Description
IMPRESSIONS: KATERINA ENGLICHOVA / VILEM VEVERKA (CD)
Kateřina Englichová – harp, Vilém Veverka – oboe
“On their previous Supraphon recordings (SU 4185 – Musica per arpa, SU 4188 – Vivaldi, Telemann, Bach, SU 4121 – Telemann, Britten ad.), harpist Kateřina Englichová and oboist Vilém Veverka sufficiently proved their outstanding performance qualities as well as informed interest in such mutually remote music worlds as the Baroque and the 20th century modernism. The present recording – their first made in dues – reflects more than twelve years of their performing together in concerts. The not-so-common combination of oboe and harp provides an endless scale of timbres and the resulting impression is marked both by frailness and confident virtuosity. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin is the crucial piece on the album and represents the composer’s memories of his friends lost in the First World War. Little musical gems written by Ravel and Debussy resound here in sensitive arrangements which have enriched the compositions by new timbre qualities. Primavera composed by Luboš Sluka was composed explicitly for the Englichová – Veverka duo and appears here in premiere recording.”
CONTENT
Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin
1. Prélude. Vif
2. Forlane. Allegretto
3. Rigaudon. Assez vif
4. Menuet. Allegro moderato
5. Toccata. Vif
Luboš Sluka
6. Gabbione per due usignuoli
Maurice Ravel
7. Piéce en forme de Habanera
Claude Debussy
8. Reverie
9. Arabesque No. 2. Allegretto scherzando
10. Menuet
11. Prélude
Luboš Sluka
Primavera
12. Lento
13. Allegro
Maurice Ravel
14. Pavane pour une infante défunte
