Violin-Piano Duo Recording Project Witraż
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Recording Project "Witraż" (UPDATE) — Shannon Lee, violin and Arseniy Gusev, piano
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We are so grateful for all of your support!!!
We now have enough to cover the promotion and publicity for this CD project and are in the process of working on edits with the producer. We will write another update here when we know more details about the release date! Thank you so much!!!
We are so excited to be making our first CD as a duo this summer with Azica Records and Grammy-award-winning producer Alan Bise! Our project is called Witraż, or stained glass window in Polish, named after one of the pieces in the program.
This program is full of music written during the period between the two world wars, about one hundred years ago, by composers from Eastern Europe. Centered around Bartók's first violin sonata and Stravinsky's Duo Concertante, it also includes shorter pieces by Szymanowski, Lyatoshynsky (transcribed by Arseniy), Martinů, and Bacewicz, which reflect the myriad of ways that these composers reacted to and were affected by the aftermath of war. From Greek influences to impressionist techniques and neoclassicism, there are many imaginative threads to follow which connect the pieces to each other and bring out key elements in this mysteriously, movingly inventive music.
Thanks to the support that we have already going towards the costs for production and distribution, we have completed our recording sessions this July at a wonderful concert hall at Goshen Music Center in Indiana. Prior to that, we had the opportunity to present the project at various chamber music venues, including Avaloch Farm Music Institute, where we were invited to a fully-funded artist residency earlier this summer.
Now, we are able to think about the next steps that would help this project thrive, which mostly have to do with promotion and publicity. Azica, the recording label, recommended hiring a promoter for a couple of thousand dollars. We also have ideas to make music videos featuring excerpts from the CD in order to promote it online. Finally, we would love to continue sharing this music with live audiences by organizing a tour of concerts with this repertoire.
Karol Szymanowski: Mythes, La fontaine d’Arethuse
Béla Bartók: Sonata No. 1
Boris Lyatoshynsky, arr. Gusev: Reflections, op. 16 No. 5
Bohuslav Martinů: Impromptu
Grażyna Bacewicz: Cradle Song and Stained-Glass Window
Igor Stravinsky: Duo Concertante
We are very grateful for your interest and contributions to this project!!
Organizer
Shannon Lee
Organizer
New York, NY