Duo Gazzana: Poulenc, Walton, Dallapiccola, Schnittke & Silvestrov

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A clever and largey engaging collection of 20th and 21st century works that look back to earlier times played by the Duo Gazzana with wit, poise and graceful affection. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th May 2014
Catalogue No: 4810894
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 63 minutes

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Schnittke: Suite in the Old Style

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Natascia Gazzana (violin), Raffaella Gazzana (piano)
Duo Gazzana
Recorded: 2013-06-05
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

1. Pastorale

Track length3:42

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2. Ballet

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3. Menuett

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4. Fuge

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5. Pantomime

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Poulenc: Sonata For Violin And Piano, FP 119

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Natascia Gazzana (violin), Raffaella Gazzana (piano)
Duo Gazzana
Recorded: 2013-06-05
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

1. Allegro con fuoco

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2. Intermezzo

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3. Presto tragico

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Sylvestrov: Hommage à J.S.B.

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Natascia Gazzana (violin), Raffaella Gazzana (piano)
Duo Gazzana
Recorded: 2013-06-05
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

Walton: Toccata for Violin and Piano

Work length13:58

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Natascia Gazzana (violin), Raffaella Gazzana (piano)
Duo Gazzana
Recorded: 2013-06-05
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

Dallapiccola: Tartiniana seconda

Work length11:04

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Natascia Gazzana (violin), Raffaella Gazzana (piano)
Duo Gazzana
Recorded: 2013-06-05
Recording Venue: RSI Auditorium, Lugano

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The second ECM New Series album by Italian sisters Natascia and Raffaella Gazzana draws together a fascinating programme with a strong narrative line. On this recording of works by composers from France, Britain, Italy, Russia and Ukraine, older music is viewed through the prism of the new, and affinities are imaginatively explored - through the ages, across geographical borders and idiomatic divisions.

Alfred Schnittke’s “Suite In The Old Style” reflects, temperamentally, upon Bach and Scarlatti, while echoes of Bach’s sonatas resonate in Valentin Silvestrov’s 2009 composition “Hommage à J.S.B.” Luigi Dallapiccola’s “Tartiniana seconda” addresses the music of baroque composer Giuseppe Tartini with canonic mastery. Francis Poulenc’s powerful “Sonate pour violon et piano”, written in occupied France in 1942-3 is dedicated to the memory of murdered Andalusian poet Federico Garcia Lorca.

William Walton’s rarely-heard Toccata, written when the composer was just twenty, bursts with ideas, acknowledging the virtuosic demands of the Toccata form, inviting improvisational responses from both violin and piano in the cadenzas, and drawing rhythmic impetus also from jazz (Walton was an early Ellington enthusiast). This piece is especially significant to pianist Raffaella Gazzana - she wrote a critical review of it for her dissertation at Rome’s La Sapienza University.

The Gazzana sisters studied in Rome, Geneva, Brussels, Siena, Lausanne, Fiesole and Salzburg and received inspiration from a large number of prominent teachers, including Bruno Canino and the Trio di Milano, Yehudi Menuhin, Uto Ughi, Pierre Amoyal, Pavel Gililov and Ruggiero Ricci. They have given recitals in many European countries, Africa, Oceania and Asia and cultivate special relations with the Far East. A previous ECM album, Fives Pieces, featuring works by Takemitsu, Hindemith, Janáček and Silvestrov, was released in 2011.

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July 2014

A clever and largey engaging collection of 20th and 21st century works that look back to earlier times played by the Duo Gazzana with wit, poise and graceful affection.

1st June 2014

This sequence of 20th-century pieces, beautifully played by the sisters of the Duo Gazzana, is nicely conceived, interspersing works that hark back to the baroque with sharper-edged ones.

Duo Gazzana: Poulenc, Walton, Dallapiccola, Schnittke & Silvestrov

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