Enchanting tales and timeless legends are the common threads running through this album conceived by Duo Jatekok: NaÃ¯ri Badal and AdelaÃ¯de Panaget are transformed into sorceresses on four hands and two pianos - enchanting guides who lead us through a programme featuring a Faustian pact, magic, and the world of childhood. At it's heart is Liszt's Piano Sonata, brilliantly transcribed for two keyboards by Saint-Saens: 'It illustrates the eternal struggle between the hubris of excess and the tragic fall, between light and darkness', say the duo of this 'Faustian' masterpiece by Liszt, a great admirer of Goethe. In a more carefree but equally fantastical vein is the famous Sorcerer's Apprentice, which Paul Dukas himself transcribed in 1898. The trance-like atmosphere and frenzied dancing continues with Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo (Love the magician). Finally, Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain, a 'danse macabre between the world of the living and that of the spirits', rounds off this supernatural odyssey.

Tracklist:

Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Lento assai
Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Grandioso
Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Cantando espressivo
Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Pesante
Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Andante sostenuto - Quasi adagio
Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Allegro energico
Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~PiÃ¹ mosso
Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Cantando espressivo senza slentare
Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Stretto quasi presto
Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Andante
Amour Sorcier: Rituel du feu. Allegro ma non troppo e pesante
Apprent Sorcier~Assez lent
Apprent Sorcier~Vif
Apprent Sorcier~A tempo
Apprent Sorcier~Plus retenu
Apprent Sorcier~A tempo
Nuit sur Le Mont Chauve~Allegro feroce
Nuit sur Le Mont Chauve~PiÃ¹ sostenuto
Nuit sur Le Mont Chauve~Con fuoco
Nuit sur Le Mont Chauve~Poco meno mosso

UPC: 3701624510834
Label: Alpha
Release Date: 11.1.24
Format: CD

Dukas / Liszt / Jatekok - Sorcellerie (CD)