Thomas Zehetmair - Ruth Killius - Manto and Madrigals (2011)

Artist: Thomas Zehetmair
Title Of Album: Ruth Killius - Manto and Madrigals
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: ECM New Series
Genre: Classical Music
Quality: APE (image+.cue+.log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 49:14
Total Size: 217 MB (Covers)

Violinist Thomas Zehetmair whose recent Paganini recording from St. Gerold met with overwhelming critical acclaim last year and violist Ruth Killius have shared many years as musical collaborators in the Zehetmair quartet. The couple’s spectacular duo performance at last autumn’s ECM festival in Mannheim raised the expectactions for their new programme, a carefully composed anthology of contemporary pieces for violin and viola. Next to Bohuslav Martinů’s virtuosic and accessible “Madrigals”, written in 1946 in American exile, the central piece here is “Drei Skizzen” by Heinz Holliger, a triptychon with the instruments tuned in the scordatura of Mozart’s fomous “Sinfonia concertante” for violin, viola and orchestra. It was commissioned by the duo as an encore piece for their frequent renderings of Mozart’s masterworks on the concert platform. Its first movement “Pirouetts harmoniques” is entirely based on shimmering harmonics, whereas the second one is an exuberant perpetuum mobile. The cycle concludes with a six-part chorale that requires both string players to hum an extra voice. This idea, which is realised by the duo to a most stunning effect effect, was itself inspired by Giancinto Scelsi’s solo piece “Manto” for a “singing viola player”. The programme is complemented by compositions by Nikos Skalkottas, Béla Bartók and short pieces by Rainer Killius and Johannes Nied.

Tracklist:

Rainer Kilius
1. Ó min flaskan friða
Giacinto Scelsi
2-4. Manto (1957)
Heinz Holliger
5-7. Drei Skizzen (2006)
I Pirouettes harmoniques
II Danse dense
III Cantique à six voix
Béla Bartók
8. Duo (1902)
Nikos Skalkottas
9-11. Duo (1938)
I Allegro vivo
II Andante
III Ben ritenuto
Peter Maxwell Davies
12. Midhouse Air (1996)
Bohuslav Martinù
13-15. Three Madrigals
I Poco allegro
II Poco andante
III Allegro
Johannes Nied
16. Zugabe (2004)

Thomas Zehetmair - violin
Ruth Killius - viola, voice


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