Mark Anderson and Tamriko Siprashvili are a husband and wife two-piano team from Pleasanton, CA, who released this as their first recording. Why is anybody's guess. This is not to say that Anderson and Siprashvili are not fine pianists separately and together: clearly each is a virtuoso and they play together with a combination of sensitivity and individuality that only the best two-piano teams have ever achieved. The question, though, is why this particular recording? Even when played with the power and passion that ...
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Mark Anderson and Tamriko Siprashvili are a husband and wife two-piano team from Pleasanton, CA, who released this as their first recording. Why is anybody's guess. This is not to say that Anderson and Siprashvili are not fine pianists separately and together: clearly each is a virtuoso and they play together with a combination of sensitivity and individuality that only the best two-piano teams have ever achieved. The question, though, is why this particular recording? Even when played with the power and passion that Anderson and Siprashvili bring to it is there a need for a recording of Stravinsky's transcription of his Le sacra du printemps, an arrangement the composer made for rehearsal purposes, when the work itself was conceived and executed for full orchestra with gargantuan percussion section. And even when played with the force and flexibility that Anderson and Siprashvili bring to it is there a need for a recording of Tim Seddon's two-piano transcription of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an...
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