Dorothea Schupelius, Jelizaveta Vasiljeva - #Wunderkammer (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Kreisler Andantino in the Style of Martini for Violin and Piano
02. Ravel Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano in G Major I. Allegretto
03. Ravel Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano in G Major II. Blues. Moderato
04. Ravel Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano in G Major III. Perpetuum Mobile. Allegro
05. Toch Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2, Op. 44 I. Trotzig, Ansturmend
06. Toch Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2, Op. 44 II. Intermezzo. Tanzerisch - Grazios (Allegretto)
07. Toch Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2, Op. 44 III. Allegro Giusto
08. Korngold Much ado about Nothing, Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 11 I. Maiden in the Bridal Chamber
09. Korngold Much ado about Nothing, Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 11 II. Dogberry and Verges - March of the Watch
10. Korngold Much ado about Nothing, Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 11 III. Scene in the Garden
11. Korngold Much ado about Nothing, Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 11 IV. Masquerade - Hornpipe
12. Weill Youkali (Tango Habanera for Violin and Piano)
13. Morricone Cinema Paradiso Love Theme (Arr. For Violin and Piano)


In November 2022, the winners of the Fanny Mendelssohn Förderpreis 2022, Dorothea Schupelius and Jelizaveta Vasiljeva, will release their debut album entitled #Wunderkammer. The basis of the debut album is the innovative winning concept with which the two young musicians convinced the top-class expert jury of the concept prize for young classical musicians. With #Wunderkammer, the duo for violin and piano embarks on a journey through music history. With works by Kreisler, Ravel, Toch, Korngold, Weill and Morricone, the young musicians explore the influence of the media on music.

#Wunderkammer - the title of the duo's debut album already reveals that past and present are set in an exciting contrast here. On a tour of discovery through music history, the two up-and-coming musicians have selected pieces for their winning concept that impressively show the reciprocal influence between media and music and thus create their own musical Wunderkammer - a term used by rulers and scientists in the Renaissance and Baroque for their collections of all kinds of art and curiosities. Fritz Kreisler's Andantino for Violin and Piano, for example, recalls the year 1923, when Funk-Stunde Berlin AG broadcast music for the first time. Maurice Ravel's Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano was also written in 1923 - at a time when jazz from the USA was also reaching Europe via records. The second movement "Blues" of his sonata is Ravel's second jazz adaptation. Ernst Toch was a musical autodidact and then became a professor of composition. He was a radio composer and one of the first to recognise the possibilities of this medium. Kurt Weill also experienced the blossoming of the new medium of radio in Berlin in the 1920s. He wrote for the weekly magazine "Der Deutsche Rundfunk", but above all he composed especially for the radio. His Tango Habanera was initially an instrumental piece and was only later supplemented with lyrics to become a song and a popular hit. In this song, Youkali is the unattainable island of longing where all dreams come true - an illusion. Korngold's suite 'Much ado about Nothing', Suite for Violin and Piano, op.11 is a 1920 work by the musician and composer who, after emigrating to the USA in the 1930s and 1940s, was a master of late Romantic opulence and shaped the sound texture of the Golden Age in Hollywood. "Cinema Paradiso" is a film about cinema - a homage to the medium and the art form of film. Ennio Moricone wrote the music for this film - from which the duo have chosen the well-known "Love Theme" for their album.

Dorothea Schupelius, violin
Jelizaveta Vasiljeva, piano

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