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Title: Duets
Post by: eightyeightkeys on December 19, 2015, 07:57:45 AM: Recommend any great piano duets?
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Post by: mjames on December 19, 2015, 11:34:03 AM: nocturne op. 27 no. 2

schubert fantasie f minor
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Post by: chopinlover01 on December 19, 2015, 05:18:26 PM: Schubert Fantasy in F minor, Brahms Hungarian Dances, there's some Mozart for four hands IIRC, and Bach duos (not the same thing, but similar; you just need two instruments).
Title: Re: Duets
Post by: awesom_o on December 19, 2015, 05:33:55 PM: Quote from: eightyeightkeys on December 19, 2015, 07:57:45 AM
Recommend any great piano duets?

You're in luck.... duet playing is my specialty!

In nonalphabetical order:

Mozart's 38th, 40th and 41st Symphonies

Respighi's The Pines of Rome

Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and the Octet for Strings in Eb+,

Dvorak Slavonic Dances and the New World Symphony,

Debussy Petite Suite,

Ravel Mother Goose Suite,

Faure Dolly Suite,

Rachmaninoff 2nd Symphony,

Tchaikovsky 5th Symphony,

Grieg Peer Gynt Suites 1 and 2, also the Holberg Suite,

Schubert Grand Duo Sonata

Smetana's The Moldau, from Ma Vlast.

You can also play the Max Reger arrangements of all of the Brandenburg Concertos.

The Symphonies of Shostakovich, Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, Bruckner, and many others, are also available to play for four-hand ensemble.

All of this repertoire is highly advanced, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't fairly serious about playing piano ensemble at the professional level.
Title: Re: Duets
Post by: rubinsteinmad on December 19, 2015, 07:14:51 PM: That is a Concerto for two Pianos (and No Orchestra.) by Liszt.

Debussy's transcription of Saint-saens' Introduction et Rondo Cappricioso.
Title: Re: Duets
Post by: chopinlover01 on December 20, 2015, 03:38:43 AM: Quote from: awesom_o on December 19, 2015, 05:33:55 PM
You're in luck.... duet playing is my specialty!
We're in luck; you're back!!
Title: Re: Duets
Post by: awesom_o on December 20, 2015, 01:47:14 PM: Quote from: rubinsteinmad on December 19, 2015, 07:14:51 PM

That is a Concerto for two Pianos (and No Orchestra.) by Liszt.

Debussy's transcription of Saint-saens' Introduction et Rondo Cappricioso.

Both of these are DUOS, and not DUETS.

Thank you for drawing my attention to the Debussy transcription of Saint-Saens! It is one of my favourite pieces in the violin repertoire, and one of my favourite of Saint-Saens' compositions in general. I didn't know Debussy transcribed it. My partner and I will do well with this one!
Title: Re: Duets
Post by: awesom_o on December 20, 2015, 01:49:27 PM: Quote from: chopinlover01 on December 20, 2015, 03:38:43 AM
We're in luck; you're back!!

I've always been around, but there are long periods during which my time is consumed by my day job, so I post rather sporadically in bursts.
Title: Re: Duets
Post by: visitor on December 20, 2015, 04:14:31 PM
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Post by: visitor on December 20, 2015, 04:21:14 PM
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Post by: visitor on December 20, 2015, 04:24:13 PM
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Post by: visitor on December 20, 2015, 04:30:25 PM
Title: Re: Duets
Post by: rubinsteinmad on December 20, 2015, 08:25:39 PM: Quote from: awesom_o on December 20, 2015, 01:47:14 PM

Both of these are DUOS, and not DUETS.

Oh, OK! I didn't know that; thanks for informing me! I'll remember next time. ;)
Title: Re: Duets
Post by: visitor on December 21, 2015, 01:31:27 PM: 01 - Lundu (Francisco Mignone)
02 - Duas modinhas
Azulão (José Alberto - Kaplan)
Casinha pequenina (Tradicional)
03 - Duas miniaturas
Cirandinha (O. Maul)
Polka antiga (O. Maul)
04 - Seresta opus um (Aylton Escobar)
05 - Brasiliana Nº 4
Dobrado (Osvaldo Lacerda)
Embolada (Osvaldo Lacerda)
Seresta (Osvaldo Lacerda)
Candomblé (Osvaldo Lacerda)
06 - Sarau de Sinhá
Schottish (Aloysio de Alencar Pinto)
Polca (Aloysio de Alencar Pinto)
Romance (Aloysio de Alencar Pinto)
Contradança (Aloysio de Alencar Pinto)
Valsa (Aloysio de Alencar Pinto)
Noturno (Aloysio de Alencar Pinto)
Capricho (Aloysio de Alencar Pinto)
Lundu (Aloysio de Alencar Pinto)
Recitativo (Aloysio de Alencar Pinto)
Galope (Aloysio de Alencar Pinto)
Title: Re: Duets
Post by: visitor on December 21, 2015, 01:40:51 PM: Bizet op 22 has a lot of great stuff going for it!