This carefully selected program by the multi award-winning Mare Duo presents some of the best original music written for mandolin and guitar, showing both instruments as equal chamber music partners in works both challenging and beautiful. The Duo's surprising range and variety of timbre can be heard from Funk Pearson's highly atmospheric Mountain Moor, and the intercultural sketches by Thomas Allen LeVines, to Guido SantÃ³rsola's lyrical SonataNo. 6. Ernst Krenek's Suite is a late masterpiece that embraces virtuosity, intimacy and quirky wit, with a dramatic mini-opera as it's finale, while Monk Feldman depicts an elusive ocean landscape in ThePaleBlueNorthernSky.

Tracklist:

Sonata A Dúo No. 6 For Mandolin & Guitar: I. Allegretto Scherzoso
Sonata A Dúo No. 6 For Mandolin & Guitar: II. Calmo
Sonata A Dúo No. 6 For Mandolin & Guitar: III. Allegro Pomposo, Ma Con Brio
Suite For Mandolin & Guitar, Op. 242: I. Overture
Suite For Mandolin & Guitar, Op. 242: II. Intermezzo I
Suite For Mandolin & Guitar, Op. 242: III. Scherzo
Suite For Mandolin & Guitar, Op. 242: IV. Canon
Suite For Mandolin & Guitar, Op. 242: V. Soliloqui
Suite For Mandolin & Guitar, Op. 242: VI. Intermezzo II
Suite For Mandolin & Guitar, Op. 242: VII. Mini-Opera
Mountain Moor (Version For Mandolin & Guitar)
5 Impressions From Murakami "After The Quake": No. 1, A Box Like The Ones Used For Human Ashes
5 Impressions From Murakami "After The Quake": No. 2, The Glow From The Flames Spread Strangely Unreal Shadows
5 Impressions From Murakami "After The Quake": No. 3, A Gust Of Wind Set The Leaves Of Grass To Dancing
5 Impressions From Murakami "After The Quake": No. 4, White Clouds Floated In The Sky... Birds And Dragonflies Cut Acr
5 Impressions From Murakami "After The Quake": No. 5, The Locomotive Is Coming
The Pale Blue Northern Sky

UPC: 747313406074
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 3.12.21
Format: CD

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