Duo Jatekok – Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux – Poulenc: Double Concerto (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Duo Jatekok – Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux – Poulenc: Double Concerto (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:20 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Alex Vizorek revisits Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals. The French composer never imagined that his bestiary would become one of the most famous works in musical history, a staple repertory piece on a par with Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. The Belgian comedian and actor has rewritten the text of this “grand zoological fantasy”, which he narrates here alongside Duo Jatekok and the Orchestre National de Lille under the direction of Lucie Leguay.

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Duo Jatekok – Les Boys (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Duo Jatekok – Les Boys (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:05:20 minutes | 917 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

The piano duo formed by Arthur Gold (1917–90) and Robert Fizdale (1920–95) enjoyed immense fame in the post-war years. Poulenc wrote a piece for them, as did Darius Milhaud, Samuel Barber, Luciano Berio and John Cage. They recorded with Leonard Bernstein. Nicknamed “The Boys”, they played all over the world and were praised for their ‘seamless perfection and an inimitable “joie de vivre” (New York Times). The Boys were also famed for their bestselling books and television programmes on cooking, their other passion! Duo Jatekok (játékok =”games” in Hungarian) was formed in 2007. Like The Boys and unlike most current piano duos, Adélaïde Panaget and Naïri Badal are not siblings, but childhood friends. “They have everything going for them: dynamic rigour and expressive energy, exuberant keyboard skills and multilingual touch, and more than anything else, a sort of jubilatory osmosis”, wrote Le Monde. For this first recording on Alpha, they have decided to pay tribute to “The Boys” with a programme of works written for them, Poulenc’s Sonata for two pianos and Élégie and a composition by a legend of jazz, the American pianist Dave Brubeck, Points of Jazz. Duo Jatekok also wanted to include music by one of their contemporaries: Baptiste Trotignon’s Trois Pièces (including one dedicated to Poulenc!) complete the programme.

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Duo Jatekok – Duo Jatekok plays Rammstein (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Duo Jatekok – Duo Jatekok plays Rammstein (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:02 minutes | 678 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Vertigo Berlin

Imaginative and passionate pianists Naïri Badal and Adélaïde Panaget are in the same category of great duos as the Labèque sisters, and are currently THE French piano duo making their mark in France as well as internationally. in 2007, the two formed the duo Jatekok (“Jatekok” Hungarian for “games”). Following in the footsteps of their critically acclaimed albums “Danses”, “The Boys” and “Carnaval”, they offer a musical cocktail full of dynamics and expressiveness at each of their concerts, which is now reflected in their new album “Duo Jatekok plays Rammstein”. in 2019, they were already the opening act on Rammstein’s European stadium tour.

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