Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Alpha Classics
10699931
Release Date: October 2021
LECLAIR Tambourin in C Major
WIDMANN 24 Duos For Violin And Cello: Xxiv. Toccatina All'inglese
WIDMANN 25 Duos For Violin And Cello: Xxi. Valse Bavaroise
CPE BACH Helm 66 VI: Presto
COLL Rizoma
RAVEL Sonata in A minor for Violin and Cello, M.73
MARKOWICZ Interlude
ZBINDEN La Fête au village, Op.9
XENAKIS Dhipli Zyia
LIGETI Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg
KODALY Duo for Violin and Cello in D minor, Op.7
BACH Prelude No.15 In G Major, Bwv 860
This album celebrates a musical rapport that has lasted for twenty years and, above all, a true friendship: ‘We’re like two sisters, on stage and in life’, as Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta like to say. In parallel with their dazzling solo careers, they have frequently got together for concerts in trio or double concerto formation (like the one written for them by Francisco Coll, recently released on ALPHA580). But they have conceived their new recording for a rather rare combination, the violin-cello duo – with the aim of choosing pieces they found interesting either stylistically or for the way they use the instruments. The programme includes the Duo written by Zoltán Kodály in 1914, which was not premiered until 1924, two years after Maurice Ravel’s Sonata for violin and cello, along with a few forays into the Baroque period (Leclair, Scarlatti, Bach) and, of course, works by twenty-first-century composers to whom the two soloists are very close: Jörg Widmann, Francisco Coll and Julien-François Zbinden are on the itinerary of this introspective journey into the generous world of two total artists.
Telegraph:
"Altogether this new CD is a delight, and suggests that “Sol & Pat” is destined to become one of classical music’s most sellable brands.”
"It’s a brilliant pairing, as they are the young(ish) female superstars of their respective instruments, and already have a reputation for performances of blazing individuality."
"the meeting of musical minds seems total, with a wonderful combination of discipline and freedom"
"One hopes the combination will be like apples and cheese, i.e. even more flavoursome in combination than when sampled separately. "
Limelight Magazine:
"Seldom have two idiosyncratic talents combined with such wit and artistry as violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and cellist Sol Gabetta, long-time collaborators on the concert platform and friends off-stage, produce in this effervescent exercise in musical acrobatics.”
"Quixotic, though it is, Sol & Pat is also a vivid display of fireworks and finesse from a crisply recorded duo keenly responsive to each other. Would that all duo performances had this same balance of acumen and adrenaline."