Utwory na płycie:

• Sonata in C Major for Two Violins, Op. 56 - Andante Cantabile
• Sonata in C Major for Two Violins, Op. 56 - Allegro
• Sonata in C Major for Two Violins, Op. 56 - Commodo (quasi allegretto)Allegro con brio
• Sonata in C Major for Two Violins, Op. 56 - Allegro con brio
• 6 Tangos-Etudes for Solo Violin Tango-Etude - No. 1 Décidé
• 6 Tangos-Etudes for Solo Violin Tango-Etude - No. 2 Anxieux et Rubato
• 6 Tangos-Etudes for Solo Violin Tango-Etude - No. 3 Molto marcato e energico
• 6 Tangos-Etudes for Solo Violin Tango-Etude - No. 4 Lento meditativo
• 6 Tangos-Etudes for Solo Violin Tango-Etude - No. 5 Sans indication
• 6 Tangos-Etudes for Solo Violin Tango-Etude - No. 6 Avec anxieté
• Sonata in D Major for Solo Violin, Op. 115 - Moderato
• Sonata in D Major for Solo Violin, Op. 115 - Andante Dolce (Themes and variations)
• Sonata in D Major for Solo Violin, Op. 115 - Con Brio

Sergei Prokofiev:
Sonata for 2 violins in C major, Op. 56
Sonata for solo violin in D major, Op. 115

Astor Piazzolla:
6 Tango Études for solo violin

With their concerts celebrating the anniversaries of Piazzolla and Prokofiev in 2021 cancelled due to Covid, 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.

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Recording: 51 rue de l’Association, Brussels, 12–14 January 2021