Bartók & Berio: Duos for Two Violins Maria Milstein & Mathieu van Bellen

• Luciano Berio (1925 - 2003): Duos for Two Violins:
• 1 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 1, Bela 00:44
• 2 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 2, Shlomit 00:34
• 3 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 3, Yossi 01:20
• 4 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 4, Rodio 00:47
• 5 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 5, Maja 00:54
• 6 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 6, Bruno 01:26
• 7 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 7, Camilla 00:40
• 8 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 8, Peppino 01:27
• 9 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 9, Marcello 01:01
• 10 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 10, Giorgio Federico 01:11
• 11 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 11, Valerio 00:44
• 12 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 12, Daniela 00:48
• 13 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 13, Jeanne 01:14
• 14 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 14, Pierre 00:54
• 15 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 15, Tatjana 00:42
• 16 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 16, Rivi 00:57
• 17 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 17, Lenardo 01:57
• 18 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 18, Piero 01:45
• 19 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 19, Annie 00:40
• 20 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 20, Edoardo 04:16
• 21 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 21, Fiamma 01:03
• 22 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 22, Vinko 00:32
• 23 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 23, Franco 00:50
• 24 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 24, Aldo 01:03
• 25 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 25, Carlo 00:42
• 26 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 26, Henri 00:49
• 27 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 27, Alfredo 00:46
• 28 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 28, Igor 00:39
• 29 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 29, Alfred 01:15
• 30 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 30, Massimo 02:18
• 31 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 31, Mauricio 00:58
• 32 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 32, Maurice 01:06
• 33 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 33, Lorin 02:20
• 34 Berio: Duos for Two Violins: No. 34, Lele 01:54
• 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98:
• 35 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 1, Teasing Song 1 01:00
• 36 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 26, Teasing Song 2 00:28
• 37 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 2, Maypole Dance 00:34
• 38 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 27, Limping Dance 00:26
• 39 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 3, Menuetto 00:55
• 40 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 28, Sorrow 02:12
• 41 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 4, Midsummer Night Song 00:43
• 42 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 29, New Year’s Greeting 2 00:39
• 43 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 5, Slovakian Song 1 00:59
• 44 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 21, New Years’s Song 1 02:09
• 45 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 8, Slovakian Song 2 01:02
• 46 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 30, New Year’s Greetings 3 00:45
• 47 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 6, Hungarian Song 1 00:51
• 48 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 25, Hungarian Song 2 00:47
• 49 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 31, New Year’s Greetings 4 00:40
• 50 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 7, Walachian Song 00:44
• 51 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 32, Dance From Maramaros 00:40
• 52 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 9, Play Song 00:40
• 53 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 33, Harvest Song 01:36
• 54 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 24, Comic Song 00:42
• 55 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 10, Ruthenian Song 01:11
• 56 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 34, Enumerating Song 00:56
• 57 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 11, Cradle Song 01:22
• 58 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 35, Ruthenian Kolomeika 01:04
• 59 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 12, Hay Song 00:46
• 60 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 36, Variant of No. 36 01:03
• 61 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 13, Wedding Song 01:32
• 62 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 37, Prelude and Canon 02:26
• 63 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 14, Pillow Dance 00:44
• 64 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 38, Rumanian Whirling Dance 00:41
• 65 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 15, Soldier’s Song 01:06
• 66 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 39, Serbian Dance 00:48
• 67 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 16, Burlesque 00:50
• 68 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 40, Walachian Dance 00:46
• 69 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 17, Hungarian March 1 00:45
• 70 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 18, Hungarian March 2 00:44
• 71 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 41, Scherzo 00:49
• 72 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 19, A Fairy Tale 01:06
• 73 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 42, Arabian Song 01:10
• 74 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 20 01:21
• 75 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 43, Pizzicato 00:57
• 76 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 22, Mosquito Dance (96kHz) 00:39
• 77 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 23 01:25
• 78 Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98: No. 44, Transylvanian Dance (96kHz) 01:58
• Total Runtime 01:24:57

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Maria Milstein und Mathieu van Bellen stellen Béla Bartóks 44 Duos für zwei Violinen den 34 Duetti per Due Violini von Luciano Berio gegenüber. Bartóks Miniatur-Meisterwerke haben unzählige junge Musiker inspiriert und begeistert. Obwohl sie für Kinder geschrieben wurden, sind diese Duos alles andere als kindisch: originelle Harmonien, auffallende Dissonanzen und lebhafte Rhythmen werden eingesetzt, um eine Musik mit emotionaler Tiefe zu schaffen, von der einige zutiefst tragisch, andere grimmig, lyrisch, wild oder feurig sind. Nur wenige Werke fangen die Vitalität der Volksmusik so eindringlich ein wie diese. Wie Bartók komponierte Berio seine „Duetti“ als Lehrstücke und widmete jedes der 34 Duos einem Freund, Kollegen oder Komponisten, beginnend mit Béla, einer Hommage an Bartók. Die Stücke bieten ein Kaleidoskop von Stilen und spiegeln Berios persönliche Verbindungen zu den Widmungsträgern wider.

Maria Milstein, Violine
Mathieu van Bellen, Violine

Maria Milstein
Born in Moscow into a family of musicians, Maria Milstein studied in Amsterdam with Ilya Grubert, in London with David Takeno and at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo (Belgium) with Augustin Dumay.

Maria is a prizewinner of major international competitions both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, such as "Città di Brescia" and "Premio Rodolfo Lipizer" in Italy, the ARD Competition in Munich, the Lyon Chamber Music Competition and the Kersjes Prize in the Netherlands. In 2016, Maria is awarded the Fellowship of the Borletti Buitoni Trust, and in 2018, she receives the Dutch Music Prize - the highest recognition for a classical musician in the Netherlands awarded by the Ministry of Culture.

Maria performs extensively across Europe in halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, BOZAR in Brussels, Musikverein in Vienna, the Philharmonie of Cologne and Cité de la Musique in Paris. She has appeared as a soloist with a.o. The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Hague Philharmonic, the Brussels Philharmonic and Amsterdam Sinfonietta, and worked with conductors such as Vasily Petrenko, Giancarlo Guerrero, Michel Tabachnik, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Christian Arming and Reinbert de Leeuw.

A keen chamber musician, Maria formed the succesful Van Baerle Trio together with pianist Hannes Minnaar and cellist Gideon den Herder, one of the leading trios of its generation. After winning the ARD Competition and the Lyon Chamber Music Competition, the Trio made the ECHO Rising Stars Tour in 2014, peforming in famous concert halls all over Europe. The Trio already released two CD's, both praised in the international press, and is presently recording the complete works for piano trio by Beethoven for Challenge Records.

Maria's own debut CD « Sounds of War », recorded with pianist Hanna Shybayeva for Cobra Records and featuring Sonatas by Poulenc, Janáček and Prokofiev, received lavish reviews in the international press and won the Edison Klassiek Prize 2015 in the category “best chamber music album”. In October 2017 her second album “La Sonate de Vinteuil”, recorded with pianist Nathalia Milstein is released on the French label Mirare, and is voted "best CD of 2017" by the Dutch press. ​

Maria plays on a violin by Michel Angelo Bergonzi (Cremona, ca. 1750), on loan from the Dutch Music Instruments Foundation, and holds a teaching position at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

Mathieu van Bellen
was born in the Netherlands and started studying the violin in Belgium with Nico Baltussen. He continued with Jan Repko, first at the Amsterdam Conservatoire and then at Chethams School of Music in Manchester, for which he was awarded a scholarship by The VandenEnde Foundation. He continued at the Royal College of Music in London with Itzhak Rashkovsky and at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, with Ulf Wallin.

Laureate of the Yehudi Menuhin Competition, Wieniawski Competition, Prinses Christina Competition and Oskar Back Competition he is a recipient of MBF, RPS Emily Anderson Prize, Philharmonia Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Awards and Making Music Awards. He was also awarded the Bach Prize and the String Player of the Year 2008 at the Royal College of Music. He has given concerts in Europe, Asia and the USA, playing in major music festivals such as the Festspiele MV in Germany, and chamber music festivals all over Europe. He has appeared several times on television and radio, and has performed in halls like the Purcell Room and Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre, London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Tel Aviv Opera House, and Megaron in Athens, performing with orchestras such as the National Orchestra of Belgium, Gelders Orkest, Holland Symfonia, Southbank Sinfonia, and Camerata Athena.

Violinist of the Busch Trio, Mathieu is an active chamber musician, having played chamber music concerts with artists including Shlomo Mintz, Miguel da Silva, Michael Collins and Bruno Giuranna. With the Busch Trio he has performed in Europe and Asia, playing in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall London, BOZAR Brussels and NCPA Beijing. They are currently recording the entire Dvorak chamber works with piano on Alpha Classics, and in 2016 they won the prestigious Dutch Kersjes Prijs.

In 2013 he founded the Scaldis Kamermuziek Festival, a yearly chamber music festival in the area of Zeeland in the Netherlands.

His first CD was released in November 2014, with solo works by Bach, Blaha and Bartók. In the same year he was concert master of the European Union Youth Orchestra, working with Vasily Petrenko and Vladimir Ashkenazy including concerts at the BBC Proms, London and Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

In 2015 Mathieu won the Grachtenfestival Prize, resulting in a residency during the 2016 Grachtenfestival. In 2017 he was soloist of the Netherlands Student Orchestra and he was asked to succeed Christiaan Bor as artistic director of the Reizend MuziekGezelschap, also known as the Amsterdam Chamber Music Society.

Mathieu plays on the ex-Adolf Busch G.B. Guadagnini violin (Turin, 1783), using a Dominique Peccatte bow, both on loan to him thanks to private sponsorship, for which he is most grateful.

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