湯瑪斯．齊赫梅爾 Thomas Zehetmair / Ruth Killius: Manto and Madrigal (CD) 【ECM】

Violinist Thomas Zehetmair whose recent Paganini recording from St. Gerold met with overwhelming critical acclaim last year and violist Ruth Killius have sharedmany years as musical collaborators in the Zehetmair quartet. The couple’s spectacular duo performance at last autumn’s ECM festival in Mannheim raised the expectactions for their new programme, a carefully composed anthology of contemporary pieces for violin and viola. Next to Bohuslav Martinů’s virtuosic and accessible “Madrigals”, written in 1946 in American exile, the central piece here is “Drei Skizzen” by Heinz Holliger, a triptychon with the instruments tuned in the scordatura of Mozart’s fomous “Sinfonia concertante” for violin, viola and orchestra. It was commissioned by the duo as an encore piece for their frequent renderings of Mozart’s masterworks on the concert platform. Its first movement “Pirouetts harmoniques” is entirely based on shimmering harmonics, whereas the second one is an exuberant perpetuum mobile. The cycle concludes with a six-part chorale that requires both string players to hum an extra voice. This idea, which is realised by the duo to a most stunning effect effect, was itself inspired by Giancinto Scelsi’s solo piece “Manto” for a “singing viola player”. The programme is complemented by compositions by Nikos Skalkottas, Béla Bartók and short pieces by Rainer Killius and Johannes Nied.

〈Recorded May 2009〉

Thomas Zehetmair - violin
Ruth Killius - viola, voice

【曲目】
01. Rainer Kilius: Ó min flaskan friða

Giacinto Scelsi: Manto
02. I
03. II
04. III

Heinz Holliger: Drei Skizzen
05. I Pirouettes harmoniques
06. II Danse dense
07. III Cantique à six voix

08. Béla Bartók: Duo

Nikos Skalkottas: Duo
09. I Allegro vivo
10. II Andante
11. III Ben ritenuto

12. Peter Maxwell Davies: Midhouse Air (1996)

Bohuslav Martinů: Three Madrigals
13. I Poco allegro
14. II Poco andante
15. III Allegro

16. Johannes Nied: Zugabe

Total duration: 60:38

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編號：ECM2150
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