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Recorded at Kings Place, London, as part of the London Piano Festival 2021.

A celebration of music for two pianos, featuring Katya Apekisheva, Finghin Collins, Gabriela Montero, Charles Owen and Kathryn Stott.

Presented by Sarah Walker.

Mozart: Sonata in D for two pianos, K488
Katya Apekisheva, Finghin Collins, pianos

Schubert: Fantasie in F minor, D940
Gabriela Montero, Finghin Collins, piano duet

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
Charles Owen, Kathryn Stott, piano duet

Sally Beamish: Sonnets (UK premiere)
Katya Apekisheva, Finghin Collins, Charles Owen, pianos

Rachmaninoff: Suite No. 2 in C minor for two pianos, Op. 17
Gabriela Montero, Kathryn Stott, pianos

Poulenc: Capriccio (after ‘Le bal Masqué’), FP 155
Élégie (en accords alternés), FP 175
L’embarquement pour Cythère, FP 150
Charles Owen, Katya Apekisheva, pianos

Grainger: Fantasy on Themes from Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess
Kathryn Stott, Finghin Collins, pianos

The Two Piano Gala forms the heart of the London Piano Festival where five internationally acclaimed pianists will team up in various formations to celebrate the joys, challenges and sheer brilliance of pianistic collaboration. The varied selection of music spans three centuries ranging from works by Mozart and Schubert via Rachmaninoff and Poulenc. Sonnets, a brand new commission by Sally Beamish will feature six hands depicting an intricate Shakespearian love triangle in the time of plague.