List of classical piano duos (performers)
The term piano duo can refer both to a genre of music, written for two pianists to play at either one or two pianos, or to the two pianists themselves.
This is a list of notable performers who appeared as piano duos in classical music. Most of these pianists performed works for piano four-hands as well as works for two pianos, often with orchestras or chamber ensembles. Some of these teams focussed exclusively or predominantly on this repertoire, but some also appeared separately as solo pianists.
Some piano duos appear under a single name, or a unified name, but the majority simply use both their names.
People in this list should not be added to List of classical pianists unless they also had significant careers as solo pianists. However, if they recorded music requiring two pianists, they should be added to List of classical pianists.
List of classical piano duos
;Sorting note: The main entry is sorted by the pianist whose surname appears earlier in the alphabet, and the other pianist is cross-referenced in smaller type. Where their names are usually referred to in a different order, or they use a special name for their duo, that entry appears in the 2nd column.| Members | Name of duo | Notes and references |
| Stephanie and Saar Duo | |
| Alexander and Daykin | ||
| Duo Berlinskaya-Ancelle | ||
| Appleton and Field | Alan Hovhaness wrote his Symphony No. 45, Op. 342 for them, but they never played it. | |
| seen in either order | ||
| Vronsky & Babin | ||
| Elena Sorokina and Alexander Bakhchiev | ||
| Bartlett and Robertson | ||
| seen in either order | ||
| Bradshaw-Buono Duo | Discography includes: Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Fest-Polonaise, The Entrance of the Guests to the Wartburg, Benediction and Sermon, March and Cavatina and Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale 'Ad nos, Ad Salutarem undam'. | |
| Bizjak Piano Duo | ||
| Duo Boschi-Mounier | "Debussy, Clementi, Mozart, Busoni : Musique pour 2 pianos / vol.2 : En blanc et noir - Sonate / op. 12 n° 5 - Sonate / K. 448 - Fantasia contrappuntistica | |
| DuoKeira Piano Duo | ||
| Franz Liszt Piano Duo | They have recorded Bresciani's arrangement of Liszt's Dante Sonata, and Liszt's arrangement of the Dante Symphony. | |
| Recorded Poulenc's complete music for 2 pianists. | ||
| seen in either order | ||
| Cann Twins | ||
| Duo Caron | ||
| seen in either order | ||
| Goldstone and Clemmow | Made the world premiere recording of the two-piano arrangement of Grieg's Concerto in A minor, written by Grieg and Károly Thern. Also the first recording of Grieg's piano version of the "Homage March" from Sigurd Jorsalfar. They have recorded the piano duet version of Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto in F minor | |
| Clinton/Narboni Duo | ||
| Richard and John Contiguglia | Made the first recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in the two-piano transcription by Franz Liszt; revived Victor Babin's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra; gave New York premiere of Max Bruch's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in A flat minor; made many world premiere recordings of works by Liszt and Bartók. | |
| Duo Crommelynk | They were a very prominent duo, founded in 1974; their three-disc set of the four-hand works of Schubert won a Grand Prix du Disque; many composers wrote works for them. They both died by suicide on 14 July 1994. | |
| De Stefano Piano Duo | ||
| Victor and Luis del Valle | ||
| Genova & Dimitrov | Made world premiere recording of the complete piano duo works of Shostakovitch. | |
| Jordans & Van Doeselaar Piano Duo | ||
| Wiener et Doucet | ||
| D&B Duo | ||
| Duo Egri and Pertis | ||
| Duo d´Accord | Made the premiere recording of Clara Schumann's arrangement for piano 4-hands of Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44. | |
| Ferrante & Teicher | ||
| Gold and Fizdale | ||
| Lillian and Irwin Freundlich | ||
| Yoshie and Takashi | ||
| Gareis & Pohl | European premiere of J.Adams "Hallelujah junction" | |
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| Goldina & Loumbrozo | ||
| Maribeth and Bradford Gowen | ||
| Piano Duo Vis-à-vis | ||
| Duo Tal & Groethuysen | ||
| Margherita Malagoli and Roberto Guerra | ||
| Thomas Hecht and Sandra Shapiro | ||
| Hernádi-Mocsári Piano Duo | Recorded works by Bartók, including a duo-piano arrangement of The Miraculous Mandarin. | |
| Stecher and Horowitz Piano Duo | ||
| Made the world premiere recording of 22 unknown original transcriptions by Sergei Rachmaninoff for piano for four hands after Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty. | ||
| Piano Duo Humburger | ||
| Frances Veri and Michael Jamanis | ||
| Jacqueline Robin and Genevieve Joy | ||
| Heidi and Alfred Kanwischer | ||
| Kapsetaki duo | The Greek/British twins are concert pianists and scientists. |