Ruth Leon recommends… The Christmas Tree Concert- Carnegie Hall

The Christmas Tree Concert- Carnegie Hall

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In 2017, Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim performed a festive programme for four-hands piano, featuring Liszt’s seldom-heard suite of Christmas-carol arrangements and two delightful French works: Bizet’s Jeux d’enfants and Ravel’s Ma mère l’Oye.

These two great artists are both in their 80s and neither is in the best of health so I was delighted when my friend Carmen discovered this beautiful concert on the Carnegie Hall platform.

Unfortunately, unless you have Apple+ this is only available in the US but for those outside the US who are feeling deprived, here’s another lovely concert, a multi-view recording by these two old friends, filmed in 2021, which includes Mozart’s Sonata KV 521, Debussy’s Les Épigraphes Antiques, and Bizet’s Jeux d’enfants, Op. 22.

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