Duo Pleyel – Yuletide Treats (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:33 minutes | 829 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records
Yuletide is the mid-winter period from Hannuka, through Christmas, to the celebration of Twelfth Night. From the late 1950s through the 1970s it was seemingly obligatory for all artists from Jazz to Punk to make a Christmas album. With Yuletide Treats, Duo Pleyel joins that spirit and tradition, with some of the greatest classical hits for your festive delight. Comprising keyboardists Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya and Richard Egarr, Duo Pleyel begins with three beautiful, transcendental and intimate movements from Franz Liszt’s ‘Christmas Tree Suite’. Then follows ‘For unto us a child is born’ and ‘Hallelujah’ from Handel’s Messiah. No New Year’s celebration is complete without the Strauss family’s ‘Blue Danube’ and ‘Radetzky March’. Finally, they present Tchaikovsky’s ‘Nutcracker Suite’. All performed on a Chris Maene Straight Strung Concert Grand, this album is to be listened to at high volume with a large glass of something delicious.
Tracklist:
1. Duo Pleyel – Liszt: Weihnachtsbaum, S. 613: III. Die Hirten an der Krippe “In dulci jubilo” (Version for Piano Four Hands) (04:10)
2. Duo Pleyel – Liszt: Weihnachtsbaum, S. 613: VII. Schlummerlied (Version for Piano Four Hands) (03:35)
3. Duo Pleyel – Liszt: Weihnachtsbaum, S. 613: IX. Abendglocken (Version for Piano Four Hands) (05:43)
4. Duo Pleyel – Handel: Messiah, HWV 56: For unto us a child is born (Arr. for Piano Four Hands by Carl Czerny) (03:38)
5. Duo Pleyel – Handel: Messiah, HWV 56: Hallelujah (Arr. for Piano Four Hands by Carl Czerny) (03:31)
6. Duo Pleyel – Strauss II: An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 (Arr. for Piano Four Hands by Renaud de Vilbac and Duo Pleyel) (10:54)
7. Duo Pleyel – Strauss I: Radetzky-Marsch, Op. 228 (Version for Piano Four Hands) (03:13)
8. Duo Pleyel – Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (Arr. for Piano Four Hands by Eduard Langer and Duo Pleyel): I. Overture (03:23)
9. Duo Pleyel – Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (Arr. for Piano Four Hands by Eduard Langer and Duo Pleyel): II. March (02:19)
10. Duo Pleyel – Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (Arr. for Piano Four Hands by Eduard Langer and Duo Pleyel): III. Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy (01:55)
11. Duo Pleyel – Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (Arr. for Piano Four Hands by Eduard Langer and Duo Pleyel): IV. Russian Dance “Trepak” (01:14)
12. Duo Pleyel – Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (Arr. for Piano Four Hands by Eduard Langer and Duo Pleyel): V. Arabian Dance “Coffee” (03:31)
13. Duo Pleyel – Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (Arr. for Piano Four Hands by Eduard Langer and Duo Pleyel): VI. Chinese Dance “Tea” (01:02)
14. Duo Pleyel – Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (Arr. for Piano Four Hands by Eduard Langer and Duo Pleyel): VII. Dance of the Mirlitons (02:09)
15. Duo Pleyel – Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (Arr. for Piano Four Hands by Eduard Langer and Duo Pleyel): VIII. Waltz of the Flowers (06:07)
