Annie and Lola Totsiou each have their individual busy concert activity, but together they have, for decades, signed many wonderful interpretations of works for two pianos. For this year’s performance at Megaron the Athens Concert Hall they have chosen to guide the audience through influential symphonic works of the early 20th century, seen of course through the prism of transcriptions for two pianos by their own composers. The concert programme, moreover, will feature the first national performance of the two-piano version of Gogol Suite by Alfred Schnittke, arguably the greatest Russian composer of the second half of the 20th century after Shostakovich. A caustic, ironic, occasionally macabre humour prevails almost throughout the suite, so in keeping with the equally caustic, sardonic pen of the Russian writer who (like Schnittke’s music on so many occasions) was a frequent social critic.