THE LADY FROM THE SEA: DUOS FOR VIOLIN AND CELLO FROM Vivaldi TO SOLIMA

Giovanni Sollima (cello) & Chiara Zanisi (violin)

After calling it ‘a wonderful album in all respects’, the magazine Diapason concluded its review of Suite Case Violin Duos from Vivaldi to Sollima (A448) with the question, ‘When can we look forward to the second volume?’ In this new project, the violin of Stefano Barneschi gives way to the cello of Giovanni Sollima, the multi-talented musician from Palermo featured here not only as a composer. On this new journey, again beginning with Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Sollima and Chiara Zanisi travel between early and modern music, between classical and folk (the Old Scots Tunes of Francesco Barsanti), with two previously unrecorded gems by the Roman composer Giovanni Battista Costanzi. The entire recording is punctuated by tracks taken from Suite Case, a cycle composed especially by Sollima for this project.

Barsanti:
 Broom of Cowden Knows
 Lord Aboyne's Welcome or Cumbernauld House
 The Bonny Earl of Murray

Costanzi:
 Sonata prima
 Sonata seconda

Glière:
 No. 5 from Eight Pieces for Violin & Cello Op. 39
 No. 6 from Eight Pieces for Violin & Cello Op. 39

Sollima:
 Hatsin yerge
 Lady Lauren

Vivaldi:
 Sonata for Two Violins and optional Continuo in G major RV 71

"These duos for violin and cello are a smorgasbord of delights; the new works by Giovanni Sollima sit beautifully alongside scots folk tunes, Vivaldi sonatas and more. A timeless set."
BBC Music Magazine - May 2020 ****