Michael Wollny & Joachim Kühn - Duo (CD)

Live in concert at Alte Oper Frankfurt, Germany.Michael Wollny and Joachim Kühn are distinct and fundamentally different as musicians. And that is precisely the thing from which a significant part of their sense of common purpose stems. Both are outstandingly virtuosic pianists without stylistic restrictions,; the most divergent areas of contemporary music can be the place where they find their connection. Each has an ever-alert and enormously creative mind, plus the virtue of being able to listen, and also the confidence to do the right thing at the right moment, and to not just take their duo partner by surprise, but also, sometimes, themselves too. The duo work began in October 2008 with the recording of the album 'Piano Works IX : Live At Schloss Elm au'. Now almost 15 years later, the two pianists have come together again for a recording.What is to be heard on this album? It documents the concert which took place in the Alte Oper Frankfurt on 23 January 2023, in its essential pha