They finish each other sentences, in conversation and in music. Brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen have played music together as far back as they can remember. They performed for the Dutch queen as young boys.
As a piano duo, they've taken that symbiotic connection to some of the world's greatest concert halls. "The strange thing is that with Arthur, I never notice when our hands touch or our heads or whatever, it's just a very natural thing," Lucas told NPR's A Martínez. "I could never imagine doing that with someone else or or not doing that with Arthur.
" This month, they are releasing recordings of a set of what they call "tiny diamonds" — short waltzes and lullabies influenced by, and in some cases rejecting, French Impressionism from the late 19th century and early 20th century. There's Debussy's "En bateau" ("By Boat") from his Petite Suite , alongside lesser known works by Benjamin Godard, Reynaldo Hahn, Charles Koechlin and Germaine Tailleferre. It's the first volume in a trilogy of releases.
The second EP, Cantus , is due out in May and will feature works by Bach, Brahms and Estonia's Arvo Pärt (b. 1935). A final release in November 2025 will include both of Edvard Grieg's suites of incidental music narrating the story of Norwegian peasant anti-hero Peer Gynt.
The set begins with "Les décrets indolents du hasard" ("Indolent Decrees of Chance"), the first in a series of waltzes by Venezuelan-born Hahn known as Le ruban dénoué (The Unspooled Ribbon). Binary a.
