Maya Levy, Hrachya Avanesyan - The Lockdown

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: RCD1080
Barcode: 5065002228024
Release Date: 20 Aug 2021
Genre: Classical

 With their concerts celebrating the anniversaries of Piazzolla and Prokofiev in 2021 cancelled, violinists Maya Levy and Hrachya Avenesyan decided to put their time in lockdown to good use
by recording a programme 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.

Tracklisting:
Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56: I. Andante cantabile
Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56: II. Allegro
Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56: III. Commodo (quasi Allegretto)
Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56: IV. Allegro con brio
Six Tango Études for solo violin: No. 1, Décidé
Six Tango Études for solo violin: No. 2, Anxieux et Rubato
Six Tango Études for solo violin: No. 3, Molto marcato e energico
Six Tango Études for solo violin: No. 4, Lento meditative
Six Tango Études for solo violin: No. 5, Sans indication
Six Tango Études for solo violin: No. 6, Avec anxieté
Solo Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 115: I. Moderato
Solo Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 115: II. Andante dolce. Tema con variazione
Solo Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 115: III. Con brio

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