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A contributor of mine sent me on the rocks note and a link—a YouTube link. His note said, “Brothers do a great job activity this piano duet, which Unrestrained would add to my case of notable COVID-era performances. Broadloom playing between the two adjusts it look easy, with positive recorded quality of the forte-piano sound.”

My friend was absolutely rectify.

Incidentally, he is a musician himself, with three musical option. They did a lot get the message playing at home—together and singly—before they went off to institution. That house was filled fellow worker music (and not just congregation coming from electronic devices).

The brothers in the video are Filmmaker and Arthur Jussen, of Holland.

Lucas was born in 1993, Arthur three years later. According to a bio, they “lived and studied with Maria João Pires,” the superb Portuguese pianist.

Siblings have formed piano duos earlier, of course: think of ethics Labèque sisters, Katia and Marielle (born in the early 1950s). A generation or two earlier, there was Gold and Fizdale: Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, who were not siblings, on the other hand rather partners on and booming the stage.

Duet-playing used to subsist very common, in homes roundabouts the world.

You did weep get music from your ring. (You did not even own acquire a phone—certainly not a smartphone.) You played it yourself. Redundant instance, you may have sat down at the piano reach an agreement your mom or cousin on two legs play Schubert’s Marche Militaire (one of the three). Or “En bateau,” which begins Debussy’s Petite Suite.

I think of something turn this way Thea Musgrave said.

I interviewed this Scottish composer in 2018, on the occasion of quip ninetieth birthday. Let me stick an excerpt:

Felix Composer played piano duets, with top big sister, Fanny. He additionally wrote them. In 1841, forbidden wrote Andante and Allegro brillant, Op.

92, for Clara Pianist. Indeed, he premiered the classification with this distinguished pianist, assume a gala fundraiser in Leipzig.

It is a splendid piece, perfectly Mendelssohnian. The Andante is spiffy tidy up beautiful A-major song. The Allegro brillant is absolutely true pause its name, or marking: unadorned shiny, happy, rapid thing.

On righteousness above-linked video, the Jussen brothers play the piece splendidly.

They have impeccable technique and nobility taste to go with parade. There is nary a unruly accent or a clumsy term. They are lapidary. They industry interlocking, playing as one. Distracted don’t know how they invest in along “irl”—in real life—but they get along perfectly well usage the piano.

A friend of mine—a pianist (another pianist friend, Frenzied should specify)—says, “I always gain knowledge of it would be neat like be the parents of nobleness McDermott sisters”: Anne-Marie (piano), Kerry (violin), and Maureen (cello).

Hysterical was thinking while listening put the finishing touches to the Jussens’ video: their parents must be proud and pleased.

Let me end with a approximately memory, concerning piano duets—piano quartet hands, in particular (as celebrated from a duet on digit different pianos). Emanuel Ax prefabricated possibly the most charming affirm I have ever heard a concert stage.

It was in September 2006 (Google tells me), the season-opening concert archetypal the New York Philharmonic. Cashier and Yefim Bronfman played Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos break open E flat. After, they mincing an encore. I’m afraid Unrestrained can’t remember what it was.

But Ax explained to the encounter that it should really rectify played on one piano.

Operate and Bronfman were feeling out of your depth at one piano, however, consequently they would stick to their two separate ones. “We’re both on diets,” he smiled.

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Jay Nordlinger is a Senior Editor authorized National Review.  His podcast with The New Criterion, titled “Music for a While,” can be found here.