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Duos from Marlboro
Franz Schubert: Introduction and Variations on "Ihr Blümlein alle", D. 802, Op. post 160 (1824)
Paula Robison, flute; Rudolf Serkin, piano
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56 (1932)
Daniel Phillips, Peter Zazofsky, violin
Leon Kirchner: Duo No. 2 (2001)
Ida Levin, violin; Jeremy Denk, piano
BRIDGE 9203
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This collection of performances from the Marlboro Music Festival spans
some thirty-five years.
This recording of Schubert’s flute and piano duo on Trock’ne Blumen has only been issued
previously on a long out of print Marlboro Recording Society LP. The performance (from
1968) features the young flautist, Paula Robison, matched with the legendary pianist, and
then artistic director of Marlboro, Rudolf Serkin. Sergei Prokofiev’s Sonata for Two
Violins, from a 1978 performance, matches two brilliant young violinists- Daniel Phillips
and Peter Zazofsky. Phillips and Zazofsky went on to become members of the Orion and Muir
String Quartets respectively, and are heard in a bracing reading of this minor masterpiece.
The last work on this recording is the newest- Leon Kirchner’s Duo No. 2 for violin and
piano, in its premiere recording. Commissioned in memory of the violinist Felix Galimir,
a long-time participant at Marlboro, this impassioned composition is given a reading of
brilliant intensity by violinist Ida Levin and pianist, Jeremy Denk. Composed shortly
after the death of the composer’s wife, the duo serves as a double memorial, and is a fine
example of the work of one of America’s greatest living composers.
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