Pianist Series: Katia and Marielle Labèque

Katia and Marielle Lab��que

The Labèques: a household name. For decades, Katia and Marielle Labèque have represented the top duos performing music for piano four hands and two pianos. The sisters have worked with composers such as Berio and Ligeti, and their recording of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue brought them one of the first gold records in classical music. Whether it's contemporary, jazz or rock: with the French sisters you can go in any direction. In the Main Hall, Schubert and Ravel will be performing alongside the living great Philip Glass.

The most beautiful works for piano four hands

Schubert was head over heels in love with Caroline Esterházy, his 17-year-old piano student. She was beautiful and noble, a relationship was a no-go. They could not have come any closer than when playing the Fantasy in F major that he dedicated to her. Whether they told each other fairy tales and whether the title La Belle et La Bête applied to this couple, we do not know. What we do know, and hear: piano music for four hands can make you happy���