Hrachya Avanesyan, Maya Levy – The Lockdown (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:56 minutes | 586 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © RUBICON
With their concerts celebrating the anniversaries of Piazzolla and Prokofiev in 2021 cancelled due to Covid, violinists Maya Levy and Hrachya Avenesyan decided to put their time in Lockdown to good use by recording a programme of works by both composers and turning their Brussels apartment into a recording studio. The result is this striking and dramatic album. The music of both composers contains emotions that many of us will have experienced over the past year. Fear, tension, despair, hope, joy – the emotional range explored by the works on this recording is wide ranging but overall, the mood is of hope triumphing. Prokofiev composed his sonatas under Soviet repression, and Piazzolla’s Tangos have the unmistakable bitter-sweet melancholy of the Argentinian soul underlying the sultry and sensual tango.
Tracklist:
01. Hrachya Avanesyan & Maya Levy – Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56: I. Andante cantabile (02:56)
02. Hrachya Avanesyan & Maya Levy – Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56: II. Allegro (03:16)
03. Hrachya Avanesyan & Maya Levy – Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56: III. Commodo (quasi Allegretto) (04:14)
04. Hrachya Avanesyan & Maya Levy – Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56: IV. Allegro con brio (05:47)
05. Hrachya Avanesyan & Maya Levy – Piazzolla: Six Tango Études for solo violin: No. 1, Décidé (03:04)
06. Hrachya Avanesyan & Maya Levy – Piazzolla: Six Tango Études for solo violin: No. 2, Anxieux et Rubato (08:37)
07. Hrachya Avanesyan & Maya Levy – Piazzolla: Six Tango Études for solo violin: No. 3, Molto marcato e energico (03:40)
08. Hrachya Avanesyan & Maya Levy – Piazzolla: Six Tango Études for solo violin: No. 4, Lento meditative (03:43)
09. Hrachya Avanesyan & Maya Levy – Piazzolla: Six Tango Études for solo violin: No. 5, Sans indication (01:52)
10. Hrachya Avanesyan & Maya Levy – Piazzolla: Six Tango Études for solo violin: No. 6, Avec anxieté (04:52)
11. Hrachya Avanesyan & Maya Levy – Prokofiev: Solo Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 115: I. Moderato (05:53)
12. Hrachya Avanesyan & Maya Levy – Prokofiev: Solo Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 115: II. Andante dolce. Tema con variazione (03:33)
13. Hrachya Avanesyan & Maya Levy – Prokofiev: Solo Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 115: III. Con brio (04:24)
