Georgy Sviridov:
Ural Tune (arr. Smirnova/Manaev)
Time, Forward! (arr. Smirnova/Manaev)
Chastushka (arr. Smirnova/Manaev)

Johanna Doderer:
Volcano, DWV101

Zoltan Kodaly:
Duo, Op. 7

Aziza Sadikova:
For Stradivari

Ondrej Kukal:
Present, Op. 12

Violinist Julia Smirnova and cellist Konstantin Manaev are a duo not only on the concert stage, but also in their private lives. "We play two instruments and have two temperaments," they say, "we embody yin and yang, as it were. All the works on this CD are directly related to our artistic lives and open the doors to our musical world." The duo prefers contemporary music "that touches the audience's feelings." It is music that has a lot of songfulness in it - and it is pieces by composing people who belong not only to the spatial and temporal, but beyond that to the emotional neighborhood of the performers.

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Recording: Andreaskirche in Berlin Wannsee, 12–14.10.2020. Julia Smirnova plays a violin by Antonio Gragnani from 1790. Konstantin Manaev plays a cello by Johannes Theodorus Cuypers from 1762.