New Podcast: Stravinsky ballets - on piano

Martin Cullingford
Friday, May 20, 2016

Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen talk about performing four-hand transcriptions of The Rite of Spring and Petrushka

New Podcast: Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen discuss playing Stravinsky ballets on piano  (photo: Sim Canetty-Clarke)
New Podcast: Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen discuss playing Stravinsky ballets on piano (photo: Sim Canetty-Clarke)

Pianists Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva have recently recorded a disc of Stravinsky’s Petrushka and The Rite of Spring for Quartz in piano four-hand transcriptions. Gramophone’s Editor-in-Chief James Jolly talks to them about the challenges of performing these formidable works on our latest podcast. 

To hear the podcast, visit Gramophone's iTunes page

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