PrettyInScarlett

Spring is coming and with it the choice of concerts seems to expand! Prompted by the ever-useful Music in Durham website, for the first time I attended a Durham University Music Society  concert and my first experience of a piano duo (2 people, 2 pianos rather than a duet which is 1 piano). Quite a reasonable gathering for a Monday evening in the Concert Room in the Music Department on Palace Green.   The Parnassus Piano Duo , Simon Callaghan and Hiro Takenouchi, make an understated but excellent duo, who treated the audience to a programme of the following:    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91): Larghetto & Allegro in E flat [1781]  Percy Sherwood (1866-1939): Sonata for Two Pianos in C minor [1890 rev. 96]  Aaron Copland (1900-1990): El Salón México (arr. Leonard Bernstein) [1932-6]  Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943): Suite No.2 Op.17   Closing my eyes during the Mozart, I could almost imagine an evening soiree in a Viennes...