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Four Classical Duos for Viola and Cello
TOCN0035 (Toccata Next, CD)
FIRST RELEASE (4 April 2025)
Tracks: 11
℗ 2025 Toccata Classics
© 2025 Toccata Classics
Received: 7 March 2025
This item is available to review
Jenny Joelson, viola
Luzi Dubs, cello
Cajetan Wutky:
Three Duos, Op 2
No 1 in C
1 Allegro
2 Andante moderato
3 Rondo. Allegro
John Henry Griesbach:
Three Duos, Op 1 (arranged by Yvonne Morgan)
No 2 in G Major
4 Adagio – Allegro con spirito
5 Rondo
No 3 in C
6 Allegro moderato
7 Siciliano
8 Rondo. Allegretto
Cajetan Wutky:
Three Duos Op 2
No 2 in G
9 Allegro
10 Andante moderato
11 Rondo. Allegro. Menuetto grazioso
For the past two centuries or so, making music has largely been a public business, with paying audiences listening to professional musicians. But for most of western history, outside of formal and religious occasions and local festivities, music-making was largely a domestic affair, with individuals playing for their own pleasure. Most of the music written for the drawing room has long been lost from sight, and its composers forgotten, the two heard here – the Austrian Cajetan Wutky and German-English John Henry (né Justus Heinrich) Griesbach - being cases in point. Their Haydnesque string duos, only recently rescued from obscurity in modern publications, hint at the pleasure their first patrons would have found in performing them.