O Duo
Owen Gunnell / Oliver Cox
- Label
- Champs Hill
- Catalogusnummer
- CHRCD 017
- EAN / barcode
- 5060212590183
- Verschijningsdatum
- 31 december 2010
'O Duo' are Owen Gunnell and Oliver Cox, two percussionists who bring their eclectic and charistmatic approach to the music on this album. Well-known pieces such as Chopinʼs Fantasie- Impromptu - with its glorious central melody - and the textual clarity of Bachʼs music are juxtaposed with contemporary composers such as the Japanese composer Miki's Marimba Spiritual. There are many other contrasting pieces - for example Mendelssohnʼs Fugue No. 4 in F minor from 1834 and Ter Veldhuisʼ Goldrush written in 1995. Among the pieces on the CD are two written especially for O Duo. McNeffʼs Baristas is based on sounds of a coffee shop, and of which the composer writes, "You only have to see a crack team of coffee-makers to appreciate the comparison [with percussionists] in speed, dexterity and - most importantly 'sound.'" Joliffeʼs Knock About, inspired by people casually kicking around a football and of which the composer writes "At its centre is one simple rhythm, but this is hidden by really fast music, which O Duo manage to pull off with their usual flair."
Tracklist
- 01 Chopin Fantasie impromptu in C Sharp Minor 05:08
- 02 McNeff Baristas 06:13
- 03 Partita No. 1: I. Praeludium 02:09
- 04 Partita No. 1: II. Corrente 02:44
- 05 Marimba spiritual 08:38
- 06 Praeludium VI 01:36
- 07 Goldrush 13:37
- 08 Praeludium II 01:46
- 09 Fuga II for three voices 01:56
- 10 Knock about 05:20
- 11 Fugue No. 4 in F Minor 03:57
- 12 Sonata for piano duet: I. Prelude 02:15
- 13 Sonata for piano duet: II. Finale 02:03
- 14 Praeludium in C Sharp Major 01:40
- 15 Suite for piano: Allegro molto 02:15
