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The term piano duo can refer both to a genre of music, written for two pianists to play at either one or two pianos, or to the two pianists themselves.
This is a list of notable performers who appeared as piano duos in classical music. Most of these pianists performed works for piano four-hands (two pianists at one piano; also known as piano duet) as well as works for two pianos, often with orchestras or chamber ensembles. Some of these teams focussed exclusively or predominantly on this repertoire, but some also appeared separately as solo pianists.
Some piano duos appear under a single name (such as the Long Island Piano Duo, or Piano Pinnacle), or a unified name (such as Nettle & Markham), but the majority simply use both their names (such as Katia and Marielle Labeque or Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir).
People in this list should not be added to List of classical pianists unless they also had significant careers as solo pianists. However, if they recorded music requiring two pianists, they should be added to List of classical pianists (recorded).
List of classical piano duos
Sorting note: The main entry is sorted by the pianist whose surname appears earlier in the alphabet, and the other pianist is cross-referenced in smaller type. Where their names are usually referred to in a different order, or they use a special name for their duo, that entry appears in the 2nd column.
| Members | Name of duo (where relevant) | Notes and references |
|---|---|---|
| duo Double Piano | www.duodoublepiano.com | |
| Bizjak Piano Duo | www.bizjakpiano.com | |
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Made the world premiere recording of Grieg's treatment of Mozart piano sonatas (he composed an additional part for a second pianist, but did not change Mozart's original music, which is played by the first pianist).[1] | |
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Stephanie and Saar Duo | [4] |
| Alexander and Daykin | [5] | |
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Appleton and Field | Alan Hovhaness wrote his Symphony No. 45, Op. 342 (1954) for them, but they never played it.[2] |
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[6] | |
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Weekley and Arganbright | [7] |
| seen in either order | ||
| Vronsky & Babin | ||
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Elena Sorokina and Alexander Bakhchiev | [8] |
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[9] | |
| seen in either order | ||
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Franz Liszt Piano Duo | They have recorded Bresciani's arrangement of Liszt's Dante Sonata, and Liszt's arrangement of the Dante Symphony.[3] |
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Recorded Poulenc's complete music for 2 pianists.[4] | |
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seen in either order | [10] |
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Claire and Antoinette Cann | [11] |
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Duo Caron | |
| seen in either order | ||
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[12] | |
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Joan Ryall and June Clark | [13] |
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Goldstone and Clemmow | Made the world premiere recording of the two-piano arrangement of Grieg's Concerto in A minor, written by Grieg and Károly Thern. Also the first recording of Grieg's piano version of the "Homage March" from Sigurd Jorsalfar.[5] They have recorded the piano duet version of Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto in F minor (arr. Chopin and Carl Mikuli)[6][7] |
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Clinton/Narboni Duo | [14] |
| Richard and John Contiguglia | Made the first recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in the two-piano transcription by Franz Liszt; revived Victor Babin's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra; gave New York premiere of Max Bruch's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in A flat minor; made many world premiere recordings of works by Liszt and Bartók.[8] | |
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Coombs-Scott Piano Duo | [15] |
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Philip Moore and Simon Crawford-Phillips | In 2008, they gave the world premiere of Detlev Glanert's Two Piano Concerto, commissioned by the duo and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and conducted by Martyn Brabbins.[9] |
| Duo Crommelynk | They were a very prominent duo, founded in 1974; their three-disc set of the four-hand works of Schubert won a Grand Prix du Disque; many composers wrote works for them. They both died by suicide on 14 July 1994.[10][11] | |
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De Stefano Piano Duo | [16] |
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[17] | |
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Piano Duo Degenhardt-Kent | Recorded some George Crumb works under his supervision. World premiere recording of Zeitgeist (1988, rev. 1989); Six Tableau for Two Amplified Pianos was written for them. With Jovita Zähl, they made the first CD recording of Earle Brown's Corroboree (1964).[12] |
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Victor and Luis del Valle | [18] |
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[19] | |
| Genova & Dimitrov | The only piano duo to win all of the major prestigious international piano-duo contests. Made world premiere recording of the complete piano duo works of Shostakovitch.[13] | |
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Jordans & Van Doeselaar Piano Duo | [20] |
| Wiener et Doucet | ||
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Eaton-Young Piano Duo | They have transcribed Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov and Gilbert and Sullivan operas for piano duo, and have performed Zemlinsky's transcription of Mahler's 6th Symphony.[14] |
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Duo Egri and Pertis | [21] |
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[22] | |
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Made the premiere recording of Clara Schumann's arrangement for piano 4-hands of Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44.[15] | |
| Ferrante & Teicher | ||
| Gold and Fizdale | ||
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| Lillian and Irwin Freundlich | [23] | |
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Yoshie and Takashi | [24] |
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Gareis & Pohl | European premiere of J.Adams "Hallelujah junction" (2000) [25] |
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[26] | |
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[27] | |
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Maribeth and Bradford Gowen | [28] |
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Piano Duo GrauSchumacher | Played the world premiere of Peter Eötvös's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, a revision of his Concerto for piano and keyboard (2005).[16] |
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Piano Duo Vis-à-vis | [29] |
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Duo Tal & Groethuysen | [30] |
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[17] | |
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Margherita Malagoli and Roberto Guerra | [31] |
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[32] | |
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Duo Scarbó (formerly known as Duo Hammel-Sánchez) | [33][34] |
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Sandra Shapiro and Thomas Hecht | [35] |
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Steinbach & Helvey | [36] |
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Hernádi-Mocsári Piano Duo | Recorded works by Bartók, including a duo-piano arrangement of The Miraculous Mandarin.[18] |
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[37] | |
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Prague Piano Duo | They have recorded Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in the transcription by Bruno Walter[19], and the piano duet versions of Dvořák's New World Symphony and Smetana's Vltava from Má vlast.[20][21] |
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Piano Duo Humburger | [38] |
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Frances Veri and Michael Jamanis | [39] |
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[40] | |
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Vienna Piano Duo | [41] |
| Jacqueline Robin and Genevieve Joy | ||
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Heidi and Alfred Kanwischer | [42] |
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Nora and Raffi; also appear as the Riga Piano Duo | [43] |
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Igor and Olga Piano Duo | [44] |
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Walter and Beatriz Klien | |
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Recorded 17 CDs of all Brahms's arrangements for piano 4-hands or 2 pianos (mostly of his own music, but including Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat.[22] | |
| seen in either order | They have given first performances of works by Luciano Berio, Sylvano Bussotti, Mauricio Kagel, Karlheinz Stockhausen[23], Henri Pousseur, Luis de Pablo and Bernd Alois Zimmermann.[24] | |
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Kotlyar-Shifrin Piano Duo | [45] |
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Koshka Piano Duo | [46] |
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Valentina Lisista and Alexei Kuznetsoff | [47] |
| [48] | ||
| Rawicz and Landauer | Played mainly light classics and arrangements of existing works.[25] | |
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Thwaites and Lavender | [49] |
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Piano Duo Liva-Stregapede | They play unusual repertoire such as Saint-Saëns' 2-piano arrangement of Liszt's Sonata in B minor, and by Shostakovich's arrangement of Honegger's Symphony No. 3; performed world premieres of works by Ástor Piazzolla, unpublished versions for 2 pianos and a version for piano duo by Casella of Beethoven's 9 symphonies, and Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony.[26] |
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Sviatoslav Richter and Vassili Lobanov | [50] |
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LP Piano Duo | [51] |
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Christine and Beatrice Long | [52] |
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Longford-Brown Piano Duo | [53] |
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Whittemore and Lowe | [54] |
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Luboshutz and Nemenoff | [55] |
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[56] | |
| seen in either order | ||
| [27] | ||
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Magalhaes and Schumann Piano Duo | [57] |
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[58] | |
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Nettle & Markham | In 1985 they gave the UK premiere of Max Bruch's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in A flat minor (with Sir Charles Groves and the Hallé Orchestra) and they were the first duo to give concert performances of The Planets in Holst's own two-piano version.[28][29] |
| Marlowe Brothers | ||
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Tetsu and Masaki | [59] |
| The first duo to record the entire works for piano duo/duet by Mozart. | ||
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Morel-Nemish Duo | [60] |
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[61] | |
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[62] | |
| Nelson and Neal | ||
| seen in either order | ||
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[63] | |
| Anthony & Joseph Paratore | William Bolcom wrote his Sonata in One Movement for them; they premiered Alban Berg's transcription of Arnold Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony, Op. 9; Dave Brubeck entrusted his original two-piano music to them and they premiered his "Points on Jazz".[30] | |
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American Piano Duo | =432&type=artist LDSaudio.com |
| Pekinel sisters or Güher and Süher Pekinel | ||
| Piano 4 Hands |
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Reding and Piette | [64] |
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Irina and Maxim | [65] |
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Claviraum Piano Duo | They specialise in arrangements for two pianos by Ralenko, such as Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.[31] |
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Rostal and Schaefer | [66] |
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Schnabel formed this duo after the death of his first duo partner, his wife Helen Fogel (see Helen Fogel, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel) | |
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[67] | |
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Pas de Duo | [68] |
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Susanne and Dinis Schemann | [69] |
| Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick | Malcolm Arnold, Lennox Berkeley, Arthur Bliss, Gordon Jacob and Ralph Vaughan Williams all wrote concertos for them. | |
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Trenkner-Speidel Piano Duo | They have made world premiere CD recordings of Max Reger's arrangements of Bach's works.[32] |
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Tosheff Piano Duo | [70] |
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Tengstrand-Sun Piano Duo | [71] |
| Rose and Ottilie Sutro | The Sutro sisters have been described as "the world's first recognised duo-piano team", but Willi and Louis Thern preceded them by almost 30 years. Max Bruch wrote his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in A flat minor for them, but they never played it in its original form. | |
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Teltschik Brothers | |
| Willi and Louis Thern | Appeared in Europe from 1866. | |
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Piano Duo Zenker-Trenkner | Recorded Mahler's symphonies Nos. 6 (in the Zemlinsky arrangement) and 7 (in the Casella arrangement).[33] |
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Trimble Sisters | Arthur Benjamin wrote his best-known work, Jamaican Rhumba, for them.[34] |
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Duo Turgeon | [35] |
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[72] |
References
- ^ Sydney Conservatorium of Music
- ^ hovhaness.com
- ^ Guardian
- ^ Brown/Tanyel
- ^ Divine Art
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ Contiguglias
- ^ Moore/Crawford-Phillips
- ^ Answers.com
- ^ Pianowomen
- ^ Degenhardt/Kent
- ^ Musicians Gallery
- ^ Eaton-Young
- ^ Oehms classics
- ^ karstenwittmusikmanagement
- ^ Grunschlag
- ^ eclassical
- ^ Classics Today
- ^ Prague Piano Duo
- ^ Prague Piano Duo
- ^ Classical net
- ^ Answers.com
- ^ The Free Dictionary
- ^ Pianists Part 3
- ^ Liva-Stregapede
- ^ Charles Bodman Rae, The Music of Lutoslawski
- ^ Nettle/Markham
- ^ Nettle/Markham
- ^ Paratores
- ^ Claviraum
- ^ [3]
- ^ ArkivMusik
- ^ Pianists Part 3
- ^ TimeOut: Singapore