Adrian Jack: Black and Blue

Black and Blue is the title of one of Adrian Jack's pieces for two pianos and the name of his new disc containing all eleven pieces he has written for the medium. The disc traces the course, over some fifteen years, of Jack's artistic collaboration with Ingryd Thorson and Julian Thurber, whose enthusiasm and encouragement - not to mention their superb performances - were his main inspiration. The character of the pieces (arranged in the order of composition) ranges from the belligerent to the serene, and each was to some extent a reaction or response to the one before it, so that the listener experiences a kind of journey when following the eleven tracks one after the other.

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