Ravel, Franck, Ligeti, Messiaen Duo Gazzana

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Album info

Album-Release:
2018

HRA-Release:
20.04.2018

Label: ECM Records

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

Artist: Duo Gazzana

Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Cesar Franck (1822-1890), György Ligeti (1923–2006), Olivier Messiaen (1930)

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  • Maurice Ravel (1875-1937):
  • 1Sonate Posthume For Violin And Piano, M. 1213:48
  • César Franck (1822-1890): Sonata In A Major For Violin & Piano, FWV 8
  • 21. Allegretto ben moderato06:20
  • 32. Allegro07:56
  • 43. Recitativo-Fantasia. Ben moderato07:22
  • 54. Allegretto poco mosso06:39
  • György Ligeti (1923-2006):
  • 6Duo For Violin And Piano03:08
  • Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992):
  • 7Thème et variations10:11
  • Total Runtime55:24

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A sense of discovery is a key theme in the third ECM recital of sisters Natascia and Raffaella Gazzana. Alongside a landscape of French music for violin and piano, drawing on a multiplicity of inspirations, the album includes a premiere recording of György Ligeti’s Duo, dedicated to Kúrtag. Duo Gazzana plays César Franck’s epic A major Sonata of 1886, and Maurice Ravel’s Sonate posthume, written in 1897, when its author was just 22, and the album concludes with Olivier Messiaen’s Thème et variations of 1932, a work which in some aspects prefigures the Quatuor pour la fin du temps. The duo’s performances of Ravel, Franck, Ligeti and Messiaen were recorded at Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI in March 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Natascia Gazzana, violin
Raffaella Gazzana, piano


Duo Gazzana
besteht aus den Schwestern Natascia Gazzana (Violine) und Raffaella Gazzana (Klavier). Beide haben ihre musikalische Ausbildung bei so bedeutenden Musikern wie Bruno Canino, Trio di Milano, Yehudi Menuhin, Carlo Romano, Uto Ughi, Piero Farulli, Pierre Amoyal, Pavel Gililov, Igor Ozim, Ruggiero Ricci usw. in Rom, Genf, Brüssel, Siena, Lausanne, Fiesole und Salzburg absolviert. Ihre natürliche musikalische Begabung wurde durch diese Studien gefördert, ihre Technik verfeinert und ihre Ausdruckskraft gesteigert.

Neben ihrer musikalischen Ausbildung haben beide Schwestern an der römischen Universität „La Sapienza“ studiert. Das Duo wurde mit zahllosen Preisen, Anerkennungen, Ehrendiplomen in Italien und im Ausland ausgezeichnet und gibt Konzerte in den bedeutendsten Konzertsälen in aller Welt: Mailand, Tokio, Rom, Hong Kong, Paris, Singapur, Oslo, Zürich, Stockholm, Kapstadt, Hanoi usw.

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