Performer: Daniel Rowland, Maja Bogdanović
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Challenge
Release: 2020
Size: 1.23 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Sibelius: Water Drops for Violin and Cello
02. Penderecki: Ciaccona in memoriam Giovanni Paolo II, for violin and viola solo version
03. Vasks: Castillo interior
04. Debussy: La serenade interrompue (from Préludes – Book 1)
Ravel: Sonata for Violin & Cello
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Très vif
07. III. Lent
08. IV. Vif, avec entrain
09. Sollima: Heimat Terra
10. Nisinman: Die Albträume des Todes
Piazzólla:
11. S.V.P. (S’il vous plaît)
12. Tzigane Tango
13. Prepárense
Violinist Daniel Rowland and cellist Maja Bogdanovic present an album of works by Sibelius, Vasks, Ravel, Piazzolla, Debussy, Penderecki, Solima and Nisinman, including five world premiere recordings.
Maja and Daniel: We are overjoyed to be presenting this new recording “Pas de deux”, with many new pieces by composer friends – it’s a project that’s very close to our hearts. The great Sonata by Ravel is in a way our kaleidoscope, a looking glass that takes us both back and forward in time, and both of those simultaneously.
Our journey begins with the slightest of pieces. ‘Raindrops’ is a charming vignette by the 10 year old Sibelius, whose love of nature would a decade or so later of course give us some of the greatest works in the symphonic repertoire.
Deeply moved by the death of Pope John Paul II Penderecki in 2005 wrote the Ciaconna in memoriam Giovanni Paulo II Ciaconna, for string orchestra. His transcription of the piece is a self-contained, independent artistic statement: subtle and virtuosic, filled with emotions of a genuinely Romantic kind.
The Interior Castle by Peteris Vasks was a text written by St. Teresa of vila, Spanish Carmelite nun and famed mystic, in 1577 as a guide for spiritual development through service and prayer. The work is conceived as a tryptich of pure, deeply felt, reverential music, interrupted my two frenetic, disturbing, dark passages. The love and belief conquers the dark forces. We asked our friend Craig White to arrange a Debussy piano prelude and he created for this disc this beautiful version of the 9th piano prelude of Book 1.
Sicilian cellist/composer Giovanni Sollima is one of the most colorful, eclectic, musical personalities of his generation. Heimat Terra: the title is based on a beautiful text by the anthropologist Edgar Morin.
Marcelo Nisinman is one of the great tango artists of our time, a brilliant bandoneon virtuoso and great friend as well as a uniquely personal, eclectic composer of music that is deeply infused by the world of tango but very aware of classical avant-gardistic writing. Marcelo Nisinman got to know Astor Piazzolla as a child, when Piazzolla and his quintet used to come to rehearse at his parents apartment in central Buenos Aires. From Marcelo we heard many stories about Piazzolla, his passion for boxing and shark fishing, his motto ‘no risk, no life’ and his larger than life personality. It seems fitting to end this record with three early ‘Parisian’ tangos that Piazzolla wrote while living in the city in the early 1950s.