| Linda Guo and Manuel Lipstein make their duo debut on this new release. Titled Pas de deux, the programme features five significant 20th-century compositions for violin and cello. Works by Xenakis, Ravel and Honegger reflect the composers’ French roots, while a diverse, forward-looking harmonic language contrasts with such traditional forms as the sonata and passacaglia, the latter in Norwegian Johan Halvorsen’s Passacaglia for Violin and Cello after Georg Friedrich Handel; Austro-Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff’s Duo for Violin and Cello completes the programme.
1. Xenakis: Dhipli Zyia (4:26)
2. Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello: I. Allegro (5:11)
3. Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello: II. Très vif (3:32)
4. Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello: III. Lent (6:06)
5. Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello: Vif, avec entrain (6:25)
6. Honegger: Sonatina for Violin and Cello, H. 80: I. Allegro non tanto (5:42)
7. Honegger: Sonatina for Violin and Cello, H. 80: II. Andante (5:33)
8. Honegger: Sonatina for Violin and Cello, H. 80: III. Allegro (4:44)
9. Schulhoff: Duo for Violin & Cello, WV 74: I. Moderato (6:01)
10. Schulhoff: Duo for Violin & Cello, WV 74: II. Allegro giocoso (3:20)
11. Schulhoff: Duo for Violin & Cello, WV 74: III. Andantino (4:46)
12. Schulhoff: Duo for Violin & Cello, WV 74: IV. Moderato (3:59)
13. Halvorsen: Passacaglia for Violin and Cello after Georg Friedrich Händel (7:14) |
