DEKLEVA PIANO DUO: CANTICUM SLOVENICUM

Classical and Modern Music

Format: Digitalno

Code: 115981

EAN: 3838898115981

Dekleva Piano Duo

Pianists Alenka and Igor Dekleva studied the piano at the Ljubljana Academy of Music. After graduating and completing master’s degrees, they began performing as the Dekleva Piano Duo in 1967. In their more than forty years of collaboration, they have performed concerts and recitals, appeared with orchestras, and recorded for radio and television in Slovenia, in all of the republics of the former Yugoslavia, and in many other European countries. Particular mention should be made of their tour of the Soviet Union (1981) with an opening recital in Leningrad (St Petersburg), a recital in Helsinki, Finland (1983) in Aalto’s celebrated Finlandia Hall, an extensive ten-concert tour of Denmark (1993), as well as numerous performances in Germany, Austria, Italy, and so on. Particularly notable was their tour of the USA (2006), with concerts in Washington DC, Chicago, Milwaukee, and elsewhere.

In addition to the extensive world repertoire for the piano duo, they have performed numerous compositions by Slovenian composers, including giving premiere performances of many works by Primož Ramovš dedicated to them. Their performance of Mozart’s complete sonatas for piano four hands at the international Ljubljana Festival in 1979 attracted particular acclaim. To date, they have recorded over ten albums, released as records, CDs or other sound media. Alenka Dekleva taught the piano at the Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and Ballet, and Igor Dekleva taught at the Ljubljana Academy of Music, later shifting his focus to the piano duo. Their artistic work is described extensively in the chapter Dvoglasna partita (Two-Part Partita) of Igor Dekleva’s autobiography Živeti z glasbo (Living With Music), co-authored by Dr. Franc Križnar and published by DZS in 2006, as well as in the second and sixteenth volumes of the Encyclopaedia of Slovenia.

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Slavko Osterc

Magnificat for choir and piano four hands

Dekleva Piano Duo and Kaertner Madrigalchor

Nikolaus Fheodoroff, conductor

Anton Lajovic

Adagio for piano four hands

Dekleva Piano Duo

Marjan Kozina

First Suite for piano four hands

Dekleva Piano Duo

Vivo

Lento

Scherzo – Trio – Scherzo da capo

Marcia

Igor Dekleva∙

Canticum Slovenicum for piano four hands

Dekleva Piano Duo

Mc. DSS 5 (Partitura - Score)

Igor Dekleva

Štehvanje for piano four hands

Dekleva Piano Duo

Ed. DSS 1651 (Partitura - Score)

Larisa Vrhunc

Three for Two Pianos

Dekleva Piano Duo

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Primož Ramovš

Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra

Dekleva Piano Duo and RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra

Anton Nanut, conductor

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Ed. DSS 1022* (Score and/or parts on hire)