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Anderson & Roe | WHEN WORDS FADE | Trailer
Anderson & Roe | DER ERLKONIG | Steinway Piano Factory
Carmen Fantasy for Two Pianos (ANDERSON & ROE)
Anderson & Roe - Mother (At the recording)
1 Jackson: Billie Jean  
2 Vivaldi: 'Tieteberga, RV 737'/ Sento in seno  
3 Anderson: Fantasy on arias from Mozart's Die Zaub.  
4 Bizet: Carmen Fantasy  
5 Schubert: Der Erlkonig, D 328  
6 Rachmaninov: 'Songs(14), Op.34'/ #14, Vocalise  
7 Anderson: Mathilde, Marieke, et Madeleine  
8 Schumann: 'Liederkreis, Op.39'/ 5. Mondnacht  
9 Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras #5  
10 Radiohead: Paranoid Android  
11 Arne: 'English Cantatas(6)'/ #5, The Morning  
12 Coldplay: Viva la Vida  
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When Words Fade, a song sheds its specific narrative-but the emotion remains with all its potency. You, the listener, are free to infuse the music with your own personal meaning. We challenge you to do so as you listen to this collection of vocal music we've reimagined for a wordless medium: the piano duo.

When words fade, we are left with the heart of the matter, the essential truths unmitigated by the approximations of verbal expression. Words may comprise our main mode of communication, but they often fall short in embodying our innermost emotions, thoughts, and imaginings. This is where music enters: in the spaces between, in the silence. Music captures the ineffable, and that is why it is so undeniably powerful-it gives our deepest and often subconscious feelings shape and flow, as well as a beating, singing heart.

Or, when words fade, and the sun goes down, we enter a world of darkness and romance, hallucinations and dreams. This album reflects the spectrum of life through a nocturnal lens. In the night, we all face our shadow selves, the demons that lurk in our psyche, the secret aspirations that gleam like stars, and the passions that blaze like fireworks. As you listen to this album, escape the mundane and leap into the music's revelations. – Greg Anderson & Elizabeth Joy Roe

  • Two grand for words as Music Academy launches first of its Mariposa Series w/Anderson and Roe / the Montecito JOURNAL
    Posted At: November 7, 2023
    Known for their adrenalized performances, original compositions, and notorious music videos, GREG ANDERSON and ELIZABETH JOY ROE are revolutionizing the piano duo experience for the 21st century. Described as “the most dynamic duo of this generation” (San Francisco Classical Voice), “rock stars of the classical music world” (Miami Herald), and “the very model of complete 21st-century musicians” (The Washing...

  • BSO season opener thrills crowd with colorful performance by Anderson and Roe / The Laurel Outlook
    Posted At: September 19, 2023
    Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe bring playful performance style to the BSO’s opening night.The Laurel Outlook's JACI WEBB writes….There is something thrilling about hearing voices rising up to fill a theater with the words of the Star Spangled Banner.It also helps that many of the vocalists who gloriously filled the Alberta Bair Theater last Saturday night with the national anthem are members of the Bil...

  • Gregory Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe mark Chan Centre's 25th anniversary / stir
    Posted At: February 27, 2023
    Known for stylized videos, Anderson & Roe Piano Duo is determined to make classical music accessiblestir's GAIL JOHNSON writes….Chan Centre for the Performing Arts presents Anderson & Roe Piano Duo: 25th Anniversary Celebration on March 4 at 8 pm at Chan Shun Concert HallDURING GREG ANDERSON and Elizabeth Joy Roe’s two decades together as a musical pair, they have self-produced phenomenal music vide...

  • Anderson & Roe Piano Duo set for UGA Performing Arts Center / flagpole
    Posted At: September 14, 2022
    flagpole's Gordon Lamb writes…..EBONY & IVORY: The UGA Performing Arts Center is deep in the midst of its 2022–2023 season, and coming up this week is a widely anticipated performance from the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo. Composed of the Julliard-trained Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe, this is the first time they’ll perform for UGA. Currently celebrating two decades together, the pair will perform...

  • Anderson and Roe: RLPO - Mozart 'Concerto for Two Pianos' was electrifying / theartsdesk
    Posted At: October 6, 2018

    There must be something of a beauty parade going on in Liverpool now that Vasily Petrenko has called time on his tenure at Philharmonic Hall.  After all, someone will need to step into his shoes from 2021 after he departs for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was refreshing, therefore, to welcome Anu Tali to conduct the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, making her debut with the orchestra. She's cond...

  • Anderson and Roe set for Bay Area dates / The Mercury News
    Posted At: May 31, 2018

    The music world is rife with competition, but when Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe met as piano students at the Juilliard School in 2002, they decided to pair up and launch their careers as a duo. Since then, Anderson and Roe have earned acclaim in concerts and appearances on MTV, PBS, NPR and the BBC, released four albums on the Steinway label, and reached millions of viewers with their vivacious Yo...

  • Anderson and Roe's pyrotechnics dazzle at Kennedy Center / Washington Post
    Posted At: February 5, 2018

    Since first collaborating in the early 2000s as Juilliard classmates, piano duo Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe have made a career out of performing and composing together, elevating four-hand keyboard music into an art form. While each is a virtuosic powerhouse pianist in his and her own right, what sets the pair apart is an ability to make emotional and spiritual connections with their audiences, n...

  • Minnesota Beethoven Festival brings Anderson and Roe to Winona / La Crosse Tribune
    Posted At: July 1, 2017

    For more than two weeks this month, Winona and Carnegie Hall will have something in common. They'll both host some of the world's greatest classical artists. The Minnesota Beethoven Festival - in its 11th season - will feature top names in the classical scene, including violinist Joshua Bell, choral director Dale Warland, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Anderson and Roe piano duo among many ot...

  • Red River Radio spotlights Shreveport Symphony w/Anderson & Roe
    Posted At: October 23, 2016

    Kermit Poling spoke with Shreveport Symphony - Music Director Michael Butterman and guest artists Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe about the Saturday, October 22 Riverview Theater concert. They will perform Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos and Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. The concert also includes Rusty Air in Carolina by Mason Bates and Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite. Then on ...

  • Boulder Philharmonic opens season with Anderson & Roe / Boulder Weekly review
    Posted At: October 17, 2016

    It sounds just like Boulder: "a mixture of cheeky irreverence and sophistication, elegant and raucous." That's conductor Michael Butterman describing the first piece of the Boulder Philharmonic's 2016-17 season - Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos. Soloists for the concerto will be the duo pianists Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe. After the Poulenc, Roe will return to the stage alo...

  • Anderson and Roe set for Boulder Phil opener / Boulder Daily Camera
    Posted At: September 30, 2016

    For the Oct. 8 Boulder Philharmonic 2016-17 season opener at Macky Auditorium, pianists Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe, will play the 1932 Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor by French composer Francis Poulenc. Besides Mozart's well-known two-piano concerto in E-flat, the Poulenc work is about the only other standard for piano duo and orchestra. Because its three movements only last abo...

  • Anderson and Roe set for UC Davis - Pitzer Center / San Francisco Classical Voice
    Posted At: September 23, 2016

    Elizabeth Joy Roe is two hands of the four-hand "piano band," Anderson & Roe Piano Duo. Greg Anderson and Liz Roe: two millennials from Juilliard who've made it big, and as Roe puts it - and humbly - never had to go through the "modest gig stage," never did weddings and malls, never did "background music," but went straight to Carnegie Hall.  And then to music videos. And now here they are after...

  • Anderson & Roe play Bach and Radiohead at the Carmel Bach Festival / Monterey County Weekly
    Posted At: August 1, 2016

    The under-40 set makes up about 10 percent of the audience at the Sunset Center Thursday night. That's pretty impressive for the Carmel Bach Festival, which in the words of spokesman Scott Seward has been "actively seeking to recruit younger listeners." It's also a testament to the buzz around piano duo Anderson & Roe. It makes sense that Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe, millennials themselve...

  • Anderson & Roe play Olympic Music Festival / Seattle Times
    Posted At: July 25, 2015

    The first query on the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo's Frequently Asked Questions "personal" list is "Are you two married … or is your relationship strictly professional?" The answer is no … and no. The subject naturally arises from the exceptionally intimate performances shared by longtime best friends and musical partners Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe, who will undoubtedly knock out ...

  • Anderson & Roe know 'When Words Fade'
    Posted At: June 18, 2013

    The piano duo Anderson & Roe's first release for the Steinway label is 'When Words Fade.' The arrangements include vocal music for piano, 4-hands or two pianos, and ranges from the Baroque to Coldplay. They understand their instruments completely and know how to get just what they want out of them. Most of Anderson & Roe's arrangements not only show off the duo's talent, but s...

  • Words Fade with Anderson & Roe
    Posted At: August 15, 2012

    Piano duo Anderson & Roe challenge listeners to take on their lyric-less music and infuse unique meaning to each composition on their new album When Words Fade. When Words Fade features 12 new arrangements of vocal music espousing the wonders of the night challenging listeners to "escape the mundane and leap into the music's revelations." With works by composers Vivaldi and Sc...
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