So this afternoon some works by Prokofiev and Ravel for piano, four hands, performed by Martha Argerich and Mikhail Pletnev
I always haul this album out and play it a few times at Christmas every year. The album won a Grammy for best chamber music performance in 2005.
Part of it is Ravel's Ma Mére L'Oye (Mother Goose), originally just a set of five piano duets that the composer wrote for the very young children of some friends. Another friend later transcribed it for solo piano, and Ravel himself later orchestrated it into the score that's probably best known in performance, but he also then further elaborated on it as a full ballet score.
The rest of the album is a performance of Mikhail Pletnev's promised gift to Martha Argerich (doubtless hence the whimsical artwork): a score for two pianos, four hands based on Prokofiev's Cinderella ballet. The score is Pletnev's own selection, arrangement and reordering of sections of the orchestral version of the work.