Duo recital with cellist Mattia Zappa at Ceresio Estate in Lugano

On July 1st, as we rounded the corner of summer, we gave a duo recital with my dear cellist Review: Duo Recital with Mattia Zappa (Ceresio Estate 2023), Mattia Zappa from the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in Lugano, Switzerland, organised by Ceresio Estate 2023.

The audience was quite enthusiastic about our program, which consisted of Bach’s Partita No. 2 in C minor (BWV 826) for keyboard, which Mattia and myself arranged for violin and cello duo. It was quite a challenge, since one is required to have absolute concentration to execute this work.

It was followed by two Capricci by Piatti, where Mattia did an excellent job. Then I played two Capricci by Paganini.

In the second half, we both changed our concert shirts into black to suit Ravel Duo. We had prepared also a short encore, which my Turkish composer & pianist colleague Cem Esen had dedicated to us: “Toccata”.

Stay tuned for our upcoming recordings of this program with Mattia at the Tonhalle in Zürich.