CDs

CDs are available on the Toucan label. They reflect Anne and Geoffrey’s interest in reviving works from archive and in composers’ own arrangements/transcriptions for piano duet of their own or other established composers’ works for other forces.  

GEMS 1  

....has 14 tracks of attractive pieces or movements from larger works,   
some familiar others less so,but all of them gems in their own right. Several tracks feature pieces arranged for piano duet by the composers
themselves or pieces which are more popularly heard in their orchestral
orchestral version but were originally written for piano duet.

The tracks were recorded on a wonderful ‘period’
Broadwood piano of 1912 which has been regulated
but otherwise in virtually original condition at the time
of the recording.

GEMS 2  

.... follows on from GEMS 1 with 18 tracks of pieces which
continue the revival of piano duet treasures and seeks to promote
the piano duet ensemble with more recently composed works also.
Some tracks were recorded on the same ‘period’ Broadwood piano
of 1912 as GEMS 1 and some on a Steinway O made in 1917
which was fully restored in 2004/5.  Both pianos come from
an era which can give an idea of how most of the music could have sounded.