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Anne and Geoffrey bring a fresh and exciting interpretation to standard repertoire, favourite pieces, less familiar works and those in lighter mood.

Discovering new repertoire from archive as well as composers’ own arrangements/transcriptions for four hands of their own compositions (or those of other established composers) for other ensembles is a particular interest.

Anne and Geoffrey have given the UK premiere of most of the piano duets by John Carmichael - who has also composed music specially for them -  and a set of pieces in jazz idiom specially for them by Brian Chapple in 2006.

A different experience. Programmes can be............

standard repertoire of works by, for example, Beethoven, Brahms, Chaminade, Clementi, Debussy, Dvorak, Fauré, Grieg, Moszkowski, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Schubert, Warlock . . . .

transcriptions/arrangements and works from archive –
examples include Bach/Reinecke - Chaconne in D minor (from violin partita); Brahms - Academic Festival Overture; Delius/Warlock - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring; Dvorak – New World symphony; Fauré - Masques et Bergamasques; Chaminade - Concert étude: Automne and other works; Grieg - Peer Gynt and many other works by this composer; Kurtag -Transcriptions from Machaut to J S Bach; Mendelssohn - Octet for strings; Overture and incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hebrides overture, Songs Without Words; Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade; Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.6 (Pathétique);  Tchaikovsky/Rachmaninov - Ballet Suite: Sleeping Beauty; ……and many more

themed - by country eg French, German, English; by composer eg Brahms and his contemporaries; by era eg classical, romantic, nationalist/impressionist; by topic eg Dance

pieces in lighter mood – syncopated – dances – from the shows

requests – works you would like to be included in a programme