Ludmila Berlinskaya & Arthur Ancelle

Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker, Francesca da Rimini

Saphir Productions, 2012

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Tchaikovsky : Francesca da Rimini op. 32 (tr. Ancelle)
Tchaikovsky : Nutcracker - Suite op. 71a (tr. Economou)
Pabst : Paraphrase on themes from Evgeny Onegin op. 81 (tr. Jaroszewski)

Ludmila Berlinskaya, Arthur Ancelle, pianos

Recorded at the Temple Saint-Marcel, Paris
Sound Engineer : Nikolaos Samaltanos

The anecdote : This very first recording of the duo was produced as a wedding gift from their families and friends and it was recorded a couple of months after the wedding.

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BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE (UK) - JANUARY 2013

Geoff Brown

"The whirlwind portions of Francesca generate tremendous power in Ancelle's transcription. The Nutcracker character pieces are crisply etched"

DIAPASON (FRANCE) - JUNE 2012

Jérôme Bastianelli

"Without any abusive exaggeration, Ancelle and Berlinskaya, brilliant, playful, hurtle those heroic scales with a contagious cheerfulness!"

CONCERTONET.COM - APRIL 2012

Gilles d'Heyres

“Arthur Ancelle delivers a truly exciting adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece. In osmosis, the duo plunges with beating heart into to the rhythm of a diabolical chromaticism, at the verge of suffocation or dizziness, alternating dramas and passions without downtime. We quickly forget the original orchestration of the score - is not it the best compliment we can offer a transcriptionist? - to recapture the spirit of Dante throughout the 22 minutes of grand piano playing.”