ANTON ARENSKY (1861-1906): Suites for 2 Pianos, No. 1, Op. 15, No. 2, Op. 23 "Silhouettes", No. 3, Op. 33 "Variations", No. 4, Op. 62 and No. 5, Op, 65 "Children's Suite".

Description: Composed between 1890 and 1903, these are technically advanced, high-quality salon music, being suites mostly of stylized dances with, in No. 2, character pieces replacing the latter. Nothing of depth-plumbing originality here - just bright, sparkling diamonds of their genre and the sort of thing virtuosic piano duos love to perform. Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov.