Debut album "Souvenirs"
Release Date: March 22nd, 2024
Label: Immersive Sound Art
From New York via Amsterdam to Paris and Vienna – on their debut album the Onyx Piano Duo combines musical souvenirs from four different countries to create a colourful overall picture. In this personal retrospective, well-known piano works for four hands appear in a new light alongside exciting discoveries - always united by the two pianists' captivating joy of performing.
Samuel Barber: Souvenirs op. 28
Leo Smit: Divertimento
Maurice Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye
W.A. Mozart: Sonata C major K.521
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Stereo-CD and Pure Audio Blu-ray (immersive Dolby-Atmos format)
28-page booklet in German and English
Programme notes by Holger Slowik
Illustrations by Isabel Roos
"These recordings are brilliant, as is the playing of the Onyx Duo, who is bursting with playfulness and creative joy on this debut album. When has Maurice Ravel's Ma mère l'Oye ever been heard as beautifully, intimately and sonically as it is here? (...) Souvenirs is pure listening pleasure."
- Alain Steffen, pizzicato
"The Onyx piano duo (...) plays with extraordinary sensitivity, unrivalled precision and an unerring feel for subtle nuances. (...) shows a piano duo that is not only perfectly attuned to each other, but also makes music in a highly refreshing and infectious way. From Mozart to Barber, everything is played with nuance, at the highest technical level and with relish."
- Guido Krawinkel, Klassik heute