I Musici Gemelli - The Art of The Duo (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

This album explores the development of chamber music for violin in the 18th century, a time of extraordinary innovation and instrumental virtuosity, with special attention to Italian composers such as Giovanni Battista Viotti, Bartolomeo Campagnoli and Francesco Geminiani, whose never-before-recorded duet can be heard on this album.

The composers of this collection are connected with each other by their instrumental virtuosity and refined violin composition. Duos for two violins are the focus of this repertoire and highlight the musical dialogue and the dynamic interaction between the two instruments. Inspired by the tradition of Corelli and Vivaldi, Viotti, Campagnoli and Geminiani explore elegant melodies and virtuoso techniques. The album concludes with a work by Telemann, whose compositions for two violins clearly set the direction that the music of the following century will take. His duets show how the dynamics between the instruments and the composition for two voices would develop and influence the subsequent generation of composers with a more complex and interactive approach to instrumental dialogue.

TRACKLIST

1. I Musici Gemelli - Viotti: Duo Concertante No.2, Op.29: I. Moderato assai
2. I Musici Gemelli - Viotti: Duo Concertante No.2, Op.29: II. Andante con moto
3. I Musici Gemelli - Viotti: Duo Concertante No.2, Op.29: III. Allegretto
4. I Musici Gemelli - Viotti: Duo Concertante No.3, Op.29: I. Maestoso moderato
5. I Musici Gemelli - Viotti: Duo Concertante No.3, Op.29: II. Adagio
6. I Musici Gemelli - Viotti: Duo Concertante No.3, Op.29: III. Allegretto
7. I Musici Gemelli - Campagnoli: Duo No.6, Op.14: I. Introduzione
8. I Musici Gemelli - Campagnoli: Duo No.6, Op.14: II. Allegro moderato
9. I Musici Gemelli - Campagnoli: Duo No.6, Op.14: III. Adagio
10. I Musici Gemelli - Campagnoli: Duo No.6, Op.14: IV. Allegro assai
11. I Musici Gemelli - Geminiani: Duo for Two Violins, No.2: I. Allegretto
12. I Musici Gemelli - Geminiani: Duo for Two Violins, No.2: II. Adagio
13. I Musici Gemelli - Geminiani: Duo for Two Violins, No.2: III. Allegretto
14. I Musici Gemelli - Telemann: Suite for Two Violins, "Gulliver's Travels": I. Spirituoso
15. I Musici Gemelli - Telemann: Suite for Two Violins, "Gulliver's Travels": II. Lilliputsche Chaconne
16. I Musici Gemelli - Telemann: Suite for Two Violins, "Gulliver's Travels": III. Brobdingnagische Gigue
17. I Musici Gemelli - Telemann: Suite for Two Violins, "Gulliver's Travels": IV. Reverie der Liliputaner, nebst ihren Aufweckern
18. I Musici Gemelli - Telemann: Suite for Two Violins, "Gulliver's Travels": V. Loure der gesitteten Houyhnhnms



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