Duo Gazzana New Official Video

Watch the new official video of Arvo Pärt´s “Spiegel Im Spiegel” played by Duo Gazzana, as part of their latest album Prokofiev, Pärt, Schnittke.

The duo’s reading of Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 1, op. 80 opens the proceedings with urgency, true to the composer’s intention (Prokofiev famously declared that a particular passage “should sound in such a way that people should jump in their seat…”), but also with lyrical serenity, casting the work’s third movement in a spellbinding light. His Five Melodies op. 35a are interpreted with equal conviction, while Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel, performed with poise and humility, serves as a thoughtful respite. Concluding the programme is Schnittke’s Gratulationsrondo – a celebratory piece that finds the composer circumventing his usual polystylistic ways and instead excelling in a more traditional approach to the classical idiom.