Piano News Auditory Impressions Burkhardt Schaefer , January 2015 This brilliant double-CD from Turkish piano-duo Güher & Süher Pekinel is no less than a compendium of the most important works for two pianos and piano for four hands. It is…
Cumhuriyet Echoes of Istanbul Music Festival “In Poulenc’s compelling Concerto, Pekinels played in meticulous harmony.”Evin İlyasoğlu, Cumhuriyet, 20.06.2018 46. Istanbul Music Festival conjoined young musicians’ enthusiasm as much as great performances of world famous names.As a high energic series of events relished…
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.…