Mertz: Guitar Duets / Moller, Fraticelli

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
October 14, 2014
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MERTZ, JOHANN KASPAR
    • PERFORMER
      Moeller, Fraticelli
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 14, 2014
    • UPC
      747313305575
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573055
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Unruhe (Restlessness)

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Johannes Møller, Laura Fraticelli

    2. No. 1. Am Grabe der Geliebten (At the Grave of his Beloved)

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Johannes Møller, Laura Fraticelli

    3. No. 2. Ich Denke Dein (I Remember You)

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Johannes Møller, Laura Fraticelli

    4. No. 3. Trauermarsch (Funeral March)

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Johannes Møller, Laura Fraticelli

    5. Mazurka, Op. 40 (version for 2 guitars)

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Johannes Møller, Laura Fraticelli

    6. Standchen (Serenade)

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Johannes Møller, Laura Fraticelli

    7. Wasserfahrt am Traunsee (Boat Trip on the Traunsee) (arr. for 2 guitars)

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Johannes Møller, Laura Fraticelli

    8. Grande Fantaisie Concertante, "La Rage" (The Rage)

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Johannes Møller, Laura Fraticelli

    9. Vespergang (Going to Vespers) (version for 2 guitars)

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Johannes Møller, Laura Fraticelli

    10. Barcarolle, Op. 41 (version for 2 guitars)

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Johannes Møller, Laura Fraticelli

    11. Impromptu

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Johannes Møller, Laura Fraticelli

    12. Tarantelle

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Johannes Møller, Laura Fraticelli

    13. Deutsche Weise (German Air)

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Johannes Møller, Laura Fraticelli


Johann Kaspar Mertz’s duets are unusual for combining a guitar with normal string length and tuning and a smaller instrument with higher tuning, the terz guitar. The rare chemistry of the two instruments reaches high degrees of virtuosity in The Rage but it is Mertz’s colourful depiction of scenes and moods, as in the impressionistic Boat Trip on the Traunsee, the Schubertian Serenade and the atmospheric Going to Vespers which commands our attention. The three elegiac Funeral Laments are amongst Mertz’s finest and most expressive pieces.