Crescendo Multimedia Spectacle Rainer Aschemeier, December 2014 Previously, Arthaus Music was known exclusively as a DVD-Label. Now, however, the label heads from Halle/Saale have tried something new: their newest release comes as a DVD plus Bonus-CD with extracts of the…
Neue Zürcher Zeitung At the Lucerne Festival, Pekinel Sisters presents different possibilities for a special night with pianos Thomas Schacher, November 2017 At this years’ Lucerne piano Festival, the Turkish Twin Sisters Güher and Süher Pekinel, in the concert business…
Classical-music.com Bach at dawn in Bodrum Daniel Jaffé, 27.08.2015 Dorukhan Doruk play Bach’s Solo Suites Nos 1 and 6…The next evening we hear Doruk again, this time in a purpose-built amphitheatre near the marina, performing in a piano trio with…
Music Web J. S. Bach – Keyboard Concertos Zane Turner Among the purists are those who have a strong preoccupation with “authentic” musical performance. Music must be performed only on instruments relative to the period of composition; embellishments and repeats…
Music Web Brahms / Saint-Saens Tim Perry This new disc from Güher and Süher Pekinel offers an interesting recital programme and is well worth considering if the repertoire appeals. The first and most substantial work on the programme is Brahms’…
The Pianist Magazine Alexander Letvin … The Pekinels are widely regarded as the finest duo-pianist team since Arthur and Karl Ulrich Schnabel.
The ORFF Approach in Music Lessons The Implementation of the “ORFF-SCHULWERK” Approach in Music Lessons by Güher Pekinel, June 2016 “Orff-Schulwerk” is the idea and the concept of an artist who was a pedagogue and a teacher. The goal here is to…
The Observer Classical CD of the Month Bach Piano Concertos Anthony Holde …the disc to their considerable skills as they romp through four of Bach’s concertos for two pianos in high style with the Zürich Chamber Orchestra under Howard Griffiths.…
The Independent J. S. Bach – Keyboard Concertos Rob Cowan 7th February 2005 The idea of “trick” recording goes back to the days of 78s when Elisabeth Schumann sang in duet with herself and Heifetz played both parts of Bach’s…
Gramophone Brahms; Saint-Saëns Works for Two Pianos The sonata can hide many pitfalls but the Pekinels avoid them brilliantly Bryce Morrison, 2005 A quick glance at Warner Classics’s note reminds us that the twin sisters Güher and Süher Pekinel studied…