Composer: Astor Piazzólla, Sergei Prokofiev
Performer: Maya Levy, Hrachya Avanesyan
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Rubicon
Catalogue: RCD1080
Release: 2021
Size: 962 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56
01. I. Andante cantabile
02. II. Allegro
03. III. Commodo (quasi Allegretto)
04. IV. Allegro con brio
Piazzólla: Tango Etudes
05. No. 1, Décidé
06. No. 2, Anxieux et Rubato
07. No. 3, Molto marcato e energico
08. No. 4, Lento meditative
09. No. 5, Sans indication
10. No. 6, Avec anxieté
Prokofiev: Sonata in D major for solo violin, Op. 115
11. I. Moderato
12. II. Andante dolce. Tema con variazione
13. III. Con brio
With their concerts celebrating the anniversaries of Piazzolla and Prokofiev in 2021 cancelled due to Covid, violinists Maya Levy and Hrachya Avenesyan decided to put their time in Lockdown to good use by recording a program of works by both composers and turning their Brussels apartment into a recording studio. The result is this striking and dramatic album. The music of both composers contains emotions that many of us will have experienced over the past year. Fear, tension, despair, hope, joy – the emotional range explored by the works on this recording is wide ranging but overall, the mood is of hope triumphing. Prokofiev composed his sonatas under Soviet repression, and Piazzolla’s tangos have the unmistakable bitter-sweet melancholy of the Argentinian soul underlying the sultry and sensual tango.