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Title: Four Hands. Two Hearts. One Hope
Artist: Anastasiia Larchikova
Label: Reference Recordings
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 030911176228
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-08-22
Number of Discs: 1

Ukrainian and American Music for Piano Duo, performed by Ukrainian artists Anastasiia Larchikova and Mykhailo Diordiiev. These two young pianists perform a splendid program of half Ukrainian/half American compositions, all contemporary and all very accessible. On the American side the album has John Corigliano's "Gazebo Dances", Ricky Ian Gordon's "Ring-A-Ding-Ding", and a world premiere recording of Lowell Liebermann's "Romance, Etude and Chorale, Op. 134". This is the centerpiece of the album, and it is a stunning work that was commissioned by Steinway as a wedding present to Lang Lang. The Ukrainian music features "Carpathian Song" by Zoltan Almashi, composer, cellist and winner of the Lev Revultsky Prize in 2003; "Three Extravagant Dances" by the late Myroslav Skoryk, who was awarded the titles "The People's Artist" and "Hero of Ukraine", and whose music contains stylistic traits from Ukrainian folk music; and lastly "Ru-um-bambar" by Bohdan Sehin, who studied with M. Skoryk and whose music is highly textured, with Eastern European expressiveness. Proceeds from this album will be donated to Ukraine humanitarian aid organizations.

Tracks:
1.1 Carpathian Song
1.2 Gazebo Dances~I. Overture
1.3 Gazebo Dances~II. Waltz
1.4 Gazebo Dances~III. Adagio
1.5 Gazebo Dances~IV. Tarantella
1.6 Three Extravagant Dances~I. Entrance and Dance... almost Hispano-Moresque
1.7 Three Extravagant Dances~II. Blues... almost American
1.8 Three Extravagant Dances~III. Can-can... as if from an old gramolphone record
1.9 Romance, Etude and Chorale, Op. 134~I. Romance and Etude
1.10 Romance, Etude and Chorale, Op. 134~II. Chorale
1.11 Ru-um-bambar
1.12 Ring-A-Ding-Ding