Sol & Pat

 
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WIDMANN / RAVEL / CPE BACH / KODALY / LECLAIR etc
Sol & Pat
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Sol Gabetta (cello)

[ Alpha Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 8 October 2021

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This album celebrates a musical rapport that has lasted for twenty years and, above all, a true friendship: 'We're like two sisters, on stage and in life', as Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta like to say. In parallel with their dazzling solo careers, they have frequently got together for concerts in trio or double concerto formation (like the one written for them by Francisco Coll, recently released on ALPHA580). But they have conceived their new recording for a rather rare combination, the violin-cello duo - with the aim of choosing pieces they found interesting either stylistically or for the way they use the instruments. The programme includes the Duo written by Zoltán Kodály in 1914, which was not premiered until 1924, two years after Maurice Ravel's Sonata for violin and cello, along with a few forays into the Baroque period (Leclair, Scarlatti, Bach) and, of course, works by twenty-first-century composers to whom the two soloists are very close: Jörg Widmann, Francisco Coll and Julien-François Zbinden are on the itinerary of this introspective journey into the generous world of two total artists.

"On paper this may look like an unlikely musical partnership...yet put them together and the result is musical dynamite...this captivating recital really goes into overdrive with Ravel's Sonata...More please!" Five Stars BBC Music

"The beauty of this programme - quite aside from the players' crazed spontaneity - is that it revolves around two duo masterpieces: Ravel's Sonata in A minor...and Zoltán Kodály's Duo, Op. 7." Gramophone Editor's Choice Jan 2022

Tracks:

Jean-Marie Leclair - Tambourin in C Major
Jörg Widmann - 24 Duos for Violin and Cello: XXIV. Toccatina all'inglese
Jörg Widmann - 25 Duos for Violin and Cello: XXI. Valse bavaroise
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Helm 66 VI: Presto
Francisco Coll - Rizoma
Maurice Ravel - Sonata in A minor for Violin and Cello, M.73: I. Allegro
Maurice Ravel - Sonata in A minor for Violin and Cello, M.73: II. Très vif
Maurice Ravel - Sonata in A minor for Violin and Cello, M.73: III. Lent
Maurice Ravel - Sonata in A minor for Violin and Cello, M.73: IV. Vif, avec entrain
Marcin Markowicz - Interlude
Julien-François Zbinden - La Fête au village, Op.9: I. Dimanche matin
Iannis Xenakis - La Fête au village, Op.9: II. Fanfare
Gÿorgy Ligeti - La Fête au village, Op.9: III. Discours du syndic
Zoltán Kodály - La Fête au village, Op.9: IV. Filles et garçons
Zoltán Kodály - La Fête au village, Op.9: V. Pont de danse
Zoltán Kodály - La Fête au village, Op.9: VI. Soir
Iannis Xenakis - Dhipli Zyia
Gÿorgy Ligeti - Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg
Zoltán Kodály - Duo for Violin and Cello in D minor, Op.7: I. Allegro serioso, non troppo
Zoltán Kodály - Duo for Violin and Cello in D minor, Op.7: II. Adagio - Andante
Zoltán Kodály - Duo for Violin and Cello in D minor, Op.7: III. Maestoso e largamente, ma non troppo lento - Presto
Zoltán Kodály - Duo for Violin and Cello in D minor, Op.7: IV. Presto
Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude No.15 in G major, BWV 860