WALTZ, TANGO, SAMBA & DANCES OF THE ZODIAC

Piano duo

Ivančić / Cikojević

Francis Poulenc:     

L´embarquement pour Cythère, valse-musette, FP 150

Élégie,FP 168

Capriccio,FP 155

Boris Papandopulo: Horoscope, Dance suite for two pianos and percussion op. 52

            Prelude

            Aries

           Taurus

           Gemini

           Cancer

           Leo

           Virgo

           Libra

           Scorpio

           Sagittarius

           Capricorn

           Aquarius

           Pisces

Darius Milhaud: Scaramouche, Suite for two pianos, op.156b

Vif

Modéré

Brazileira

Zrinka Ivančić Cikojević, Dalibor Cikojević – pianos

Karmen Pervitić, Fran Krsto Šercar – percussions

Viktoria Bubalo, Šimun Stankov – dancers

Ivančić & Cikojević Piano Duo describe their concert programme at this year’s Dubrovnik Summer Festival as ‘a true apotheosis of rhythm and dance’ in which the dance suite Horoscope, the duo’s first project, takes central place among the rhythms and dances by Poulenc and Milhaud. The premiere of the work in its original form – for piano and percussion – took place in Houston, Texas, in 2017 (since, as they say, it is not clear whether percussionists took part in its first performance in 1936), and they recently recorded it with percussionists Ivana Kuljerić Bilić and Nikola Krbanyevitch.

Dina Puhovski's text about the programme available here.