Music for Violin & Piano: 20th Century and Forward
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Label: Etcetera
Cat No: KTC1822
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 14th June 2024
Contents
Artists
Bruno Monteiro (violin)Joao Paulo Santos (piano)
Works
RomanceViolin Sonata in G minor, L148
Violin Sonata in E minor, op.82
Ascent
Tzigane
Artists
Bruno Monteiro (violin)Joao Paulo Santos (piano)
About
"The pianist João Paulo Santos and I have given concert performances of the five works which make up this CD numerous times. Four of these works (the Sonatas by Elgar and Debussy, Luíz Barbosa's Romance and Ravel's Tzigane) were written during the first twenty five years of the twentieth century; Ivan Moody's Ascent was composed in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic. All are masterpieces of the literature for these two instruments, and for this reason we have chosen to create an album that would bring them together, creating a bridge from the last century to the current one." - Bruno Monteiro
One of Portugal's leading classical musicians, Bruno Monteiro is internationally recognised as a "top violinist" (Opus Klassiek) as well as an "admirable artist" (Musical Opinion). For more than 25 years he has been leading an intense concertising career as recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician.
João Paulo Santos is a graduate of the Lisbon National Conservatory. For the past four decades, he has been associated with Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (the Lisbon Opera House), first as Principal Chorus Conductor, and currently as Director of Musical and Stage Studies.
Reviews
Bruno Monteiro and João Paulo Santos deliver a dramatically intense, powerful performance of the Elgar, not shying away from the music’s contentious moments. [...] Monteiro and Santos’s performance (Debussy) is the art of understatement and intimation. [...] This is an amazing accomplishment for Monteiro, technically as well as musically. Jerry Dubins
Monteiro is glorious in the long unaccompanied rhapsodic introduction [Tzigane], he really leans into dark gypsy-ish tones, managing to make something almost mysterious and threatening, and the main section has that real folk-ish feel. There is nothing light and airy here, all is dark and heavy. [...] I enjoyed this recital immensely, and it surprised me in that Monteiro and Santos managed to bring either a new range of colour and timbre to the pieces, or played familiar music with such intensity that it ceased to be familiar. Robert HugillError on this page? Let us know here
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