Alessio Bax

Alessio Bax & Lucille Chung – Bax & Chung Piano Duo: Debussy and Ravel for Two (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:55 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

Their third duo album on Signum Classics, husband and wife Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung unite to bring an album of French works by Debussy and Ravel in versions for piano duo and four hands. With arrangements by Dutilleux and Ravel himself key works include ‘Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune’ for four hands and La valse for two pianos.

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Lucille Chung, Alessio Bax – Poulenc: Works for Piano Solo and Duo (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:12 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | ©

Poulenc was a skilled pianist, cultivating a style of playing characterised by colorfulness and clarity, possessing an ear for melody that distinguished him as France’s finest song composer since Fauré. Canadian pianist Lucille Chung – acclaimed for her “stylish and refined performances” by Gramophone magazine, “combining vigor and suppleness with natural eloquence and elegance” – appears as a soloist on this new recording, performing Poulenc’s Improvisations and Novelettes before being joined by her duo partner (and husband) Alessio Bax for L’embarquement pour Cythere, the Sonata for Four Hands and Concerto for Two Pianos.
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