Dialogues

Extraordinary artists doing extraordinary things on "Dialogues". We start with a rarity by Franz Schubert, his "Sonata for Arpeggione". The arpeggione was a now-forgotten two-piano instrument, a kind of guitar-cello with frets, but played with a bow. At the suggestion of guitar and arpeggione player Vincenz Schuster, Schu-bert wrote a composition for it, which Schuster premiered a year after the instrument was invented. When Schubert's Sonata for Arpeggione was published posthumously, the instrument had almost completely dis-appeared. The publisher therefore included a celo part and an alternative violin part, which were used for this CD. And which revolve in many variations around a wonderfully romantic, folk-music-like dancing melo-dy, charged by Kreusch and Orsan with finesse, a sense of drama and mysterious magic.