Frank Peter Zimmermann and Heinrich Schiff Play Honegger, Martinu, Bach, Pintscher, Ravel (2006)

Violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann and cellist Heinrich Schiff have brought together duets from three disparate periods -- two canons from Bach's Art of the Fugue; duets from the period between the World Wars by Honegger, Martinu, and Ravel; and a piece newly composed for these performers by the German Matthias Pintscher. Zimmermann and Schiff are each virtuosos, and together their musicianship is stunning. Their sensitivity to the music and to each other is most evident in the Bach, where their perfectly coordinated rubato ... Read More

Violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann and cellist Heinrich Schiff have brought together duets from three disparate periods -- two canons from Bach's Art of the Fugue; duets from the period between the World Wars by Honegger, Martinu, and Ravel; and a piece newly composed for these performers by the German Matthias Pintscher. Zimmermann and Schiff are each virtuosos, and together their musicianship is stunning. Their sensitivity to the music and to each other is most evident in the Bach, where their perfectly coordinated rubato and nuanced attention to shaping the lines make these miniatures into vivid dramas. Who'd have thought that a canon could be so exciting? Pintscher's Study I for "Treatise on the Veil" was inspired by the paintings of American Cy Twombly, and it exploits the aural possibilities in the imagery of veils. The result is spectral and suggestive, a spare montage of ghostly effects that can only occasionally be recognized as emanating from a violin and cello. It's spookily evocative in its... Read Less

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2006, ECM UPC: 028947631507 CD See All