Portrait: Violin & Cello Duo

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a recital that ranks as one of the best chamber music discs so far this year–and revelatory for those who want to hear what just two string players can do. — American Record Guide, June 2008

Release Date: 15th Jun 2007
Catalogue No: GMCD7313
Label: Guild
Length: 59 minutes

Matešic: Duo per Violino e Violoncello

Work length10:17

$1.50

$2.10

Daria Zappa, Mattia Zappa

Glière: Eight Pieces for Violin & Cello Op. 39

Work length17:51

$8.00

$11.20

Daria Zappa, Mattia Zappa

I. Prélude

Track length2:23

$1.00

$1.40

II. Gavotte

Track length2:21

$1.00

$1.40

III. Berceuse

Track length3:31

$1.00

$1.40

IV. Canzonetta

Track length1:16

$1.00

$1.40

V. Intermezzo

Track length1:50

$1.00

$1.40

VI. Impromptu

Track length1:46

$1.00

$1.40

VII. Scherzo

Track length3:24

$1.00

$1.40

VIII. Étude

Track length1:20

$1.00

$1.40

Wettstein: Roter Raum

Work length6:39

$1.00

$1.40

Daria Zappa, Mattia Zappa

Schulhoff: Duo for violin & cello

Work length17:26

$4.00

$5.60

Daria Zappa, Mattia Zappa

I. Moderato

Track length5:48

$1.00

$1.40

II. Zingaresca

Track length3:12

$1.00

$1.40

III. Andantino

Track length4:35

$1.00

$1.40

IV. Moderato - Presto Fanatico

Track length3:51

$1.00

$1.40

Handel: Keyboard Suite, HWV 432 in G minor: Passacaille

Work length7:36

$1.50

$2.10

Daria Zappa, Mattia Zappa

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The repertoire for unaccompanied violin and cello, if not large, has always been distinguished, as this important new album demonstrates with important compositions from the 20th-century alongside recent works from the 21st, supremely played by the highly-acclaimed Duo Zappa. Here, we present the Eight Pieces by the Russian Reinhold Gliere, best known for his Ilya Mourometz Symphony and The Red Poppy ballet. These impressively colourful Pieces date from 1909. Erwin Schulhoff, a superb composer and pianist, was born in Prague in 1894. After an important musical and political career he was interned in the Wulzburg concentration camp where he died in August 1942. His Duo of 1925 forms a fascinating correlation between Debussy and Schoenberg in a purely personal idiom.

The two works by contemporary Swiss composers Martin Wettstein and Massimiliano Matesic were written in 2004 for the Duo Zappa. They are the most important recent contributions to the repertoire and receive outstanding performances, in superb sound. The final work is a fascinating transcription of a Passacaglia in G minor by Handel by Johann Halvorsen, nephew by marriage of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, concluding this outstanding new CD which Guild presents with pride.

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June 2008

a recital that ranks as one of the best chamber music discs so far this year–and revelatory for those who want to hear what just two string players can do.

Portrait: Violin & Cello Duo

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