Kateřina Englichová & Vilém Veverka - Impressions / Ravel, Debussy, Sluka: Works for Oboe and Harp (2017)

Tracklist
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01. Le tombeau de Couperin: I. Prélude - Vif
02. Le tombeau de Couperin: II. Forlane - Allegretto
03. Le tombeau de Couperin: III. Rigaudon - Assez vif
04. Le tombeau de Couperin: IV. Menuet - Allegro moderato
05. Le tombeau de Couperin: V. Toccata - Vif
06. Gabbione per due ussignuoli
07. Pieces en forme de Habanera
08. Reverie
09. Deux arabesques: I. Allegretto scherzando
10. Suite bergamasque: I. Menuet
11. Suite bergamasque: II. Prélude
12. Primavera: I. Lento
13. Primavera: II. Allegro
14. Pavane pour une infante défunte

On their previous Supraphon recordings (SU 4185 - Musica per arpa, SU 4188 - Vivaldi, Telemann, Bach, SU 4121 - Telemann, Britten ad.), harpist Kateřina Englichová and oboist Vilém Veverka sufficiently proved their outstanding performance qualities as well as informed interest in such mutually remote music worlds as the Baroque and the 20th century modernism. The present recording - their first made in dues - reflects more than twelve years of their performing together in concerts. The not-so-common combination of oboe and harp provides an endless scale of timbres and the resulting impression is marked both by frailness and confident virtuosity. Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin is the crucial piece on the album and represents the composer's memories of his friends lost in the First World War. Little musical gems written by Ravel and Debussy resound here in sensitive arrangements which have enriched the compositions by new timbre qualities. Primavera composed by Luboš Sluka was composed explicitly for the Englichová - Veverka duo and appears here in premiere recording.

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