Recital
Duo Lortie-Mercier
Rachmaninoff,
Suite no.1
“Fantaisie-tableaux”
Symphonic Dances
Louis Lortie | Piano
Hélène Mercier | Piano
Recital
Louis Lortie | Piano
Hélène Mercier | Piano
French-Canadian pianists Louis Lortie and Hélène Mercier present
a stirring all-Rachmaninoff program combining an early work,
the picturesque Suite no. 1 “Fantaisie -tableaux “, to the composer’s last composition, the luxuriant Symphonic Dances in Rachmaninoff’s own version for two pianos.
A magisterial performance presented at the exquiste Bourgie Hall
of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
“An aura surrounded these two pianists and the music
they produced ” (Bachtrack).