Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival
"Best of the Sixteenth" Live
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Quartet No.3 in C Major for Two Violins, Cello and Double Bass
8. I - Allegro 6:07
9. II - Andante 4:05
10. III - Moderato 3:03
Ani Kavafian, violin
Joseph Lin, violin
Antonio Lysy, cello
Volkan Orhon, bass
Quartet No. 3 in C major for Two Violins, Cello, and DoublE
Europe's most celebrated opera composer during his maturity, wrote his chamber music during his early youth. The title page for a Quattro," known only in string and wind transcriptions befi discovery in 1951, states that their author was 12 years old. At family lodged with a double bass player who was also a patron of ti composer scored his quartets to include him.
Rossini admired all the classical masters, but Mozart provide for his quartets. Each features songful melodic lines and requir, from all players. Most notably, in the rondo finale of Quartet No. cutes a virtuoso solo passage in sixteenth notes to answer the viol Later in the movement the second violin is showcased by bravura passagework.
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Osvaldo Golijov (b.1960)
"Last Round" for String Nonet
11. Movido, urgente 6:00
12. Muertes Del Angel 6:25
Pacifica Quartet
Ani Kavafian, violin
Joseph Lin, violin
Paul Coletti, viola
Antonio Lysy, cello
Volkan Orhon, bass
American composer Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960) spent his youth in Argentina, where he absorbed both classical chamber music and the new tango style of Astor Piazzolla. Golijov writes: "Astor Piazzolla, the last great tango composer, was at the peak of his creativity when a stroke killed him in 1992. He left us, in the words of the old tango, 'without saying goodbye,' and that's the day the musical face of Buenos Aires was abruptly frozen.
"I composed 'Last Round' in 1996 and borrowed the title from Julio Cortazar's short story on boxing. My work imagines that Piazzolla's spirit has the chance to fight one more time (he used to get into fist fights throughout his life). The piece is conceived as an idealized bandoneon. The first movement represents the act of violent compression and the second a final, seemingly endless sigh. But 'Last Round' is also a sublimated tango dance. Two quartets confront each other, separated by the focal bass. Violin and viola bows fly in crisscrossed choreography,always in danger of clashing but avoiding this with the immutability acquired by transforming hot passion into pure pattern."
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This CD also has a great selection of other chamber works performed by great artists.
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Gabriel Faure -Piano Quartet in C minor Op.15
Ani Kavafian, violin
Paul Coletti, viola
Peter Rejto, cello
Bernadette Balkus, piano
* Pierre Jalbert - Invention of the Saxophone
Ashu, Saxophone
Bernadette Balkus, piano
Billy Collins, narrator
* Ross Edwards - "Binyang" for Clarinet and Percussion
Richard Hawkins, clarinet
Gary Cook, percussion
Produced by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
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Notes: Nancy Monsman Recording/Mastering: Matthew Snyder
Design: GroundZero Cover Illustration: Brenda Semanick
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