Christina & Michelle Naughton, piano duo
Saturday, December 4, 2021 | 8:00 pm
Chamber Arts Series
Baldwin Auditorium
Duke Performances’ Chamber Arts Series subscriptions are now on sale. Single tickets, including $10 Duke student tickets, go on sale Tuesday, August 31 at 11 AM.
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The first piano duo in history to receive Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Career Grant, Christina and Michelle Naughton are stellar orchestral soloists and “master-pianists” (Gramophone), who “have to be heard to be believed” (Washington Post). The pair return to Duke Performances with some of the most dynamic and challenging works in the repertoire, all of which were initially written for other forces: Grieg added the additional second piano part to Mozart’s Sonata No. 16, while Ravel himself transcribed his own orchestral work — originally conceived as a ballet — into a two-piano reduction. When Beethoven refused to translate Große Fuge into a four-hand piano arrangement, the publisher called upon Anton Haim to complete the task. Intensely disliking the transcription, Beethoven then drafted his own fiendishly difficult arrangement, which the Naughton sisters tackle in this concert.
— Freya Parr
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Current Duke Performances COVID-19 regulations
Program
Mozart: Sonata K. 521 in C major for four hands
Beethoven: Große Fuge
Intermission
Adams: Roll over Beethoven
Ravel: La Valse for two pianos
Christina & Michelle Naughton play John Adams's Short Ride in a Fast Machine (arranged for 4 hands)
“The textures shimmer like pure gold in bright light, dancing in every conceivable rhythm. They have to be heard to be believed”