Noticias

---

In piano four-hands and two pianos

The Naughton sisters performed Mozart´s, Mendelssohn´s, Adams´s and Messiaen´s compositions

April 04, 2016

Christina and Michelle Naughton’s virtuosity conquered the audience gathered at the Palace of Fine Arts to enjoy the concert that the sisters offered in piano four-hands and pieces for two pianos.

Dressed in black, the Naughton sisters, from New Jersey, masterfully played Mendelssohn’s, Mozart’s, Adams’s and Messiaen’s compositions, which made up the repertoire of their first concert at Mexico City’s marble building.

 The evening began with Andante and Allegro Brillant, one of the few pieces that Felix Mendelssohn composed for piano duet four-hands, a melody of great beauty that requires a great interpretive technique.

 The Naughton sisters’ fingers came and went along the keyboard, where they danced and jumped, accompanied by a great expression on the pianists’ faces who agreed with the emotionality of the piece.

 The concert continued with a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s piece, Andante and Five Variations in G major for piano four-hands played with great mastery without scores, sometimes with frenzy high speed or with lightly gentle touches in the keyboard.

Then, the pieces for two pianos came: The first was Hallelujah Junction by John Adams, a contemporary and technically demanding work, composed in 1996, and the second was Visions de l’Amen, by Olivier Messiaen, dated in 1943.

 This piece of sad and dramatic notes and religious impulses, made up of seven movements, showed the perfect synchronicity that the Naughton have achieved, who according to critics they have an outstanding harmony and a stylistic confidence.

After the concert, which was broadcasted on a giant screen in the Corredor Angela Peralta, next to the Palace of Fine Arts, Christina and Michelle got a loud applause, so the pianists returned to the stage to offer a four hands encore, which confirmed their mastery in the instrument.

 The Naughton sisters, graduated from the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Juilliard School of New York also got time for an autograph session that took place after the concert in the Hall of interviews of the marble building having the opportunity to live with their followers.

 

Mexico,Distrito Federal