For the 70th birthday of pianist Yaara Tal

Yaara Tal, born on February 27, 1955, in Kfar Saba near Tel Aviv, recently celebrated her 70th birthday. She is best known for her piano duo with Andreas Groethuysen, with whom she has been both professionally and personally connected for 40 years.
Together, they have rediscovered and interpreted numerous, sometimes forgotten works, including compositions by Théodore Gouvy, Charles Koechlin, Franz Xaver Mozart, and Karol Rathaus.
"We have very different temperaments." – Yaara Tal on the Tal & Groethuysen duo.
"Our work is more about homogenizing that without completely giving up our individuality." – Yaara Tal on their collaboration as a duo.
"As a trained geologist, she loves exploratory drilling into the bedrock of music history, where she repeatedly makes new discoveries." – On Yaara Tal’s passion for uncovering forgotten works.
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