Fono Forum Concentrated – Giselher Schubert, December 2014 In these live recordings, Güher and Süher Pekinel are in impressive form. Their duetting is technically flawless and they achieve a unison in interpretation that seems virtually instinctual. Furthermore, there is also a…
BBC Music Magazine Calum Mac Donald … Pekinel’s turn in a very creditable performance of the sonata op. 34 by Brahms. The music is beautifully paced and articulated, performed with great emotional sympathy and ideal plasticity of phrasing…This is very…
Bayerischer Rundfunk Classical Music Portal Wolf Loeckle, 28.02.2005 …Cembalo-concertos of Bach count to the most beautiful of their repertoire. But sometimes they even sound better on the piano, especially when the piano is being played like by Turkish twin sisters…
Selection of Turkish Interviews Cumhuriyet-Pazar We talked with the world-famous piano duo Güher and Süher Pekinel about their music education systems in three different areas and the future of our world. “Humanity has always stood up with hope, despair will…
Daily Telegraph …The Pekinel sisters are Turkish identical twins. Possessed with a sixth sense, they have formed what is possibly the most intriguing piano duo now before the public. And on Monday at Wigmore Hall the playing positively brimmed over…
Klassik Heute J. S. Bach – Keyboard Concertos Peter Cosé I dare to count the Bach-recording which is mentioned here to the best productions of the last years. Elastically, inventive in the musical Alchemy of Melos and fuged eruditeness, brilliant…
Le Figaro …The sight of a personal unity divided between two ravishing personalities is fascinating. Both sisters display an unerring technical and incomparable sensitivity. The audience was, of course, overwhelmed.
Kronenzeitung …Everything was out of the ordinary! The twin pianists Güher and Süher Pekinel play the Bach Double Concerto in C-minor as one used to hear it in the good old days of Karajan. Romantically structured with powerful colours. The…
RBB Kulturradio Caroline Schönberg The twin sisters have for many years constituted a worldwide esteemed piano-duo. In their record of the Sonata for two keyboards f-minor op. 34 they prefer a clear, objective Brahms but quite with passion and full…
Rondo A Great Pleasure Michael Wersin One can develop real passion for the magic that can be created by two concert grands: especially if you talk about such a furious Duo as the Pekinels. Their strength is their perfect congruence…