Anthony & Joseph Paratore

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Anthony & Joseph Paratore is the name of an internationally known piano duo consisting of the brothers Anthony Paratore (born June 17, 1944 ) and Joseph Paratore (born March 19, 1948 ). The pianists play a large part of the repertoire for two pianos and piano four hands , including works with orchestra and arrangements of orchestral works.

Career

Anthony and Joseph Paratore were born in Boston into a musical family of Italian origin. They studied with scholarships at Boston University and the Juilliard School , there with Rosina Lhévinne . Anthony graduated from Boston in 1966 and Joseph in 1970. Everyone started out as a soloist. Joseph made his debut at the age of 17 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra , Anthony played in South America. Her teacher in New York had urged them to play as a duo because she had observed how they seemed to breathe together ("gave the impression of breathing together").

In 1974 they won first prize at the ARD International Music Competition , as the first piano duo ever.

In 1987 they played the world premiere of Alban Berg's version for two pianos of Arnold Schönberg's 1st Chamber Symphony op. 9, which was considered too difficult at the time it was composed. They recorded the work, along with Berg's transcription of his own string quartet, Op. 3.

In 1988 they played one of the 19 concerts of the first Rheingau Music Festival in Johannisberg Castle . On August 27, the program included the sonata for two pianos in F minor, op.34b, by Johannes Brahms , which he later expanded into his piano quintet, Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune in an arrangement of the Composers, arrangements of excerpts from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and his Rhapsody in Blue . The encores included the pianists' arrangement of the finale from Carnival of the Animals , which was often repeated at other concerts in the castle at the request of Tatiana von Metternich .

In 1992 they set up a scholarship for gifted music students at Boston University, the "Paratore Brothers Scholarship Fund".

The duo returned to the Rheingau Music Festival almost every year, in 2001 with a program that mainly showed the arrangements of several composers' own works, Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps , Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole and Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , and that ended with Darius Milhaud's Scaramouche . The pianists recorded works by their friend Dave Brubeck in 2001, the ballet suite Points on Jazz and Four By Four , originally called Centennial Suite when it was composed in 1949/50. In 2004, a concert program juxtaposed works by Brubeck and Bach ; it was recorded live. With the Bach Collegium Munich, directed by Russell Gloyd, they played Bach's Concerto, BWV 1060 , and Brubeck's Points on Jazz in a version with orchestra. In the second half of the program, the Dave Brubeck Quartet took part in works such as Brandenburg Gate , which alludes to the Brandenburg concerts .

In 2012 they appeared at the 25th Rheingau Music Festival in the series "Wegbegleiter". They played Ravel's Ma mère l'oye and Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals in a children's symphony concert at Kurhaus Wiesbaden with the Dresden band soloists , and Rufus Beck spoke the connecting words of Loriot .

New music

Manfred Trojahn composed La folia / music for two pianos on her behalf in 1982 , premiered at the 32nd Berliner Festwochen on September 16, 1982. Wolfgang Rihm composed a mask for two pianos for her in 1985 , which she performed for the first time on March 8, 1986 in Badenweiler . On their behalf, William Bolcom wrote his Sonata for Two Pianos , which they premiered in 1994.

price

1974: ARD international music competition , first prize

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ted Chen: The Paratores Play Two Pianos But Think As One (English) , Chicago Tribune . November 12, 1999. Accessed July 9, 2012. 
  2. ↑ a b c Children's symphony concert “The Carnival of the Animals” . Rheingau Musik Festival , 2012 (accessed on July 9, 2012).
  3. ↑ a b c World renowned duo pianists in concert at Boston University (English) , Boston University . January 9, 2003. Archived from the original on September 11, 2006 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 9, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bu.edu 
  4. ↑ BERG (trans. Composer). String Quartet, Op. 3. SCHOENBERG (trans. Berg). Chamber Symphony, Op. 9. Anthony and Joseph Paratore (pf, four hands). (English) , Gramophone. 1987. Accessed July 10, 2012.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gramophone.net  
  5. ↑ Hanna Weinreich: Bells at the piano tune / Anthony and Joseph Paratore , Wiesbadener Kurier. August 29, 1988. Retrieved July 10, 2012. 
  6. ^ Stefan Lerche: En blanc et noir . Rheingau Musik Festival , 20011 (accessed July 17, 2012).
  7. ↑ Ken Dryden: Anthony Paratore / Dave Brubeck: Points on Jazz ( English ) Allmusic . 2001. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
  8. ↑ Philip Clark: 'Brubeck Meets Bach' Bach Concerto for Two Pianos, BWV1060 Brubeck Points on Jazz for Two Pianos. Unsquare Dance. Lullaby. Brandenburg Gate, Revisited. Regret. Blue Rondo a la Turk Desmond Take Five Handy St Louis Blues Brahms Good evening, good night ( English ) Gramophone. 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
  9. ↑ Stefan Schickhaus: Listening again with "companions" at the 25th Rheingau Music Festival , Allgemeine Zeitung. January 27, 2012. Retrieved July 9, 2012. 
  10. ^ Companion , Rheingau Music Festival . Retrieved July 9, 2012.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rheingau-musik-festival.de  
  11. ^ Richard Hörnicke: Children's concert in the Thiersch-Saal / RMF "Carnival of the Animals" with texts by Loriot , Wiesbadener Tagblatt. July 10, 2012. Archived from the original on February 12, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de 
  12. ↑ Manfred Trojahn / piano music , Bärenreiter . Retrieved July 10, 2012.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.baerenreiter.com  
  13. ↑ Wolfgang Rihm / catalog of works ( PDF), UE , p. 76. Accessed July 10, 2012.  
  14. ↑ Bryan Miller: Paratore Duo Shows 4 Hands Better Than 2 (English) , Chicago Tribune . October 18, 1994. Retrieved July 9, 2012.