For the past two centuries or so, making music has largely been a public business, with paying audiences listening to professional musicians. But for most of western history, outside of formal and religious occasions and local festivities, music-making was largely a domestic affair, with individuals playing for their own pleasure. Most of the music written for the drawing room has long been lost from sight, and it's composers forgotten, the two heard here - the Austrian Cajetan Wutky and German-English John Henry (nÃ© Justus Heinrich) Griesbach - being cases in point. Their Haydnesque string duos, only recently rescued from obscurity in modern publications, hint at the pleasure their first patrons would have found in performing them.

Tracklist:

Duo No. 1 in C Major, Op. 2-I. Allegro
Duo No. 1 in C Major, Op. 2-II. Andante Moderato
Duo No. 1 in C Major, Op. 2-III. Rondo. Allegro
Duo No. 2 in G Major, Op. 1-I. Adagio - Allegro Con Spirito
Duo No. 2 in G Major, Op. 1-II. Rondo
Duo No. 3 in C Major, Op. 1-I. Allegro Moderato
Duo No. 3 in C Major, Op. 1-II. Siciliano
Duo No. 3 in C Major, Op. 1-III. Rondo. Allegretto
Duo No. 2 in G Major, Op. 2-I. Allegro
Duo No. 2 in G Major, Op. 2-II. Andante Moderato
Duo No. 2 in G Major, Op. 2-III. Rondo. Allegro. Menuetto Grazioso

UPC: 5060640070356
Label: Toccata Next
Release Date: 4.4.25
Format: CD

Griesbach / Wutky - Four Classical Duos For Viola & Cello (CD)