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TROTOVSEK & CANYIGUERAL

"THE TRUE FEEL OF LIVE INTUITIVE PERFORMANCE"

- THE STRAD

" A DUO THAT UNDOUBTEDLY BELONGS TO THE FIRST CLASS OF CHAMBER MUSIC INTERPRETERS" - NUVOL 

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THE DUO

The Strad has described one of their recitals at the Wigmore Hall as "remarkable" and highlighted their "true feeling of live intuitive performance". In August 2020 Trotovšek and Canyigueral recorded and performed all Beethoven Violin Sonatas in three consecutive evenings at the 68th Ljubljana Festival, which was followed by Prešeren Fund Award for Lana Trotovšek, the highest recognition in the Republic of Slovenia for achievements in the field of artistic creation . The recitals were published on 4 CDs under the Slovenian Radio and TV label ZKP in collaboration with Festival Ljubljana. The CDs received 5 stars in the Musical Opinion magazine (UK), an outstanding review in Revista Musical Catalana and "Melomano de oro" in the Melomano magazine. Lana Trotovsek and Maria Canyigueral began their collaboration in 2014 embarking on the CD recording project including works by Granados, Škerjanc, Finzi and Franck, for which they received a Gold Medal at the Global Music Awards in California in 2016. Since then they have performed across UK, Japan, France, Belgium, Spain and Slovenia. In May 2023 they premiered works by Catalan composer Jordi Cervello in Barcelona's L'Auditori, receiving a standing ovation and a rave review. The concert was broadcast by Spanish National Radio. Their recent CD Prokofiev Milestones Vol.1, was released by SOMM Recordings in January 2024. ​

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LANA TROTOVSEK

Lana Trotovšek was a student of Ruggiero Ricci. She made her solo debut with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in 2012. Since then she performed concertos with orchestras such as the Moscow Soloists and Yuri Bashmet, the London Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda, the Shanghai Philharmonic under Tan Dun, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Rafael Payare and Vasily Petrenko. She also performed concertos with several orchestras in the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center at the Shanghai International Spring Festival and in Nanjing, Qingdao and Chengdu. Lana has toured the USA, where she was described as "Radiant" by the Washington Post and "an emerging voice to watch" by the Philadelphia Inquirer. She has also appeared in Japan touring in Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya and Yokohama, where she performed in Minato Mirai Hall. In 2020 her performance of violin concerto by Deirdre Gribbin with the Ulster Orchestra, was broadcast on radio BBC 3. Following summer she performed the complete Beethoven violin sonatas in three consecutive concerts with her duo partner pianist Maria Canyigueral at the Ljubljana Festival for which she was awarded the Prešeren Fund Award. In February 2021 it was Lana's fourth appearance at the Wigmore Hall, this time an online broadcast on Classic FM with over 500 thousand views, where she performed all the Beethoven program with pianist Maria Canyigueral. Lana has recorded all Brahms piano trios with the Greenwich trio in 2022. The first volume published in March 2023 has received a 5 star review in the BBC Music Magazine.

 

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MARIA CANYIGUERAL

Maria Canyigueral has been described by Pizzicato as a pianist who »convinces with a finely nuanced sensitive playing, that one wants to listen to« and »Pianist of great personality« by La Vanguardia. Maria Canyigueral has inspired collaborations with outstanding contemporary composers such as Antón García Abril, Benet Casablancas, Nicolas Bacri and Konstantia Gourzi. Recent highlights include recitals at Palau de la Música Catalana and Auditori Barcelona, at Fundación Juan March, at the Wigmore Hall and Ljubljana Festival. She recently made her debut at Gran Teatre del Liceu performing Beethoven Choral Fantasy Op.80 with Fundació Liceu orquestra and Manel Valdivieso. Maria has performed in Spain, the UK, Japan, Belgium, Slovenia and France. In addition to her live performances, Maria has made an impact with her recordings. Her solo album Avantguarding Mompou for Audite (2020) has been critically acclaimed by International Piano, Pizzicato, Revista Musical Catalana and Melómano. The project was awarded by Arts Council and supported by Instituto Cervantes, Fundació Mompou and Institut Ramon Llull.  Trotovsek-Canyigueral first album (Hedone Records, 2016) received a Gold Medal at the Global Music Awards. She recorded two more albums for Hedone Records (2017, 2021), one alongside flutist Boris Bizjak and a recent live recording from a solo recital at Palau de la Música Catalana. Her live performances with Lana Trotovsek at Festival Ljubljana 2020 of the complete Sonatas for violin and piano by Beethoven were published by ZKP RTV (2021).  The recordings were awarded 'Melómano de Oro'. Canyigueral-Bassal Beethoven complete works for cello and piano for Da Vinci Classics (2023) is the recipient of ‘Melómano de Oro’ and nominated for the ICMA awards 2024.

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VIDEOS

Wigmore Hall recital 21.02.21 - excerpt
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Wigmore Hall recital 21.02.21 - excerpt

An excerpt from the Wigmore Hall recital on 21.02.21
Beethoven: Violin Sonata no. 7 in C minor, op. 30 no. 2 Lana Trotovsek, Maria Canyigueral
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Beethoven: Violin Sonata no. 7 in C minor, op. 30 no. 2 Lana Trotovsek, Maria Canyigueral

L van Beethoven: Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano no. 7 in C minor, op. 30 no. 2 @LanaTrotovsek , violin Maria Canyigueral, piano 00:00 Allegro con brio 09:09 Adagio cantabile 19:45 Scherzo: Allegro 23:32 Finale: Allegro; Presto The Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven, the second of his Op. 30 set, was composed between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803, and dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia. Live recording from the complete cycle at the 68th Ljubljana Festival, 3.8.2020 Sound engineering: Hedone records http://www.hedonerecords.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/borisbizjak https://www.facebook.com/boris.bizjak.5 Subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bizjakboris
Lana Trotovsek, Maria Canyigueral - Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80
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Lana Trotovsek, Maria Canyigueral - Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80

Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for violin and piano No.1 in F minor, Op.80 00:00 Andante assai 07:19 Allegro brusco 15:19 Andante 23:56 Allegrissimo - Andante assai, come prima Lana Trotovsek, violin Maria Canyigueral, piano Recorded at Wigmore Hall, London 2019. http://www.hedonerecords.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/borisbizjak https://www.facebook.com/boris.bizjak.5 Subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bizjakboris
Beethoven Violin Sonata No.5 Op.24 "Spring" Lana Trotovsek, Maria Canyigueral
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Beethoven Violin Sonata No.5 Op.24 "Spring" Lana Trotovsek, Maria Canyigueral

L van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano Op.24, No.5 in F major "Spring" Lana Trotovsek, violin Maria Canyigueral, piano 00:00 Allegro 09:53 Adagio molto espressivo 16:08 Scherzo: Allegro molto 17:30 Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo The Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24, is a violin sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is often known as the "Spring Sonata" (Frühlingssonate), and was published in 1801. It was dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom Beethoven also dedicated two other works of the same year—the String Quintet in C major, Op. 29 and the Violin Sonata No. 4—as well as his later Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92. Live recording from the complete cycle at the 68th Ljubljana Festival, 3.8.2020 Sound engineering: Hedone records http://www.hedonerecords.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/borisbizjak https://www.facebook.com/boris.bizjak.5 Subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bizjakboris
Beethoven Violin Sonata No.6 in A major, op.30 no.1 Lana Trotovsek, Maria Canyigueral
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Beethoven Violin Sonata No.6 in A major, op.30 no.1 Lana Trotovsek, Maria Canyigueral

L van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano No.6 in A major, Op.30 no.1 Lana Trotovsek, violin Maria Canyigueral, piano The Violin Sonata No. 6 of Ludwig van Beethoven in A major, the first of his Opus 30 set, was composed between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803, and dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia. It has three movements: 00:00 Allegro 08:05 Adagio molto espressivo 16:05 Allegretto con variazioni http://www.lanaviolin.com http://www.mariacanyigueral.co.uk http://www.hedonerecords.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/borisbizjak https://www.facebook.com/boris.bizjak.5 Subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bizjakboris
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (original version with piano)
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Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (original version with piano)

@LanaTrotovsek , violin Maria Canyigueral, piano Recorded live at Leamington Music Festival in April 2022
Franck Violin Sonata - Lana Trotovsek and Maria Canyigueral
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Franck Violin Sonata - Lana Trotovsek and Maria Canyigueral

Cesar Franck: Violin Sonata in A major Lana Trotovsek, violin Maria Canyigueral, piano Live performance from Casa de Cultura de Girona Recorded by Hedone Records The Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano by César Franck is one of his best-known compositions, and considered one of the finest sonatas for violin and piano ever written. It is an amalgam of his rich native harmonic language with the Classical traditions he valued highly, held together in a cyclic framework. The Violin Sonata in A was written in 1886, when Franck was 63, as a wedding present for the 31-year-old violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.[1] Twenty-eight years earlier, in 1858, Franck had promised a violin sonata for Cosima von Bülow. This never saw the light of day, but it has been speculated that whatever work Franck had done on that piece was put aside and eventually ended up in the sonata he wrote for Ysaÿe in 1886. Franck presented the work to Ysaÿe on the morning of his wedding on 26 September 1886. After a hurried rehearsal, Ysaÿe and the pianist Léontine Bordes-Pène, a wedding guest, played the Sonata to the other wedding guests. The Sonata was given its first public concert performance on 16 December of that year, at the Musée Moderne de Peinture (Museum of Modern Painting) at Brussels. Eugène Ysaÿe and Léontine Bordes-Pène were again the performers. The Sonata was the final item in a long program that started at 3 pm. When it came time for the Sonata, it was now dusk and the gallery was bathed in gloom, but the gallery authorities permitted no artificial light whatsoever. Initially, it seemed the Sonata would have to be abandoned, but Ysaÿe and Bordes-Pène decided to press on regardless. In the event, they had to play the last three movements in virtual darkness, from memory. Vincent d'Indy, who was present, recorded these details of the event. Ysaÿe kept the Violin Sonata in his repertoire for the next 40 years of his life. His championing of the Sonata contributed to the public recognition of Franck as a major composer. This recognition was quite belated, as Franck would be dead within 4 years, and did not have his first unqualified public success until the last year of his life (19 April 1890, at the Salle Pleyel, where his String Quartet in D was premiered). The Franck Sonata regularly appears on concert programs and on recordings and is in the core repertoire of all major violinists. Jascha Heifetz played the Sonata in A at his final recital in 1972.
Beethoven Violin Sonata No.9 Op.47 Kreutzer - Lana Trotovsek & Maria Canyigueral
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Beethoven Violin Sonata No.9 Op.47 Kreutzer - Lana Trotovsek & Maria Canyigueral

L.van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.9 Op.47, Kreutzer Lana Trotovsek, violin www.lanaviolin.com Maria Canyigueral, piano www.mariacanyigueral.co.uk 00:00 Adagio sostenuto – Presto 12:10 Andante con variazioni 26:38 Presto Live recording from Wigmore Hall, 22.07.2019 The Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a sonata for piano and violin notable for its technical difficulty, unusual length, and emotional scope. It is commonly known as the Kreutzer Sonata after the violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer, to whom it was ultimately dedicated, but who thoroughly disliked the piece and refused to play it. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreutzer_Sonata ) The sonata was originally dedicated to the violinist George Bridgetower (1778–1860) as "Sonata mulattica composta per il mulatto Brischdauer [Bridgetower], gran pazzo e compositore mulattico" (Mulatto Sonata composed for the mulatto Brischdauer, great madman mulatto composer). Shortly after completion the work was premiered by Bridgetower and Beethoven on 24 May 1803 at the Augarten Theatre at a concert that started at the unusually early hour of 8:00 am. Bridgetower sight-read the sonata; he had never seen the work before, and there had been no time for any rehearsal. After the premiere performance Beethoven and Bridgetower fell out: while the two were drinking, Bridgetower apparently insulted the morals of a woman whom Beethoven cherished. Enraged, Beethoven removed the dedication of the piece, dedicating it instead to Rodolphe Kreutzer, who was considered the finest violinist of the day. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreutzer_Sonata ) http://www.hedonerecords.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/borisbizjak https://www.facebook.com/boris.bizjak.5 Subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bizjakboris

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BEETHOVEN AND HIS VIOLIN SONATAS
presented by TROTOVSEK CANYIGUERAL DUO and CATHERINE BOTT 

The established Trotovsek-Canyigueral duo collaborates with renowned broadcaster Catherine Bott to present the exquisite complete cycle of Sonatas for violin and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven. 
Radio, like music, shares the ephemeral beauty and magic of a live event and the ability to tell stories by capturing audiences attention through the power of listening.
This project resembles a broadcasting like experience. Words and music harmonize, intertwining to convey the artistic journey in its full luminosity and expressive vigor to the listener.

SUGGESTED PROGRAMMES 

A) The complete cycle presented in three concerts 


Concert 1

Introduction by Catherine Bott

Sonata Op.12 n.1 by L. van Beethoven

Sonata Op.12 n.3 by L. van Beethoven

Interval

Introduction by Catherine Bott

Sonata Op.23 n.4 by L. van Beethoven

Sonata Op.24 n.5 by L. van Beethoven

Post concert talk with the musicians

Concert 2

Introduction by Catherine Bott

Sonata Op.12 n.2 by L. van Beethoven

Sonata Op.30 n.1 by L. van Beethoven

Interval

Introduction by Catherine Bott

Sonata Op.47 n.9 by L. van Beethoven

Post concert talk with the musicians

Concert 3

Introduction by Catherine Bott

Sonata Op.30 n.3 by L. van Beethoven

Sonata Op.30 n.2 by L. van Beethoven

Interval

Introduction by Catherine Bott

Sonata Op.96 n.10 by L. van Beethoven

Post concert talk with the musicians

 

B) All in one - a selection of three sonatas from different opuses
Introduction by Catherine Bott
Sonata Op.12 n.1 by L. van Beethoven
Introduction by Catherine Bott
Sonata Op.30 n.3 by L. van Beethoven
Interval
Introduction by Catherine Bott
Sonata Op.96 n.10 by L. van Beethoven
Post concert talk with the musicians
 

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