Bach at the Source – Humility & Models XVIII
Chamber Music
Wednesday, 23 August 2023
7.30 pm, Zweisimmen Church
Lucas & Arthur Jussen are not twins, but have been making music together since they were little. Introduced to the richness of the repertoire for two pianos during the year they spent studying with the great Maria João Pires in Portugal and Brazil – they were only nine and twelve years old – these two Dutch trendsetters have since had one success after another, with no fewer than eight albums to their credit on the Deutsche Grammophon label. In Zweisimmen, they are performing several of the mainstays of their repertoire, including Igor Stravinsky's famous Rite of Spring: ballet music that caused a scandal when it was first performed on 29 May 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, but which for a long time was known to the general public only through its first edition for piano four hands, from which the two-piano edition is directly derived.
Lucas & Arthur Jussen, Pianos
| Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) | |
| “Schafe können sicher weiden”, soprano aria from the Cantata “Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd” BWV 208 (arr. by Mary Howe) | 5' |
| “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland”, choral prelude in A Minor, BWV 599 (arr. by György Kurtág) | 2' |
| “Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit”, choral from the Cantata BWV 106 “Actus Tragicus” (arr. by György Kurtág) | 3' |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) | |
| Sonata for 2 Pianos in D Major, K. 448 | 20' |
| Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) | |
| “The Rite of the Spring” | 35' |
| 70' | |
| CHF 125/105/65 |
