Dual Pianos Take the Stage at Cleveland Orchestra Concert

Photo by Stefania Paparelli

Fri 11/26 @ 7:30PM

Sat 11/27 @ 8PM

Over almost a half century, French sister pianists Katia & Marielle Labèque have cultivated an international reputation, performing a huge variety of music: classical, jazz (their breakout album was their 1980 recording of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue), experimental contemporary music, baroque period music, flamenco, pop music and more. They’ve recorded Messiaen, Brahms, Lizst, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Bernstein, Dvorak, Rachmaninoff and Satie.

When they return to Cleveland for a program called “French Perspectives” with the Cleveland Orchestra, they’ll be performing a work they commissioned, the 2018 Concerto for Two Pianos, written by Cincinnati native Bryce Dessner, one of the core members of rock band The National. They’ll open with French composer Maurice Ravel’s “Suite of Five Pieces from Ma Mère l’Oye [Mother Goose],” an orchestrated piano duet written by Ravel in 1910-11. The program concludes with Cesar Franck’s  Symphony in D Minor. Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno, music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor of the Luxembourg Philharmonic, will be on the podium.

There’s a pre-concert talk each night an hour prior to the concert in the Reinberger Chamber Hall, with John Carroll University instructor Lorenzo Salvagini.

Go here for tickets.

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