Debra Stombres - Echoes-Telemann Canonic Sonatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Following the success of her Inchhead-turning debutInch with Orchid Classics in 2022, dynamic young violinist Coco Tomita returns with her new album InchEchoesInch, reuniting with pianist Simon Callaghan in a reflective and intimate exploration of late 19th and 20th century repertoire. Coco first gained widespread recognition as winner of the 2020 BBC Young Musician Strings Category, an event which led to the recording of her debut album, InchOriginsInch, which garnered huge critical acclaim and was selected as one of Apple Music's Albums of the Month. She was named as 'One to watch' by Gramophone Magazine and 'Young Classical Star' by Classic FM, while elsewhere her rendition of Irving Berlin's InchWhite ChristmasInch rapidly amassed over 2 million streams as part of Apple Music's Classical Christmas campaign in December 2022.With works from Ligeti, Janacek, Prokofiev and Debussy, this new from Coco Tomita and Simon Callaghan exhibits the range and depth the duo are increasingly recognised for, while Tomita's revisiting of the music of Georges Enescu, and a duet of the traditional Irish song InchDanny BoyInch with younger sister Yume, round off a comprehensive and multifaceted collection.

Katharina Konradi and Catriona Morison are counting as one of the young, fresh and international well reputated top female vocalists. Ammiel Bushakevitz has established himself in the top league of the piano partner for singers. On the market there basically no recordings of the special genre of duets for Lieder. They are regared as especially lovely music.

A unique recital of 20th-century chamber music, essentially melodic but expressively rich, woven seamlessly together by a Spanish-based duo. In the 20th century, many composers embraced the unique combination of the violin and cello, producing a diverse and captivating repertoire. Deborah Gonsalves and Berthold Hamburger take the listener on an engaging journey from Reinhold Gliere's post-romantic Huit Morceaux for violin and cello (1909), Bohuslav Martinu's folk-influenced Duo No.1 (1927) to Erwin Schulhoff's avant-garde Duo (1925) and Don Jaffe's moving autobiographical suite, The Last Days (2000). These compositions showcase the immense artistic possibilities offered by the juxtaposition of the violin's virtuosity with the cello's depth of sound. Similarly, the duo repertoire of the 20th century shows the evolution of musical language as composers introduced special playing techniques, unconventional harmonies, and rhythmic complexity, pushing the boundaries of tradition.While Gliere, Martinu and Schulhoff are all established names, these works for violin and cello have not received the attention they deserve. They are all products of their composers' full maturity, and perhaps it is only a reluctance on the part of performers and listeners to embrace the possibilities of the violin-cello combination that has prevented them becoming much better known. In each case, the composers demonstrate that no piano is required to anchor the string instruments, when the imagination is fired up, the melodies are firmly shaped and the dialogue engaging. The case of Don Jaffe is different born in 1933 in Riga, of Jewish descent, he eventually became renowned as one of the foremost cello teachers in the former Soviet Union. However, finding postwar Soviet culture hardly less anti-Semitic than the Nazi regime, he emigrated to Israel and later moved to Germany. He only began compos