Gramophone Magazine
July 2025
Editor's choice

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano), Samson Tsoy (piano)

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (for two pianos / four hands)
Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye

"Kolesnikov and Tsoy vindicate the piano arrangement [of Le Sacre du printemp] as a concert piece...However many or few piano duet albums you want on your virtual or actual shelves, I’d struggle to recommend any above this one." - Gramophone Magazine, July 2025

From the moving farewell to childhood (Ma mère l’Oye) to the savage power of rituals from pre-Christian Russia (The Rite of Spring), Ravel and Stravinsky explore musical horizons of incredible modernity. Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy offer a powerful yet poetic interpretation of these two masterpieces.