Sorcellerie

Bewitching fairy tales and timeless legends run like a red thread through this album by the duo Játékok: Naïri Badal and Adélaïde Panaget transform themselves into sorceresses on four hands and two pianos - bewitching guides who lead us through a program that deals with a Faustian pact, magic and the world of childhood. The piano sonata by Liszt, brilliantly transcribed for two pianos by Saint-Saëns, takes center stage: "It illustrates the eternal struggle between the arrogance of excess and the tragic fall, between light and darkness," the duo says about this 'Faustian' masterpiece by Liszt, a great admirer of Goethe. The famous Sorcerer's Apprentice, which Paul Dukas transcribed himself in 1898, is airier but equally fantastic. The trance-like atmosphere and wild dances continue in El amor brujo (The magic of love) by Manuel de Falla. Finally, Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, a "macabre dance between the world of the living and the world of the spirits", concludes this supernatural odyssey