Double Play / Rachel Barton, Wendy Warner_音乐专辑
Double Play / Rachel Barton, Wendy Warner
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 1999-10-01
唱片数: 1
出版者: Cedille
条形码: 0675754047221
专辑简介
Rachel Barton returns for her fourth Cedille recording, along with fellow young virtuoso, childhood friend, and Rostropovich prot??g?? Wendy Warner. The twentieth century has proved a golden age for big, virtuosic duos for violin and cello. Violinist Rachel Barton and cellist Wendy Warner, major-league soloists and lifelong friends, present these duos that give equal stature to both instruments. Martinu's Duo sustains high energy, especially in the Poco Allegro third movement, which features a wild refrain theme and bariolage (bowing involving rapid shifting between strings). Fellow Czech Erwin Schulhoff offers a persuasive merger of folk and contemporary elements, combining traditional Central European folk rhythms with modern string effects, such as left-hand pizzicatos and high harmonics. Ravel's large-scale sonata is so challenging that the violinist who gave the premiere chided the composer: "It must be fun writing such difficult stuff, but no one's going to play it except virtuosos." Ravel smiled: "Good! Then I shan't be assassinated by amateurs." Kodaly's Duo blends Hungarian folk materials with the formal structure of art music. Particularly striking is the Adagio's trio-like middle section in which the cello provides a bowed soprano melody and a plucked-bass accompaniment as the violin spins a counter-melody in the alto range Miss Barton and Miss Warner both grew up in the Chicago area, and studied at the Music Center of the North Shore (now Music Institute of Chicago) in Winnetka, IL, where they played in the same string quartet. The two played Brahms' Double Concerto in A minor in 1996 with the Chicago Youth Symphony in Chicago's Grant Park Music Festival, a performance which inspired the Chicago Tribune's Dan Tucker to write, "Barton, Warner are 2 of a kind: brilliant . . . This was a memorable concert; let us hope for more like it."
曲目
III. Maestoso e largamente (8:28)TOTAL TIME (72:40)
