Duo Sessions

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Duo SessionsOpis:Product DescriptionThe works heard in this programme some of the most important works written for violin and cello were written surprisingly late, some of them a decade or more after the dawn of the Modern era: Kodály 1914; Ravel 1922; Schulhoff 1925. Although these three works can scarcely be regarded as avant-garde for their time, at least where their tonality is concerned, a new spirit is in the air: a freely ranging search on all levels for new forms and means of expression, coupled with a love of experimentation with extremely sparse scoring. It is also noteworthy that all three works succeed in their own way in reflecting a national character in their musical idiom. Ravel offers typical trompe-l'oreille subtlety while retaining immaculately groomed French elegance; Kodály writes against a background of ethnological research in folk music; Schulhoff stands out for the way he experiments with complex combinations of rhythms. However, the pioneering work in a distinctive violin-cello repertoire was surely written a generation earlier: Brahms's concerto for this 'eight-stringed giant' of 1887. It was a performance of his work that brought Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott together on the concert platform for the first time. In fact, both artists wish this CD release to represent a record of their work together as a duo over the past ten years and more, as the pair explain in an extended conversation with Meret Forster printed in the accompanying booklet. It is already the case that performances of the Brahms Double Concerto by Fischer and Müller-Schott now almost inevitably lead the audience to expect the immortal Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia of 1894 a demand that is gladly met. This congenial enlargement by the Norwegian violinist and composer Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935) of a passacaglia from a Handel suite for harpsichord exists in various pairings of violin, viola and cello. It accentuates the infectious vigour of the original in a remarkably clever manner by its highly challenging but idiomatic transposition to two quite differently characterized and mutually supportive instruments.

ReviewAlbum of the week. The repertoire for unaccompanied violin and cello duos may be small, but it includes at least two masterpieces: Ravel's Sonata, written in 1922 and dedicated to the memory of Claude Debussy; and Kodaly's Duo, from 1914. Fischer and Müller-Schott two of Germany's, and hence the world's, finest string players have joined forces for these works for at least 12 years , after regular invitations to play Brahms's Double Concerto. They share an easy rapport, they revel in the gypsy influences that pervade, especially, Kodaly's work, and to a lesser extent Ravel's, and they make the finest possible case for regarding Erwin Schulhoff who died in a Bavarian concentration camp in 1942 not merely as one of the great might-have-been composers, but as a masterly writer of chamber works. This is gritty music played with a probing intensity and a spectrum of colour, the players equal to all the challenges the composers throw at them. They offer a consoling encore: Johann Halfvorsen's Passacaglia (after Handel), a neo-baroque arrangement for their instruments that they often perform after the Brahms Double. --Sunday Times, 31.07/16The two instruments may be cornerstones of orchestral and chamber music, and both have such significant solo repertories of their own, but the music composed for violin and cello together remains inexplicably scanty. Composers shy away from such an exposed medium, which gives them neither the option of writing a bravura showpiece for a solo instrument, or of taking refuge in the more complex textures that adding extra instruments would provide. Some are facing up to the challenge both Jörg Widmann and Mark-Anthony Turnage have recently written duos, for instance but when putting together programmes for a recital or a disc, the starting point remains the two 20th-century masterpieces for violin anAutor:Fischer/Muller-SchottNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: EnglishData wydania: 2016-09-08Waga: 0.22 gramWysokość: 0.4 cmSzerokość: 5 cmDługość: 5.6 cmShrink-wrappedUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.