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The Vibrant Recordings

Musiktheater The Vibrant Recordings Reinmar Wagner Do the Piano Duos have to be sisters like Pekinels or Labèques? Or at least couples like Soós-Haag or Tal-Groethuysen? Duos like Martha Argerich with Nelson Freire prove that it also functions without marriage…

The Best Recording

The Best Recording The official website of BBC Music Magazine  We select the greatest recordings of Saint-Saëns’s musical menagerie Güher & Süher Pekinel (piano)Radio France PO/Marek Janowski (1990)Warner Apex 25646 21252 Submitted by: Freya Parr  /   6 March 2019 Saint-Saëns…

“Treasures” Robert Cummings

“Treasures” Robert Cummings Treasures Güher & Süher Pekinel (pianos) Video formats: Sound: PCM Stereo; Picture: 16:9 ARTHAUS MUSIK Blu-ray/DVD/CD 109366 [13 discs: 1034 mins] This thirteen-disc Arthaus Musik box set is one of those massive collections that will be coveted mainly…

“Treasures” Review by Martin Hoffmeister

“Treasures” Review by Martin Hoffmeister “Treasures” Review by Martin Hoffmeister MDR Figaro 01.03.2019. The accomplishments of an internationally highly regarded Piano Duo are rarely extensively documented: The 7 CDs, 4 DVDs and 2 Blu-Rays present innumerable artistic milestones of wide…

Strong Hands – The Duo Pekinel

Pizzicato’s interview with the Pekinel Duo Strong Hands – The Duo Pekinel Arthaus honours Pekinel Piano Duo with exclusive box! Since many years, the Güher & Süher Pekinel Piano Duo attracts exceptional attention in the international music scene. Their orchestral…

Bärenreiter

Bärenreiter “The Pianists”– published by Bärenreiter October 2013 There are more than a few siblings-partners among famous piano duos in the past and the present – the Kontarskys, the Paratores, and Labèques, just to name a few of them. As…

Deutschlandfunk

Deutschlandfunk Norbert Ely … You insert the disc and get immediately fascinated of the great line which dominates here, from the free breath and the sovereignty through which they control the score on the Pianoforte up into the last finenesses…

Audiophile Audition

Audiophile Audition Zubin Mehta and Güher & Süher Pekinel in Concert DVD + CD (2014) John Sunier, 30.10.2014 Performers: Güher & Süher Pekinel, duo-pianists; Zubin Mehta conducting Orch. del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (in Bartok)Lorenzo D’Attoma & Fausto Cesare Bombardier, percussion…

Luzerner Zeitung

Luzerner Zeitung Tweens merge together without eye contact, Piano-Festival: Shining stars, Güher and Süher Pekinel duo. Gerda Neunhoeffer, November 2017 Piano duo Güher and Süher Pekinel convinced with their intuitive interplay at the KKL-Concert Hall. On the world’s stages for 40…

Andante

Andante Aydın Büke , January 2015 Commissioned by the Basel Chamber Orchestra conductor Paul Sacher in 1936, Béla Bartók aimed to compose his piece Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, for instrument groups that, to date, were very rarely used…