Description
The four-handed piano is a relatively rare and sometimes restrictive chamber music formation, because it is one of the few where we share the same instrument. This is what makes it the main difficulty, but it allows on the other hand an exceptional symbiosis.
Obviously, it is better to know your partner personally, because the concept of “bubble” disappears altogether. Working in this way with your spouse is a great advantage in terms of proximity and physical ease. Because ultimately, you have to have the illusion of hearing a single pianist. The four-handed piano requires perfect unity in the attacks, nuances and common gestures (movements of the elbows, release by the wrists, etc.), hence the inestimable advantage of knowing each other very well!
