℗ 2014 ECM Records GmbH under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Released | April 4, 2014 |
Duration | 1h 03m 51s |
Record Label | ECM New Series |
Genre | Classical |
Poulenc - Walton - Dallapiccola - Schnittke - Silvestrov
Duo Gazzana
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Suite in the Old Style
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1.1
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1. Pastorale
Alfred Schnittke; Duo Gazzana |
3:42 | |||
1.2
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2. Ballett
Alfred Schnittke; Duo Gazzana |
2:22 | |||
1.3
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3. Menuett
Alfred Schnittke; Duo Gazzana |
2:47 | |||
1.4
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4. Fuge
Alfred Schnittke; Duo Gazzana |
2:32 | |||
1.5
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5. Pantomime
Alfred Schnittke; Duo Gazzana |
3:00 | |||
Sonata for Violin and Piano, op.12
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1.6
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1. Allegro con fuoco
Francis Poulenc; Duo Gazzana |
6:43 | |||
1.7
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2. Intermezzo
Francis Poulenc; Duo Gazzana |
6:22 | |||
1.8
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3. Presto tragico
Francis Poulenc; Duo Gazzana |
5:55 | |||
1.9
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Hommage à J.S.B.
Valentin Silvestrov; Duo Gazzana |
5:17 | |||
1.10
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Toccata for Violin and Pianoforte
Sir William Walton; Duo Gazzana |
14:06 | |||
1.11
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Tartiniana seconda
Luigi Dallapiccola; Duo Gazzana |
11:05 | |||
Digital Booklet
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"Four Stars ... a clever and largely engaging collection of 20th and 21st century works that look back to earlier times played by the Duo Gazzana with wit, poise and graceful affection."
- BBC Music Magazine
"Four Stars ... a celebration of neoclassicism in modern music ... (the) interpretation is both potently emotive yet endowed with a sophisticated maturity ... stimulating and captivating ... engaging and delightful ... a superb addition to the label's uniformly excellent New Music series."
- All About Jazz
Violinist Natascia Gazzana and her sister, pianist Raffaella present their second album for ECM's New Series, uniting works from the 20th and 21st centuries with striking narrative character and retrospective glances at music history. Composers from France, Great Britain, Italy, Russia and Ukraine present earlier musical forms: toccata, suites, canons and variations, in the light of new developmental techniques, thereby revealing similarities and relations across centuries, geographical boundaries and contrasting forms of expression. William Walton's rarely heard Toccata virtually overflows with structural ideas related to the virtuosic demands of traditional toccata form. The cadenzas for both the violin and the piano call for quasi-improvisational skills that draw rhythmic impetus from jazz. Vitality and vehemence inform also Francis Poulenc's dramatic Sonate, here representing the evolution, on a structural and formal basis, of the simplest and earliest musical forms used in the compositions of this album.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – ECM New Series Studio Masters
Recorded June 2013 at Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano Tonmeister: Markus Heiland Cover photo: Max Franosch Liner photos: Evandro Inetti, Andrey A. Tarkovsky (p. 5), Yngvild Sørbye (p. 12), Fred Plaut courtesy of Irving S. Gilmore Music Library (p.13), Viktor Marushchenko (p. 14), Ullstein_Bild (p. 14), Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s (p. 21), Rolf Schoellkopf (p. 24) Design: Sascha Kleis Produced by Manfred Eicher
Recorded June 2013 at Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano Tonmeister: Markus Heiland Cover photo: Max Franosch Liner photos: Evandro Inetti, Andrey A. Tarkovsky (p. 5), Yngvild Sørbye (p. 12), Fred Plaut courtesy of Irving S. Gilmore Music Library (p.13), Viktor Marushchenko (p. 14), Ullstein_Bild (p. 14), Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s (p. 21), Rolf Schoellkopf (p. 24) Design: Sascha Kleis Produced by Manfred Eicher
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.72 -7.00 to 0.00 | -23.73 -27.70 to -20.00 | -20.25 -24.10 to -16.90 | 14 11 to 17 | |
1 | 1. Pastorale | -6.55 | -27.27 | -24.1 | 13 |
2 | 2. Ballett | -1.59 | -21.47 | -18.6 | 13 |
3 | 3. Menuett | -7.00 | -26.77 | -24.1 | 11 |
4 | 4. Fuge | -0.85 | -20.08 | -17.1 | 12 |
5 | 5. Pantomime | -0.09 | -26.41 | -23.2 | 17 |
6 | 1. Allegro con fuoco | -0.03 | -20.00 | -16.9 | 13 |
7 | 2. Intermezzo | -1.82 | -25.75 | -22.4 | 14 |
8 | 3. Presto tragico | -0.08 | -21.55 | -18.0 | 14 |
9 | Hommage à J.S.B. | -0.77 | -27.70 | -21.9 | 16 |
10 | Toccata for Violin and Pianoforte | 0.00 | -20.60 | -17.1 | 13 |
11 | Tartiniana seconda | -0.09 | -23.44 | -19.4 | 14 |