2 Pianists In Supple, Flowing Dialogue.

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      NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State)
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      CHEN, Yi, 1953-; GLASS, Philip, 1937-
    • Abstract:
      Classical music has been treated as a poor relation at the Lincoln Center Festival in recent summers, but this year the tally was down to one: a program of contemporary works for two pianos performed by Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa at Alice Tully Hall on Saturday, the next-to-last night of the festival. Lincoln Center apparently considered even that much to be heavy lifting. The concert was presented as a collaboration with the Ruhr Piano Festival in Germany, which commissioned the works by Chen Yi and Philip Glass that made up the second half of the program. Mr. Davies, though best known as a conductor, is also a fine pianist, and he has been playing duo recitals with Ms. Namekawa since 2003. A memorable concert at the Miller Theater in 2005 was also devoted to modern music, but their repertory includes Zemlinsky's four-hand arrangements of Mozart's ''Magic Flute'' and Beethoven's ''Fidelio.'' They have recorded both, and a contemporary American program, for the Ruhr festival's label, Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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