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Cavatina DuoThe Cavatina Duo - Eugenia Moliner, flute (Spain) and Denis Azabagic, guitar (Bosnia)—has become one of the most impressive combinations of its kind in the world. Dedicated soloists and chamber musicians, the Cavatina Duo breaks convention with their combination of instruments. Add to that their daring choices of varied and versatile repertoire, and the result is new sounds, colors and musical phrasings, which in return awakens a high level of emotion and audience response. A Cavatina Duo concert is a musical experience you don’t want to miss. |
The Cavatina Duo has captivated audiences with their electrifying performances in such major venues and festivals as Ravinia’s Raising Stars series (Chicago), Da Camera Society (Los Angeles), Aix-en-Provence Summer Festival (France), the National Concert Hall of Taipei (Taiwan), National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing (China), National Flute Convention Gala Concert (USA), the Harris Theater (Chicago), Kolkata International Guitar Festival (India), Foundation Principe Felipe and Palau de la Musica (Spain), among many others.
Cavatina Duo has performed with orchestras and string quartets in Europe, USA, India, South Korea and Mexico including the Chicago Sinfonietta, Traverse Symphony, Sarajevo Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic and the Youth Orchestra of Monterrey, Mexico. In 2010 Cavatina Duo gave the world premiere of another work commissioned by them from Alan Thomas, “Concerto for Flute, Guitar and Orchestra,” with the Camerata Serbica at the Guitar Art Festival in Belgrade.
Cavatina Duo has performed with orchestras and string quartets in Europe, USA, India, South Korea and Mexico including the Chicago Sinfonietta, Traverse Symphony, Sarajevo Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic and the Youth Orchestra of Monterrey, Mexico. In 2010 Cavatina Duo gave the world premiere of another work commissioned by them from Alan Thomas, “Concerto for Flute, Guitar and Orchestra,” with the Camerata Serbica at the Guitar Art Festival in Belgrade.
"Ms. Moliner made a terrific impression with pristine rapid runs…a flexibility of phrasing …the music allowed both players to shine equally, and to evince hand-in glove teamwork…Ms. Moliner was a veritable spitfire. No less welcome were Mr. Azabagic’s rich tone, fluid line and soulful phrasing…" IncidentLight.com – Mark Greenberg (2018)
"This was a different chamber music concert: only two musicians filling the temple with amazing technique and connecting with the audience in a particularly heartfelt way....The two musicians together were able to spin a mystical web of swirling cadenzas, irresistible tangos and superb sound..." San Antonio Chamber Music Society - E. Doyle (2019)
"This was a different chamber music concert: only two musicians filling the temple with amazing technique and connecting with the audience in a particularly heartfelt way....The two musicians together were able to spin a mystical web of swirling cadenzas, irresistible tangos and superb sound..." San Antonio Chamber Music Society - E. Doyle (2019)
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July 17 release date The brilliant Cavatina Duo (Spanish flautist, Eugenia Moliner and Bosnian guitarist Denis Azabagic) offer a new disc of baroque masterpieces: Telemann's 12 Fantasies, and French virtuoso Marin Marais' spectacular variations on "Folies d'Espagne". Described by Gramophone as "relentlessly mellifluous" and by Grammy-winning producer and leading guitarist David Starobin as "simply the finest flute-guitar duo on the planet", the Cavatina Duo offer a recording for our times: music at once heartbreaking and uplifting. |
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Sephardic Journey
Spurred by surprise discoveries in their family history, flutist Eugenia Moliner and guitarist Denis Azabagic celebrate centuries-old Judeo-Spanish music with newly commissioned works by Alan Thomas, Joseph V. Williams II, Carlos Rafael Rivera, David Leisner, and Clarice Assad. "The performance of the music transcends the mechanics of its creation, due largely to the mixture of power and grace that informs the playing of Moliner and Azabagic. I cannot recommend it highly enough" The Flute Journal, UK Tango - Astor Piazzolla
Guitar and flute aficionados, hold on to your hats! This is an incredibly hot recording, made by arguably the finest flute & guitar duo currently active. Moliner and Azabagic perform Piazzolla's music with the kind of smoldering intensity and rhythmic panache that has the listener ready to don dancing shoes and Tango. Disc annotator and arranger Sergio Assad writes: "The exceptional partnership of Denis Azabagic and Eugenia Moliner is the result of their very special natural gifts...their warm exciting renditions of the pieces presented on this CD do justice to the music created by one of the most inventive Latin American composers of all time." Cavatina at the Opera
The 19th century “salon music” repertoire was characterized by the combination of hit tunes from popular operas combined with great instrumental virtuosity. The works performed by the Cavatina Duo on this album impressively demonstrate these phenomena, each a medley of favorite melodies from popular operas of the day. As this CD demonstrates, the Cavatina Duo combine peerless technique with sensitive musicianship, making them the ideal interpreters of this repertoire. "With utterly breathtaking brilliance and a confidence that lets them take calculated risks in stride, the Cavatina Duo take us on an enchanted itinerary through some of the most luxuriant music of 19th century opera." Phil’s Classical Reviews"l The Balkan Project
Cavatina Duo expands the boundaries of flute and guitar music with a program of more than a dozen works inspired by traditional Balkan folk songs and dances. Nine of the compositions were commissioned by and dedicated to the Cavatina Duo and are world-premiere recordings.
Ten contemporary composers have chosen, as their points of departure, music from Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Bugaria, and Croatia reflecting the region’s distinctive harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic signatures. The Cavatina Duo, “excellent instrumentalists and sensitive musicians” (Sequenza21.com), has captivated concert audiences worldwide with their enchanting blend of Spanish passion and Balkan sensibility. Acrobats - Music of David LeisnerThe assessments of David Leisner's most celebrated work, Dances in the Madhouse, could apply to all the pieces on this CD of Leisner's complete works for flute and guitar, all composed between 1982 and 2002.
The disc contains three world-premiere recordings, including the playful and haunting Acrobats; Trittico, inspired by Renaissance paintings; and Leisner's exploration of contrasting personality types, Extremes. David Leisner (davidleisner.com) "In many cases, they play my music more beautifully than I imagined could be done. They are a composer's dream." |
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