Owen Gunnell / Oliver Cox
O Duo
- Type CD
- Label Champs Hill
- UPC 5060212590183
- Catalog number CHRCD 017
- Release date 01 January 2011
About the album
'O Duo' are Owen Gunnell and Oliver Cox, two percussionists who bring their eclectic and charistmatic approach to the music on this album. Well-known pieces such as Chopinʼs Fantasie- Impromptu - with its glorious central melody - and the textual clarity of Bachʼs music are juxtaposed with contemporary composers such as the Japanese composer Miki's Marimba Spiritual. There are many other contrasting pieces - for example Mendelssohnʼs Fugue No. 4 in F minor from 1834 and Ter Veldhuisʼ Goldrush written in 1995.
Among the pieces on the CD are two written especially for O Duo. McNeffʼs Baristas is based on sounds of a coffee shop, and of which the composer writes, "You only have to see a crack team of coffee-makers to appreciate the comparison [with percussionists] in speed, dexterity and - most importantly 'sound.'" Joliffeʼs Knock About, inspired by people casually kicking around a football and of which the composer writes "At its centre is one simple rhythm, but this is hidden by really fast music, which O Duo manage to pull off with their usual flair."
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11Fantasie impromptu in C Sharp Minor
05:08 -
12Baristas
06:13 -
13Partita No. 1: I. Praeludium
02:09 -
14Partita No. 1: II. Corrente
02:44 -
15Marimba spiritual
08:38 -
16Praeludium VI
01:36 -
17Goldrush
13:37 -
18Praeludium II
01:46 -
19Fuga II for three voices
01:56 -
110Knock about
05:20 -
111Fugue No. 4 in F Minor
03:57 -
112Sonata for piano duet: I. Prelude
02:15 -
113Sonata for piano duet: II. Finale
02:03 -
114Praeludium in C Sharp Major
01:40 -
115Suite for piano: Allegro molto
02:15