Presto Recording of the Week
5th March 2021

Gramophone Magazine
April 2021
Recording of the Month

Steven Osborne (piano), Paul Lewis (piano)

Fauré: Dolly Suite, Op. 56
Poulenc: Sonata for Piano Four Hands (à mademoiselle Simone Tilliard)
Debussy: 6 Epigraphes antiques
Debussy: Petite Suite
Stravinsky: Three Easy Pieces for Piano Duet
Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye

A bewitching programme of music often associated with childhood, including favourites by Fauré, Ravel and Debussy; works which amply reward the care lavished on them by Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne in these exquisite accounts.

"Such is the synergy between them that for most of this recital I entirely forgot that I was listening to two pianists rather than one: every shift in colour, dynamic and tempo is perfectly synchronised, and the balance throughout is similarly immaculate, with neither succumbing to the temptation to over-assert themselves when playing the supporting role." - Katherine Cooper, Presto Classical, 12th March 2021.