Duo Caron

Born in Rimouski,[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/rimouski-que-emc/ Music in Rimouski], entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia / The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada Quebec, Canada, sibling pianists Josee and Martin CaronJean-Pierre Thiollet, [https://archive.org/details/88notespourpiano0000thio « 88 notes pour piano solo, Solo de duo »], Neva Editions, 2015, p.98. {{ISBN|978-2-3505-5192-0}} have lived in Montreal for several years. They started collaborating under the name Duo Caron in 1990.

In 1994, thanks to the unique nature of the transcriptions of masterful works and the quality of the high-level interpretations, the duo received an internship grant from the Quebec-Wallonia-Brussels Agency for Youth AQWBJ,[http://cyberquebec.ca/duocaron/documents/duocaron_aqwbj.pdf AQWBJ Duo Caron] (French language). Retrieved March 8, 2024. for a promotional tour in French-speaking Belgium.

Following this recognition, the duo obtained a series of concert engagements, recordings and federal grants such as Musicaction.[https://musicaction.ca/ Musicaction]. Retrieved March 8, 2024.[https://musicaction.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/musicaction_annual_report_2011-2012.pdf Musicaction Annual Report 2011-2012] Retrieved March 8, 2024. These performances earned him rave reviews.

Since 2020, the duo Caron has brought together pianists Carmen Picard and Josee Caron. The team's mandate remains the same, namely the interpretation of their own arrangements of orchestral works for two pianos and for piano duet. Their thematic album (2023), described by The Music Scene as impeccable ensemble playing,[https://myscena.org/viktor-lazarov/cd-review-duo-caron-suites-modernes-pour-quatre-mains-espace-21-2023/ « Review | Duo Caron: Suites modernes pour quatre mains (Espace 21, 2023) »] Review from The Music Scene, April-May 2, 2024. Retrieved April 4, 2024. brings together different styles of 20th century Suites.[https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/musique/emissions/touteunemusique/episodes/799191/rattrapage-mardi-17-octobre-2023 « Rattrapage du 17 oct. 2023 : Musique du Duo Caron, de Philippe Bianconi et de Christian-Pierre La Marca »] Radio broadcast from Ohdio show, Radio-Canada. Retrieved September 5, 2024.[https://open.spotify.com/album/0amEKSZNeb5yXMnrxF8Wpm « Album - Modern Four-Hand Suites »] entry in Spotify. Retrieved August 11, 2023.

Alan Belkin's Petite Suite for two pianos, commissioned by the Duo Caron,Nina Veronica Schumann, [https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/11427/8032/1/thesis_hum_2005_schumann_nv.pdf Two-piano performance: its classification, history, and challenges, with a compilation of a detailed catalogue of works , In two volumes ], Thesis - Faculty of Humanities, University of Cape Town, March 2005, (346 p.), p.147. Retrieved April 15, 2023.Alan Belkin's Worklist was premiered by Duo Caron in Montreal's Claude-Champagne Concert Hall.

In 1998, the Quebec International Duo-Piano Festival commissioned to Martin Caron a George Gershwin transcription for two pianos eight hands, "Strike up the Band", premiered at the Gala Concert, pour terminer l'événement de façon spectaculaire,[http://voir.ca/musique/1998/08/05/festival-international-de-duo-piano-du-quebec-jamais-deux-sans-trois/ « Festival international de Duo-Piano du Québec »] Article from Voir, August 5, 1998. Retrieved January 18, 2011. such as Mr. Arthur Kaptainis pointed out:

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Duo Caron's recordings include an album of post-Romantic[http://www.allmusic.com/album/wagner-overturemoussorgsky-night-on-bald-mountainstrauss-don-juanschoenberg-transfigured-night-w20978 « Transcriptions for Two Pianos Four Hands »] CD entry in AllMusic. works and another of works by Tchaikovsky,[https://www.discogs.com/release/10163539-Duo-Caron-Casse-Noisette-Nutcracker « Duo Caron – Casse-Noisette Nutcracker »] entry in Discogs. Retrieved February 17, 2022. about which Heléna Bowkun wrote :

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Released in 2009, the recording British Music for Piano Four Hands[http://www.allmusic.com/album/british-music-for-piano-four-hands-w192326 « British Music for Piano, Four Hands - Duo Caron »] entry in AllMusic. includes two new arrangements by Martin Caron of Paul McCartney's works. L’Avantage noted "Précision remarquable[https://archive.today/20150428024008/http://www.lavantage.qc.ca/Culture/2009-10-13/article-3505495/Josee-et-Martin-Caron-jouent-McCartney/1 « Josée et Martin Caron jouent McCartney »] Review from L'Avantage online, October 13, 2009, Archived 2015-04-28 at archive.today" about the interpretation of William Walton's Music for Children. James Harrington from American Record Guide qualified this recording as a "wonderful release":

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Again, in the March/April 2024 issue, Mr. Harrington mentions the high level of quality of Holst's transcriptions and interpretation for recording Modern Four-Hand Suites:

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Their recordings are broadcast on CBC, SRC, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110706202214/http://www.radioclassique.ca/cjpx/ "Radio Classique" CJPX], [http://www.ckua.org/ CKUA Radio Network] Edmonton, and RTBF Radio [http://www.musiq3.be/index.htm "Musiq’3"] Belgium.

• Gustav Holst (1874-1934): The Planets opus 32, Suite for large Orchestra
• I. Mars, the Bringer of War
• IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847): Symphony No 4 in A major Italian
• Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881): Night on Bald Mountain‚ symphonic poem
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951): Verklärte Nacht op. 4 for string sextet ("Transfigured Night")
• Richard Strauss (1864–1949):
• Don Juan op, 20‚ symphonic poem
• Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, symphonic poem
• Metamorphosen, study for 23 solo strings
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893): Symphony No. 4 in F minor‚ op. 36
• Richard Wagner (1813–1883): Overture from the opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

• Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934): Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op. 47
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958): Overture from the opera The Wasps

• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943): Isle of the Dead op. 29‚ symphonic poem
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893): Symphony No. 4 in F minor‚ op. 36

• George Gershwin (1898–1937): "Strike up the Band"

• Paul McCartney (1942- ?):
• A Leaf for piano solo
• Appaloosa-Meditation‚ orchestral suite

• 1992 - Transcriptions for Two Pianos Four Hands ([https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/societe-nouvelle-denregistrement-emc Société Nouvelle d’Enregistrement], SNE-582-CD)
• 1995 - Tchaikovsky for Four Hands (ATMA Classique, ACD 2-2102)
• 2009 - British Music for Piano Four Hands ([http://www.xxi-21.com/ XXI-21 Productions Inc.],[https://www.discogs.com/label/162436-XXI-21-Productions-Inc « XXI-21 Productions Inc.'' »] from Discogs. Retrieved April 18, 2023. XXI-CD 2 1603)
• 2012 - Mendelssohn‚ Transcriptions for 4 hands ([http://www.xxi-21.com/ Société Métropolitaine du Disque Inc./Espace 21], SMD 225-1)
• 2023 - Modern Four-Hand Suites ([http://www.xxi-21.com/ Société Métropolitaine du Disque Inc./Espace 21], SMD 312-1)

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• [https://archive.schoenberg.at/av/tontraeger.php?id_tontraeger=696&action=view&sortieren=jahr&vonBis=0-9998 Transcriptions - Josée et Martin Caron, pianos] from Arnold Schönberg Center
• [https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638%2C283&queryString=transcriptions+pianos+caron&clusterResults=true#/oclc/277155499|Transcriptions : pour deux pianos quatre mains = for two pianos four hands.] entry in McGill University Library.
• [https://cap.banq.qc.ca/notice?id=p::usmarcdef_0001257979 Transcriptions pour deux pianos, quatre mains] entry in BAnQ Catalogue Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
• [https://bac-lac.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1031913803 Transcriptions : pour deux pianos quatre mains = for two pianos four hands] entry in LAC's Library Catalogue Library and Archives Canada.
• [https://usmai-ub.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01USMAI_UB/dvl26m/WorldCat81758711 Tchaïkovsky 4 mains = Tchaïkovsky 4 hands] entry in University of Maryland Libraries.
• [https://www.library.ualberta.ca/permalink/opac/4925968/WEBSERVER Tchaïkovsky 4 mains = Tchaïkovsky 4 hands] entry in University of Alberta Library.
• [https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/424415534Tchaïkovsky 4 mains= hands] entry in WorldCat, Retrieved March 15, 2012.
• [https://cap.banq.qc.ca/notice?id=p::usmarcdef_0000495059 Tchaïkovski, 4 mains = 4 hands] entry in BAnQ Catalogue Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
• [https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=au%3D%22Duo%20Caron.%22&databaseList=283,638#/oclc/49146898|Tchaïkovski, 4 mains 4 hands] entry in McGill University Library.
• [https://usmai-ub.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01USMAI_UB/dvl26m/WorldCat460177458 British music for piano four hands] entry in University of Maryland Libraries.
• [https://music.apple.com/us/album/british-music-for-piano-4-hands/497380961 British Music for Piano 4 Hands] entry in Apple Music. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
• [https://cap.banq.qc.ca/notice?id=p::usmarcdef_0003707312 British music for piano four hands] entry in BAnQ Catalogue Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
• [https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7463876?counter=1|British music for piano four hands] entry in Columbia University Libraries (CLIO).
• [https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948024013503681 British music for piano four hands / McCartney, Vaughan Williams, Walton, Elgar.] entry in University of Pennsylvania (PennLibrairies).
• [https://cap.banq.qc.ca/notice?id=p%3A%3Ausmarcdef_0004469900&queryId=N-EXPLORE-92ec75c8-5cbc-4448-90d9-3da2d1da5fa9&posInSet=5 Mendelssohn - Transcriptions pour 4 mains = Transcriptions for 4 hands] entry in BAnQ Catalogue Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
• [https://usmai-ub.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01USMAI_UB/dvl26m/WorldCat937862079 Mendelssohn Transcriptions pour 4 mains Transcriptions for 4 hands] entry in University of Maryland Libraries.
• [https://www.allmusic.com/album/felix-mendelssohn-transcriptions-pour-4-mains-mw0002497163/releases Felix Mendelssohn: Transcriptions pour 4 Mains.] entry in AllMusic.
• [https://usmai-ub.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01USMAI_UB/dvl26m/WorldCat1443489110 Suites modernes pour quatre mains - Modern Four-Hand Suites] entry in University of Maryland Libraries.
• [https://cap.banq.qc.ca/notice?id=p%3A%3Ausmarcdef_0007183603&queryId=a6a4ae9f-c278-48d7-84fa-fd211445b566&posInSet=1 Suites modernes pour quatre mains - Modern Four-Hand Suites] entry in BAnQ Catalogue Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
• [https://bac-lac.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1443489110 Suites modernes pour quatre mains - Modern Four-Hand Suites] entry in LAC's Library Catalogue Library and Archives Canada.

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• [http://scena.org/pdf-files/sm16-8_lr.pdf L'Art du duo de piano] from The Music Scene by Julie Berardino (French Language), Vol. 16 no 8, p. 26. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
• [https://archive.today/20130628051956/http://www.jmcanada.ca/fr/main_nav/qui-jeunesses-musicales-canada/un-peu-d-histoire/artistes-au-fil-du-temps/ Our artists through the years (French language)] Article from {{ill|Jeunesses Musicale Canada|fr|Jeunesses Musicales Canada}} Archived 2013-06-28 at archive.today. Retrieved September 5, 2024.

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