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This page contains the works currently listed in Duo Lafitte repertoire. For each composer the list is divided in works for two pianos, works for piano duet and works for two pianos with orchestra or ensemble.

 

 

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At the same time, the Duo Lafitte maintains a catalogue of works for two pianists and possibly other instrumentalits, pianists or not: two pianos, three pianos, two pianos and orchestra, two pianos and percussion, two pianos and voices, ...
 
The catalogue currently consists of more than 6000 works, among them for instance :

  • 3100 for two pianos soli

  • 2550 by living composers

  • 1550 for one piano, four hands

  • 1060 of North American music

  •   440 of Scandinavian or Baltic music

  •   340 for two pianos and orchestra

  •   208 for two pianos and choir

  •   192 for four pianos or two pianos, eight hands

  •   159 for two pianos and percussion

  •     37 for two pianos and wind instrument(s)

  •     20 for six pianos

  • ...

You will find in the catalogue part some excerpts of the catalogue. For more specific extractions, please do not hesitate to get in contact.

Bach, Johann Sebastian
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Beffa, Karol
Brahms, Johannes
Bruch, Max
Brust, Paul
Chabrier, Emmanuel
Challulau, Tristan-Patrice
Chasins, Abram
Chopin, Frédéric
Chostakovitch, Dmitri
Debussy, Claude
Delplace, Stéphane
Dello Joio, Norman
Dutilleux, Henri
Falla, Manuel de
Gershwin, George
Grieg, Edvard
Holst, Gustav
Infante, Manuel
Lafitte, Isabelle
Ligeti, György
Liszt, Franz
Louvier, Alain
Lutosławski, Witold
MacPhee, Colin
Martin, Frank
Mendelssohn, Felix
Milhaud, Darius
Moszkowski, Moritz
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Poulenc, Francis
Rachmaninov, Sergueï
Ravel, Maurice
Rimski-Korsakov, Nicolaï
Rodrigo, Joaquín
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Schubert, Franz
Schumann, Robert
Smetana, Bedřich
Soler, Padre Antonio
Stravinsky, Igor
Tailleferre, Germaine
Takemitsu, Toru
Turina, Joaquín
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Zavaro, Pascal

Ancre 1

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
 

Concertos

  • Concerto for two keyboards, C minor, BWV 1060

  • Concerto for two keyboards, C major, BWV 1061, 20mn

  • Concerto for two keyboards, C minor, BWV 1062

  • Concerto for three keyboards, D minor, BWV 1063, 17mn

  • Concerto for four keyboards, A minor, BWV 1065, 11mn

Ancre 2

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
 

Piano duet

  • Lied and 6 variations, on Goethe's "Ich denke Dein", D major, WoO 74, 1799-1803, 5mn

Ancre 3

Karol Beffa (1973-)
 

Two pianos or Piano duet

  • Mirages, hommage à Ravel, written for and created by Duo Lafitte, 2004, 7mn

Ancre 4

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
 

Two pianos

  • Sonata in F major, op. 34b, 1863, 41mn

  • Waltzes (5), op. 39, 1865

  • Variations on a theme by Haydn, op. 56b, 1873, 18mn

Piano duet

  • Hungarian dances, 1869-80, 50mn

  • Liebeslieder Walzer, op. 52, (with vocal quartet ad lib.), 1868-69, 23mn

Ancre 5
Ancre 6

Max Bruch (1838-1920)
 

Piano duet

  • Swedish dances, op. 63, 16mn

Concertos

  • Concerto, op. 88a, 1912-15, 28mn

Ancre 7

Paul Brust (1961-)
 

Two pianos

  • Sonata, 1988, 12mn, written for Duo Lafitte

Piano duet

  • Dance Suite, 1988, 12mn, written for and created by Duo Lafitte

Ancre 8

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
 

Two pianos

  • España, 1883, 7mn

Ancre 9

Tristan-Patrice Challulau (1959-)
 

Two pianos

  • Aziyadé, 1999, 6mn, written for and created by Duo Lafitte

Ancre 10

Abram Chasins (1903-1987)
 

Two pianos

  • Carmen Fantasy, 1937, 8mn

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
 

Two pianos

  • Rondo in C major, op. 73, 1828, 9mn

Piano duet

  • Variations on a theme by Thomas Moore, D major, B. 12a, 1826

Ancre 11
Ancre 12

Dmitri Chostakovitch (1906-1975)
 

Two pianos

  • Concertino, op. 94, 1953, 9mn

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
 

Two pianos

  • Lindaraja, 1901, 6mn

  • Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, 9mn

  • En blanc et noir, 1915, 15mn

  • Nocturnes, transcr.: Maurice Ravel, 1899 (arr. 1902-1909), 28mn

Piano duet

  • Six épigraphes antiques, 1914, 16mn

  • Petite suite, 1889, 12mn

Ancre 13
Ancre 14

Stéphane Delplace (1953-)
 

Two pianos

  • Marche antique, or Tombeau de Ravel, 2001, 10mn, created by Duo Lafitte in Paris, 17 March 2002

Ancre 15

Norman Dello Joio (1913-)
 

Two pianos

  • Aria et toccata, 1949, 10mn

Henri Dutilleux (1916-)
 

Two pianos

  • Figures de résonances, 1970-76, 8mn

Ancre 16
Ancre 17

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
 

Two pianos

  • Two Spanish dances, from "La Vida breve", transcr. Isabelle Lafitte, 1905, 7mn

  • Ritual fire dance, from "El amor brujo", transcr., Mario Braggiotti, 1915, 3mn

Ancre 18

George Gershwin (1898-1937)
 

Two pianos

  • Three preludes, transcr. : Gregory Stone, 1926, 7mn

  • Fantasy on "Porgy and Bess", by Percy Aldridge Grainger, 1951, 21mn

Ancre 19

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
 

Piano Duet

  • Peer Gynt, suite 1, op. 46, 1875, 12mn

Ancre 20

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
 

Two pianos

  • The planets, op. 32 / H. 125, 1914-16, 45mn

Ancre 21

Manuel Infante (1883-1958)
 

Two pianos

  • Andalucian dances, 1921, 14mn

Ancre 22

Isabelle Lafitte (1961-)
 

Two pianos

  • Snoopy waltz, 1987, 5mn

  • Nega/c/tive B.D., 1997, 25m

Ancre 23

György Ligeti (1923-2006)
 

Two pianos

  • Monument - Selbstporträt - Bewegung : three pieces for two pianos, 1976, 15mn

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
 

Two pianos

  • Réminiscences de Don Juan, 1841, 16mn

  • Concerto pathétique, 1865, 19mn

Piano duet

  • Nocturne, in E major, after sonnet n°104, 1858

Ancre 24
Ancre 25

Alain Louvier (1945-)
 

Concertos

  • Météores, for two pianos and orchestra, 1998, 15mn, written for and created by Duo Lafitte

Ancre 26

Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994)
 

Two pianos

  • Variations on a theme by Paganini, 1941, 7mn

Colin MacPhee (1901-1964)
 

Concertos

  • Tabuh-Tabuhan Toccata, for two pianos and orchestra, 1936, 16mn

Two pianos

  • Balinese Ceremonial Music, 1940, 10mn

Ancre 27
Ancre 28

Frank Martin (1890-1974)
 

Two pianos

  • Ouverture and fox-trot, 1924, 10mn

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
 

Piano duet

  • Allegro brillant, op. 92, 1841, 9mn

Ancre 29

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
 

Two pianos

  • Le Carnaval d’Aix, op. 83a, 1926, 19mn

  • Fantaisie pastorale, op. 188, 1938, 10mn

  • Scaramouche, op. 165b, 1937, 9mn

  • La Libertadora, op. 236a, 1943, 7mn

Ancre 30

Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925)
 

Piano Duet

  • 3 New Spanish Dances, op. 65, 1900, 13mn

Ancre 31

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
 

Two pianos

  • The magic flute : Overture, transcr. : Ferruccio Busoni, 7mn ; Arias, transcr.: Isabelle and Florence Lafitte, 47mn

  • Sinfonia Concertante, KV 364, 1779, E flat major, transcr. : Jacques Drillon, 30 mn

  • Larghetto and allegro, E flat major, 1781, 9mn

  • Sonata in D major, KV 448, 1781

  • String Quartet, KV 575, op. 21, D major, 1789, transcr. : Jacques Drillon

Piano duet

  • Andante and variations, G major, KV 501, 1786, 8mn

  • Sonata n°1, G major, KV 357, 1786, 11mn

  • Sonata n°2, B flat major, KV 358, 1774, 10mn

  • Sonata n°3, D major, KV 381, 1772, 11mn

  • Sonata n°4, F major, KV 497, 1786, 29mn

  • Sonata n°5, C major, KV 521, 1787, 23mn

  • Fantasia for a mechanical organ, F minor, KV 608, 1791, 11mn

Concertos

  • Concerto in E flat major, KV 365, 1779-81, 24mn

  • Concerto in F major, for three or two pianos, KV 242, 1776

Ancre 32

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
 

Two pianos

  • Elégie, 1952, 6mn

  • L’embarquement pour Cythère, 1951, 2mn

  • Sonata for two pianos, 1953, 23mn

Concertos

  • Concerto for two pianos in D, (also version for two pianos without orchestra by the composer), 1932, 20mn

Ancre 33
Ancre 34

Sergueï Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
 

Two pianos

  • Suite n°1, op. 5, 1893, 23mn

  • Suite n°2, C major, op. 17, 1901, 21mn

Piano duet

  • Six duets, op. 11, 1894, 30mn

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
 

Two pianos

  • Sites auriculaires, 1895-97, 6mn

  • Overture of Sheherazade, 1898, 13mn

  • Introduction and allegro, 1906, 16mn

  • La valse, 1920, 11mn

  • Rapsodie espagnole, 1907, 16mn

Piano duet

  • Ma mère l’Oye, 1910, 15mn

  • Valses nobles et sentimentales, transcr. : Lucien Garban, 15mn

Ancre 35

Nikolaï Rimski-Korsakov (1844-1908)
 

Two pianos

  • Sheherazade, Movements I & II, op. 35, 1888, 20mn, transcription by Isabelle and Florence Lafitte

Piano duet

  • Sheherazade, op. 35, 1888, 42mn, transcription by the composer

Ancre 36
Ancre 37

Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999)
 

Two pianos

  • Cinco piezas infantiles, 1924, 12mn

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
 

Two pianos

  • Variations on a theme by Beethoven, op. 35, 1874, 19mn

Concertos

  • Le carnaval des animaux, 1886, 24mn

Ancre 38
Ancre 39

Franz Schubert (1810-1856)
 

Piano duet

  • Fantasy in F minor, D 940, op. 103, 1828, 19mn

Ancre 40

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
 

Two pianos

  • Six etudes in canon form, transcr.: Claude Debussy, op. 56, 1845, 17mn

  • Andante and variations, (and 2 cellos and horn ad lib.), B flat Major, op.46, 1843, 15mn

  • Spanische Liebeslieder, with vocal quartet, op. 138, 1849, 21mn

  • Das Paradies und die Peri (excerpts), transcr.: Isabelle Lafitte, with vocal quintet

Piano duet

  • Bilder aus Osten, op. 66, 1848, 15mn

Ancre 41

Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884)
 

Eight hands

  • Rondo for eight hands, C major, 1845

  • Sonata for eight hands, E minor, 1851

Ancre 42

Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783)
 

Two Pianos

  • Fandango, D minor, transcr. : Jean Weber, 10 mn

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
 

Two pianos

  • Scherzo à la russe, 1944, 4mn

  • Circus Polka, transcr. Victor Babin, 4mn

Concertos

  • Les noces, four pianos, percussions, choir and soloist voices, 1914-23, 25mn

Ancre 43

Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
 

Two pianos

  • Fandango, 1920, 3 mn

  • Intermezzo, 1946, 3mn

  • Larghetto, 1946, 3mn

Ancre 44

Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
 

Concertos

  • Quotation of dream - Say Sea, Take Me! -, for two pianos and orchestra, 1991, 16mn

Ancre 45

Joaquín Turina (1882-1949)
 

Piano duet

  • La Procesión del Rocio, op. 9, 1912, 9mn

Ancre 46

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
 

Concertos

  • Concerto for two pianos and orchestra, 1946, 25mn

Ancre 47

Pascal Zavaro (1959-)
 

Two pianos

  • Gasoline music, 2002, 8mn, written for and created by Duo Lafitte

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