Apr-8-2009 — Pianists Misha & Cipa Dichter will premiere a selection of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, in the composer's own four-hand version, at the Ravinia and Aspen Festivals in June and August, 2009, respectively.

Before intermission, the husband-wife piano duo Misha and Cipa Dichter played Mozart's satisfying Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat. It was a visual and aural pleasure watching and listening to them pass the intricate passagework between each other and harmonize in synchronicity on rapid runs. Butterman used the expanded orchestration with trumpets, clarinets and drums. The Dichters presented a crowd-pleasing encore, an arrangement for two pianos of Copland's "Hoe Down" from "Rodeo."