Two grand pianos, eleven percussion instruments, and four musicians on stage, playing adaptations of Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre, Mozart’s two-piano sonata, and Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps. This concert is an experiment in the similarities between piano and rhythmic music; an exploration of the duality of the piano, which makes silky, melodious sounds through the principle of percussion. The highlight of this concert is the last piece, Le Sacre du Printemps, where pianist An Tianxu and Ge Hao use two pianos to play all of the parts of an orchestra, as percussion musicians Fu Yifei and Lider Chang play rhythm parts on 11 kinds of instrument.
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