Pedro Casals - Complete Keyboard Sonatas 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This from Shelest Piano Duo presents pieces for piano solo and piano four hands by Ukranian composers written between the late 19th and 21st centuries. Having established themselves as solo artists, while garnering prizes and awards along the way, the Ukrainian born husband and wife Shelest Piano Duo brings to the performance stage inventive programs of not only solo repertoire, but four hand music. First Prize winners of Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition, the Duo made their Carnegie Hall debut in 2011 and appeared at the venue annually since. Their debut album InchTutti, orchestral arrangements for piano four handsInch has been broadcasted at over 100 radio stations in North America. Anna and Dmitri reside in New York City.

Opera-comique emerged in the 19th century as an intermediary between grand opera and burlesque operetta. This album charts it's progression as a distinct genre, tracing the origins from Boieldieu and Mehul early in the century via the classic vitality of masters such as Herold and Maillart into the operetta style of Offenbach and Lecocq. With innovative features, colorful orchestration, drama, wit and atmospheric writing, the operas proved very popular and these overtures encapsulate their immense vivacity and charm.

Acclaimed as 'a most nimble and clean fingered soloist', Pedro Casals is an ideal interpreter of Manuel Blasco de Nebra' delightful keyboard music.