The Mariko Duo

The Mariko Duo is Japanese pianist Yoshiko Endo and British pianist Mark Troop. With a joint love of Japanese culture and romantic piano music they were destined to come together after sharing the same college (London’s Guildhall School of Music) and the same teacher (Paul Berkowitz).

The Mariko Duo plays all the standard duos – Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Debussy – but likes to throw in an occasional dash of the unusual, for instance wonderful works by Constant Lambert, Graham Fitkin and Hubert Du Plessis – and many more!

Our Programme for 2011

Recital Programme

Mozart                                                                        Sonata in B^b Major K.358

Mvt. I – Allegro

Mvt. II- Adagio

Mvt. III – Molto presto

Mendelssohn                                             Andante and Variations Op. 83a

Rachmaninov                                                       from Six Morceaux Op. 11

I –Barcarolle:  Moderato

VI – Salva: Allegro moderato

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Poulenc                                                                                Sonata for Piano Four Hands

Mvt. 1 – Prelude: Modéré

Mvt. II – Rustique: Naif et Lent

Mvt. IV – Final: Très vite

Debussy                                                                                                Petite Suite

Mvt. I – En Bateau: Andantino

Mvt. II- Cortège: Moderato

Mvt. III – Menuet: Moderato

Mvt. IV – Ballet: Allegro giusto

Clifford Benson                                                              Mozart Goes To Town

The print is Hiroshige’s image of the Mariko Way Station outside of Edo (Tokyo). It goes together with the Mariko haiku by the great master Basho (17th Century):

Young leaves of plum,
And at the Mariko way station,
A broth of grated yams.