Monument: Bach/ Kurtág & Bartók Yin-Yang piano duo

• 1 Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 633 a (Transcription for Two Pianos By György Kurtág) 01:28
• 2 Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 611 (Transcription for Two Pianos By György Kurtág) 01:25
• 3 Christe, du Lamm Gottes, BWV 619 a (Transcription for Two Pianos By György Kurtág) 01:02
• 4 Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 4b, BB 122 (Transcription of Orchestral Suite No. 2, Op. 4, BB 40): I. Serenata 06:29
• 5 Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 4b, BB 122 (Transcription of Orchestral Suite No. 2, Op. 4, BB 40): II. Allegro diabolico 08:36
• 6 Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 4b, BB 122 (Transcription of Orchestral Suite No. 2, Op. 4, BB 40): III. Scena della Puszta 08:08
• 7 Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 4b, BB 122 (Transcription of Orchestral Suite No. 2, Op. 4, BB 40): IV. Per finire 06:48
• 8 O Lamm Gottes unschuldig, BWV 618 (Transcription for Two Pianos By György Kurtág) 02:19
• 9 Gott, durch deine Güte, BWV 600 (Transcription for Two Pianos By György Kurtág) 00:58
• 10 Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599 (Transcription for Two Pianos By György Kurtág) 01:13
• 11 Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gottes-Sohn, BWV 601 (Transcription for Two Pianos By György Kurtág) 01:18
• 12 Két Kép, Two Images, Op. 10, BB 59 (Transcription for Two Pianos by Zoltán Kocsis): I. Virágzás 07:14
• 13 Két Kép, Two Images, Op. 10, BB 59 (Transcription for Two Pianos by Zoltán Kocsis): II. A falu tánca 09:02
• 14 Dies sind die heil'gen zehn Gebot', BWV 635 (Transcription for Two Pianos By György Kurtág) 00:53
• 15 Alle Menschen müssen sterben, BWV 643 (Transcription for Two Pianos By György Kurtág) 01:12
• 16 Aus tiefer Not schrei' ich zu dir, BWV 687 (Transcription for Two Pianos By György Kurtág) 03:04
• 17 Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614 (Transcription for Two Pianos By György Kurtág) 02:02
• 18 Seven Pieces for Two Pianos from Mikrokosmos, BB 120 (Transcription of Mikrokosmos, BB 105): I. Bulgarian Rythm 01:10
• 19 Seven Pieces for Two Pianos from Mikrokosmos, BB 120 (Transcription of Mikrokosmos, BB 105): II. Chord and Trill Study 01:06
• 20 Seven Pieces for Two Pianos from Mikrokosmos, BB 120 (Transcription of Mikrokosmos, BB 105): III. Perpetuum mobile 00:59
• 21 Seven Pieces for Two Pianos from Mikrokosmos, BB 120 (Transcription of Mikrokosmos, BB 105): IV. Short Canon and Its Inversion 00:50
• 22 Seven Pieces for Two Pianos from Mikrokosmos, BB 120 (Transcription of Mikrokosmos, BB 105): V. New Hungarian Folk Song 00:56
• 23 Seven Pieces for Two Pianos from Mikrokosmos, BB 120 (Transcription of Mikrokosmos, BB 105): VI. Chromatic Invention 01:06
• 24 Seven Pieces for Two Pianos from Mikrokosmos, BB 120 (Transcription of Mikrokosmos, BB 105): VII. Ostinato 02:23
• 25 Christe, du Lamm Gottes, BWV 619 b (Transcription for Two Pianos By György Kurtág) 00:56
• 26 Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig, BWV 644 (Transcription for Two Pianos By György Kurtág) 00:45
• 27 Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 633 b (Transcription for Two Pianos By Görgy Kurtág) 01:26
• Total Runtime 01:14:48

Info for Monument: Bach/ Kurtág & Bartók

After La Valse à mille temps (FUG 577), Jan Michiels and Inge Spinette (the Yin-Yang Duo) return with a new two-piano programme for Fuga Libera. 'This recording pays tribute to Bach, Bartók and Kurtág, and also to two legendary piano duos: Dittá and Béla Bartók, and Márta and György Kurtág. We don't compose music ourselves; that's why we have composed... a programme; with a 'monument' by Bartók - one of the greatest pianists of his time - accompanied by Bach chorales in a Kurtágian landscape...' (Jan Michiels).

A recording that highlights the strength of the union of two minds, which - like Dittá and Béla Bartók, Márta and György Kurtág, and... Inge Spinette and Jan Michiels - can phrase music with a rare degree of intensity and acuity.

Inge Spinette, piano
Jan Michiels, piano

Inge Spinette
has been rehearsal pianist at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie since 1992, first under Antonio Pappano, and since 2003 under Kazushi Ono.This has given her the opportunity to work with singers of international reputation and to play at concerts, notably during the Rencontres Musicales.

She is also in charge of lessons in melody accompaniment at the Flemish Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where she obtained her superior Diploma of piano. She underwent a specialisation at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, essentially in melody and opera accompaniment. In parallel, she followed masterclasses with Graham Johnson, Martin Isepp, Dalton Baldwin, Roger Vignoles and Helmut Deutsch. She herself accompanied masterclasses of Lucienne Van Deyck, Vera Rosza, Grace Bumbry, Tom Krause, Andreas Scholl, Raina Kabaivanska, Suzanne Eken, Sarah Walker, Sir Donald McIntyre, Gérard Souzay, Stuart Burrows and Udo Reinemann. Inge Spinette regularly plays with singers and in chamber music concerts, in Belgium and abroad. She s been heard at the Flanders Festival, at the Festival de Wallonie, at deSingel, November Music, transit, Flagey and Klara, for the RTBF and also on foreign radios. She also collaborated on the Mozart/concertaria s production of Rosas, a dance company, for the pianoforte parts.

Her discography includes several recordings of four-hand piano works of Mozart (on a Walter pianoforte), of Shubert (on a Graft pianoforte), of Debussy (on a Erard), of Brahms (on a Bösendorfer), of Kurtág and of Goeyvaerts, as well as Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion of Bartók with pianist Jan Michiels (in pianoduo YIN-YANG). Her close collaboration with baritone Jan Vandercrabben was rewarded by a Grand Prix du Disque Lyrique 2001 in recognition of their recording of melodies by Debussy, Fauré and Duparc. A CD with Goethe Lieder by Hugo Wolf with tenor Yves Saelens was published at Eufoda in 2004, followed this year by a CD of melodies by Gabriel Fauré with baritone Jan Vandercrabben. In June 2005, she had the honour of accompanying José van Dam during a concert at la Monnaie.In 2006 a second CD with Jan Vandercrabben appeared with Fuga Libera and recently a CD with Yves Saelens with Romances of P.Tosti. In 2008-2009 she’ll accompany a serie of recitals with the soprano Hendrickje Van Kerkhove, who is elected as “Rising Star”, all through Europe. (Concertgebouw-Amsterdam, Bozar-Brussels, Musikverhein-Wien, Madrid, Athens, …)

Jan Michiels
studied with Abel Matthys at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. From 1988 to 1993 he studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin under the direction of Hans Leygraf - he was awarded an exceptional distinction for his interpretations of Bartók's Second concerto for piano and Ligeti's Etudes. He was Tenuto-laureate in 1988 ; in 1989 he won the international E.Durlet competition. In 1991 he was laureate of the international Queen Elizabeth Competition. In 1992 he was awarded the JeM/ Cera prize for musicians and in 1996 he was signed up as festival star of the Flanders Festival. He is also laureate of the 'Gouden Vleugels/KBC Muziekprijs' 2006.

Jan Michiels is currently active as piano professor in the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, where he also led the class of contemporary music for eight years. He conducted masterclasses in London, Murcia, Hamburg, Oslo, Montepulciano, Szombathely (Bartokfestival). He was jury member in several competitions (Brussels, Bolzano, ...). He obtained in 2011 a doctorate in the arts (with greatest distinction) by performing a 'teatro dell'ascolto', inspired by the 'New Prometheus' of Luigi Nono. He regularly performs as a soloist or with chamber music ensembles (a.o. the Piano Quartet "Tetra Lyre" and a piano duo "YIN-YANG" with Inge Spinette) in several musical centres in Europe and Asia, with conductors such as Angus, Asbury, Baudo, Blunier, Boreycko, Edwards, Eötvös, Guerrero, Holliger, Latham-Koenig, Kamu, Meylemans, Nézet-Séguin, Ono, Pfaff, Rahbari, Rundel, Soustrot, Stern, Tabachnik, Tamayo, Zagrosek, Zender - but also with dance-productions of Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker, Vincent Dunoyer and Sen Hea Ha. His repertoire reaches from Bach to today. Apart from his many radio recordings, he also recorded cd's with works from a.o. Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Busoni, Debussy, Dvorák, Janácek, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Ligeti, Kurtág and Goeyvaerts (these three last composers appreciated very much his interpretations). The cd 'Via Crucis' - a Liszt-portrait (Eufoda) - received a Caeciliaprize in 2002. He realized different complete cycles: on the concert stage all Beethoven sonatas, all pianoworks of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, the complete works for piano by Ligeti and the complete chamber music with piano of Johannes Brahms.

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