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Katia & Marielle Labeque

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Katia and Marielle Labeque on Their Love of Italian Design
1 Piano Concerto For Two Pianos / First Movement
2 Second Movement
3 Third Movement
4 Haven
5 El Chan / El Charco del Ingenio
6 Points of Light
7 Four Winds
8 Ballade d'Allende
9 Coyote
10 Pool of El Chan
11 Mountain
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The Labèque Sisters' new album is dedicated to American composer Bryce Dessner and Academy Award-winning film director Alejandro Gonzales Iñarittú, who created the cover art. Following in the footsteps of minimalist composers such as Glass, Adams, and Reich, Dessner composed the Concerto for Two Pianos for the sisters. Recorded in 2018 with Orchestre de Paris conducted by Matthias Pintscher, the album also includes Dessner's El Chan for two pianos, and Haven for two guitars and two pianos.

  • Glass and Cocteau find thrillingly eloquent champions in the Labeque sisters / LIMELIGHT
    Posted At: March 28, 2024 12:00 AM
    LIMELIGHT's Michael Quinn writes…..Cocteau Trilogy is a thrillingly played collation of arrangements for two pianos drawn from Francophile Philip Glass’s operatic homages to the French polymath and film director Jean Cocteau by Katia and Marielle Labèque.The siblings approach arranger Michael Riesman’s kaleidoscopic treatment of Glass’s crystalline tributes with an obvious respect for detail. And, more pers...
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  • Katia & Marielle Labeque devote their new album to the music of Philip Glass in 'Cocteau Trilogy' / radiofrance: album of the day
    Posted At: March 7, 2024 12:00 AM
    Katia and Marielle Labeque are sibling pianists renowned for their ensemble of synchronicity and energy. Their musical ambitions started at an early age and they rose to international fame with their contemporary rendition of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (one of the first gold records in classical music) and have since developed a stunning career with performances worldwide.They have played with the most pre...
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  • Labeque sisters ready for Bryce Dessner's 'Concerto for Two Pianos' at Kennedy Center / The Washington Post'
    Posted At: November 10, 2021 12:00 AM

    Katia and Marielle Labèque are regular guests with orchestras including; the Berlin Philharmonic, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Filarmonia della Scala, Philadelphia Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam  and Vienna Philharmonic. Reco...
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  • Katia and Marielle Labeque have been playing, and enlarging, the two-piano repertory for over 50 years / The New York Times
    Posted At: October 25, 2020 12:00 AM

    These Sisters Have Transformed the Piano Duo "Oh, look!" said the pianist Katia Labèque, pushing aside some neatly ironed clothes hanging on a rack. Behind the clothes, which were behind the boiler in the utility room of her home and studio here in French Basque Country, was a poster advertising concerts last year at the Philharmonie in Paris. It showed Katia and her sister, Marielle - bot...
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  • Katia and Marielle Labeque perform a new concerto for two pianos by Bryce Dessner, on Performance Today
    Posted At: April 24, 2020 12:00 AM

    Sisters Katia and Marielle Labeque have been playing as a piano duo for more than 50 years, and their playing and approach is as fresh as ever. On today's show, hear the Labeque sisters perform a new concerto for two pianos by American composer Bryce Dessner. The new album is dedicated to Dessner and Academy Award-winning film director Alejandro Gonzales Iñarittú, who...
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  • LA Phil's Hollywood Bowl open was an enchanting hoot with Katia and Marielle Labeque & actor Sean Hayes / STAGEANDCINEMA
    Posted At: July 6, 2019 12:00 AM

    Utilizing the expressive piano duo, sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque, and humorous actor Sean Hayes, LA Phil's Hollywood Bowl 2019 opening was an enchanting hoot. I was already looking forward to seeing the French pianists, having recently heard their astoundingly accessible (given some new music) CD of El Chan, which has the ladies absolutely nailing American composer Bryce Dessner's Concerto F...
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  • One glimpse at Bryce Dessner's El Chan shows you so much more / mxdwn
    Posted At: May 13, 2019 12:00 AM

    It's easy to forget that musicians have rich inner lives all to their own. Most of us are happy enough with what we get onstage and in the tone of the music, allowing that to inform our entire perception of an artist. But easy as it may be to forget their lives beyond the stage, it's similarly easy to forget that others are accomplished musicians outside of their primary group. Take for instance Bryce De...
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