Credits:

Alessio Bax, Lucille Chung

Description:

Alessio Backs, the Italian prince of the piano, has won the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition and the Leeds International Piano Competition and is enjoying a dazzling international career. His fifth album, released by Signum Classics, is a four-hand piano album featuring Montreal-born pianist Lucille Chung, whom he met at the Hamamatsu Competition and who has since become his wife!The program, presented by this duo with an already impressive track record in both live performances and recordings, features Petrushkaone of Stravinskys three great ballets, arranged for four-hand piano by the composer himself Brahms *Waltz Collection*, which paints a wide range of delicate expressions from elegant Viennese waltzes to lullabies; and a collection of Piazzollas tangosincluding Libertango and Milonga de los ngelesreimagined as a four-hand arrangement by the couple. *Petrushka*a wor