Song of the Forests | Haenssler Profil PH20013

Song of the Forests

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Label: Haenssler Profil

Cat No: PH20013

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 8th May 2020

Contents

About

Olga Dubowskaja and Olesya Salvytska, who are from Belarus and Ukraine respectively, have been giving concerts since 2005 as DUO IMTAKT. They favour two formation types which are seldom heard in Germany: mandolin and piano, and domra and piano.

The Neapolitan mandolin has been relegated during the twentieth century to the family of folk instruments – despite its remarkable, eighteenth-century Classical past (even master composers such as Mozart and Beethoven wrote works for it). From 1960 onwards, in Germany, the mandolin enjoyed a return to the classical tradition and from 1979 it was possible to study mandolin at the universities of Berlin and Wuppertal as a main subject.

The domra, a Russian plucked string instrument rich of tradition, took on a sort of mediatory role between the noble arts and the aesthetic demands of the population in the twentieth century. Composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev were able to place them in a serious context. As the domra became increasingly popular, so professional teaching institutions were created. As a result, there have been music schools and academies in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine for more than 100 years that train artists to play this instrument.

Duo Imtakt:
- Olga Dubowskaja (mandolin, domra)
- Olesya Salvytska (piano)

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