Bartok / Mclachlan / Burke Music For Two Pianos & Percussion CD

Originally made in 2006 on limited release, this fantastic album is now available once more. Each composer represented here was an important innovator in different ways- one need only think of how The Rite of Spring shocked the world- they are also linked by a deep interest in folk music. The two major works with percussion are worthy of close comparison, with the Bartok piece being more austere and 'early-modernist' than Camilleri's rich and neo-Romantic work that appeared 70 years later. The percussive score of The Rite of Spring makes it ideal in a two-piano form, and Stravinsky himself made this transcription. The four performers are high achievers in the UK as both soloists and chamber/orchestral players, as well as in academia. Murray McLachlan, a tireless champion of new music, is now one of the most popular and prolific recording pianists if our day.

1. I. Allegro Moderato 2. II. Libero 3. III. Allegro Moderato 4. The Adoration of the Earth 5. The Augars of Spring. Dance of the Young Girls 6. Ritual of Abduction 7. Spring Sounds 8. Ritual of the Rival Tribes 9. Procession of the Sage 10. The Sage 11. Dance of the Earth 12. The Sacrifice 13. Mystic Circles of the Young Girls 14. Glorification of the Chosen One 15. Evocation of the Ancestors 16. Ritual Action (Dance) of the Ancestors 17. Sacrifical Dance (The Chosen One) 18. I. Assai Lento 19. II. Lento, Ma Non Troppo 20. III. Allegro Non Troppo