Dance For Two

Featuring

Dorothee Oberlinger
Nils Mönkemeyer
Hildegard of Bingen
Konstantia Gourzi
Johann Sebastian Bach
Morton Feldman

Anonymous
Nicola Matteis
John Cage
James Oswald
Béla Bartók

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Interpretation

The album features arrangements of pieces originally for other instruments, as there is no original repertoire for recorder and viola.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Konstantia Gourzi, a Greek composer and conductor, aims to create a 'sound space in which listeners are given the freedom to discover themselves'.

Compositional Technique

Johann Sebastian Bach's music is so well-crafted that the art of counterpoint remains constant, regardless of the instrumentation.

Compositional Technique

The 'crab canon' from Bach's 'The Musical Offering' is remarkable because its theme reads beautifully and meaningfully both forwards and backwards, and both versions can be combined.

Interpretation

The performers, Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder) and Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), aim to create a dialogue from solo pieces, even dividing the tone colors of keyboard music between them.

Recording & Production

The album was recorded from September 26-30, 2022, at Schloss Elmau, Germany.

Composition History

Konstantia Gourzi's pieces 'messages between trees II' and 'Dance for two' were commissioned by Dorothee Oberlinger and Nils Mönkemeyer and are dedicated to them.