Suiten für zwei Klaviere Daisuke Miyazaki & Yoko Miyazaki

• Suite a due cembali G-Moll / Johann Mattheson (1681-1764)
• 1 Allemande 02:11
• 2 Courante 01:05
• 3 Sarabande 02:23
• 4 Gigue 01:51
• Suite für zwei Klaviere No. 3 in C-Dur, Op. 33 Variations / Anton Arenskis (1861-1906)
• 5 Thème 01:07
• 6 Dialogue 01:28
• 7 Valse 01:18
• 8 Marche Triomphale 01:23
• 9 Menuet 01:45
• 10 Gavotte 02:56
• 11 Scherzo 02:43
• 12 Marche Funèbre 03:29
• 13 Nocturne 03:15
• 14 Polonaise 03:39
• Tanzsuite für zwei Klaviere nach dem Ballett Notturno / Josef Schelb (1894-1977)
• 15 Molto animato e leggiero 02:23
• 16 Sehr ruhig 08:14
• 17 Bewegt 06:22
• 18 Lebhaft 04:28
• Total Runtime 52:00

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Daisuke and Yoko Miyazaki are the first two students to take part in the graduate program of the Stuttgart Academy of Music as a piano duo. With their debut SUITEN FÜR ZWEI KLAVIERE they prove not only their skills as virtuosic and versatile pianists. But with three Suites out of three centuries, all original pieces for two pianos, they dare an extraordinary repertoire as well. Anton Arenski’s Suite for two pianos No. 3 is an exquisite series of nine variations on a single short theme, which appears as a calm and contemplative Andante at the beginning of the work. The individual variations then develop the theme in the romantic manner, highly imaginative and full of contrasts: lyrical and elegant, powerful and triumphant, but always with sophisticated delicacy.

With the Dance Suite by Josef Schelb a further development of the Suite genre is presented; the coupling of elements from Opera or Ballet re-worked for concert presentations. This important piano work was lost and forgotten in an archive for almost half a century, before it was revived in 2008. The opening piece Suite a due Cembali by Johann Mattheson was originally composed for two harpsichords. This composition shows that Mattheson was a composer of considerable attitude, who felt obliged to adhere to his own credo of music as “the language of notes or the speech of sound”.

"The siblings Daisuke and Yoko Miyazaki, educated amongst others by Hans-Peter Stenzl in Stuttgart, play the pieces on two modern pianos and inmost unity. (...) On hears colours, shapes and approach the Apotheosis of the dance." (Johannes Adam, Badische Zeitung)

Daisuke Miyazaki, piano
Yoko Miyazaki, piano

Duo Miyazaki
After successfully studying solo piano in Japan, the young Japanese piano duo Daisuke and his sister Yoko Miyazaki have been studying with Prof. Hans-Peter Stenzl since 2009 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. In July 2011, they finished their master‘s degree with honors and completed a postgraduate study program for piano duo. They are the first two students to take part in the graduate program of the Stuttgart Academy of Music as a piano duo.

Daisuke and Yoko Miyazaki perfected their musical education by attending master classes with Prof. Hans-Peter Stenzl and Prof. Volker Stenzl in the national academy in Ochsenhausen and in Nowy Sacz in Poland.

The Miyazaki siblings have also had the chance to gat her considerable concert experience in Germany and Japan. In January 2009, they debuted as a piano duo in Tokyo. They performed in the concert series “Musikpause”, in a benefit concert in Stuttgart “Fruchtkasten am Schillerplatz”, in a special concert of the Fürst Fugger Privatbank Stuttgart as well as in an anniversary concert at the Goethe-Institut in Freiburg. They have performed in several concerts in the Stuttgart Academy of Music, such as the Brahms concert, in the anniversary concert for Hermann Keller and in the concert “Japanese Congress II”. In addition, they won a prize in the 2012 Bruno-Frey-Awards and will perform in 2013 at the laureate concert.

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