Bartók/Berio: Duos for Two Violins
Bela Bartok
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Release Date: 28/03/2025
Celebrated violinists Maria Milstein and Mathieu van Bellen pair Béla Bartók’s 44 Duos for Two Violins with Luciano Berio’s 34 Duetti per Due Violini. Bartók’s miniature masterpieces have inspired and delighted countless young musicians. Although written for children, these duos are far from childlike: original harmonies, striking dissonances and lively rhythms are employed to create music with emotional depth, some being profoundly tragic, others fierce, lyrical, wild or fiery. Few works capture the vitality of folk music as vividly as these. Like Bartók, Berio composed his 'Duetti' as teaching pieces, dedicating each of the 34 duos to a friend, colleague or composer, beginning with Béla, an homage to Bartók. The pieces offer a kaleidoscope of styles, reflecting Berio’s personal connections with the dedicatees.
Disc 1
1: Bela
2: Shlomit
3: Yossi
4: Rodion
5: Maja
6: Bruno
7: Camilla
8: Peppino
9: Marcello
10: Giorgio Federico
11: Valerio
12: Daniela
13: Jeanne
14: Pierre
15: Tatjana
16: Rivi
17: Leonardo
18: Pietro
19: Annie
20: Edoardo
21: Fiamma
22: Vinko
23: Franco
24: Aldo
25: Carlo
26: Henri
27: Alfredo
28: Igor
29: Alfred
30: Massimo
31: Mauricio
32: Maurice
33: Lorin
34: Lele
Disc 2
1: Teasing Song 1
2: Teasing Song 2
3: Maypole Dance
4: Limping Dance
5: Menuetto
6: Sorrow
7: Midsummer Night Song
8: New Year's Greeting 2
9: Slovakian Song 1
10: New Year's Song 1
11: Slovakian Song 2
12: New Year's Greetings 3
13: Hungarian Song 1
14: Hungarian Song 2
15: New Year's Greetings 4
16: Walachian Song
17: Dance from Maramaros
18: Play Song
19: Harvest Song
20: Comic Song
21: Ruthenian Song
22: Enumerating Song
23: Cradle Song
24: Ruthenian Kolomeika
25: Hay Song
26: Variant of No. 36
27: Wedding Song
28: Prelude and Canon
29: Pillow Dance
30: Rumanian Whirling Dance
31: Soldier's Song
32: Serbian Dance
33: Burlesque
34: Walachian Dance
35: Hungarian March 1
36: Hungarian March 2
37: Scherzo
38: A Fairy Tale
39: Arabian Song
40: No. 20
41: Pizzicato
42: Mosquito Dance
43: No. 23
44: Transylvanian Dance