Martin Rummel - 10 Duos for Two Cellos - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A highly decorated composer in Soviet Russia, Reinhold Glière maintained a low political profile and a conservative but astonishingly inventive melodic style. His interest in national harmonies and folk-music emerges in the Twelve Album Leaves, and his remarkably important contribution to cello repertoire is demonstrated both in his mastery of small forms in the Duets Op 39, and a unique ability to create orchestral sonorities in the Duets Op 53, a rare example of an original cycle for the delightful combination of two cellos. Album Tracks 1. Eight Duets for Violin and Cello, Op. 39 2. Ballade for Cello and Piano, Op. 4; 3. Ten Duets for Two Cellos, Op. 53 4. Twelve Album Leaves for Cello and Piano, Op. 51