Mozart: String Duos Dorian Komanoff Bandy & Catherine Cosbey

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Duo in G Major for Violin and Viola, K. 423:
• 1 Mozart: Duo in G Major for Violin and Viola, K. 423: I. Allegro 06:59
• 2 Mozart: Duo in G Major for Violin and Viola, K. 423: II. Adagio 03:46
• 3 Mozart: Duo in G Major for Violin and Viola, K. 423: III. Rondeau. Allegro 05:42
• Duo in B-Flat Major for Violin and Viola, K. 424:
• 4 Mozart: Duo in B-Flat Major for Violin and Viola, K. 424: I. Adagio – Allegro 07:26
• 5 Mozart: Duo in B-Flat Major for Violin and Viola, K. 424: II. Andante cantabile 03:25
• 6 Mozart: Duo in B-Flat Major for Violin and Viola, K. 424: III. Andante grazioso 09:20
• La clemenza di Tito, K. 621 (Arr. for Two Violins by Johann Christian Stumpf):
• 7 Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K. 621 (Arr. for Two Violins by Johann Christian Stumpf): I. Come ti piace imponi 02:29
• 8 Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K. 621 (Arr. for Two Violins by Johann Christian Stumpf): II. Deh se piacer mi vuoi 04:18
• 9 Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K. 621 (Arr. for Two Violins by Johann Christian Stumpf): III. Deh prendi un dolce amplesso 01:54
• 10 Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K. 621 (Arr. for Two Violins by Johann Christian Stumpf): VII. Parto, ma tu ben mio 04:29
• 11 Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K. 621 (Arr. for Two Violins by Johann Christian Stumpf): VIII. Ah grazie si rendano 03:26
• Violin Sonata in A Major, K. 305 (Arr. for Two Violins):
• 12 Mozart: Violin Sonata in A Major, K. 305 (Arr. for Two Violins): I. Allegro di molto 05:05
• 13 Mozart: Violin Sonata in A Major, K. 305 (Arr. for Two Violins): II. Tema con variazioni. Andante grazioso 07:34
• Total Runtime 01:05:53

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Catherine Cosbey and Dorian Komanoff Bandy present Mozart: String Duos, an album capturing the vitality, creativity, and intimacy of eighteenth-century music-making. This recording features vivid, period-instrument performances of some of Mozart's most inventive chamber compositions, as well as premieres of newly discovered historical arrangements of the Violin Sonata K. 305 and the opera La clemenza di Tito. The album begins with Mozart's two spectacular duos for violin and viola: pieces that are by turns lyrical, playful, and virtuosic. Following historical convention, Cosbey and Bandy insert extensive embellishments and cadenzas, capturing a degree of improvisatory freedom rarely heard in recordings of Mozart's string music. The album continues with the duo versions of Tito and K. 305. Arrangements such as these would have introduced many eighteenth-century consumers to Mozart's music; today, they conjure scenes of domestic music-making among family and friends.

Dorian Komanoff Bandy, violin
Catherine Cosbey, viola

Dorian Komanoff Bandy
An energetic, dynamic multi-instrumentalist, Dorian Komanoff Bandy is a conductor, baroque violinist, and historical keyboardist. His repertoire spans four centuries, from the Renaissance through the solo and chamber works of Beethoven and Schubert, and his performances—praised for their “impressive emotional scope” and a “virtuosity [that is] relentless, precise, and, above all, dazzling” (The Whole Note)—have taken him to venues across Europe and North America, including London’s Wigmore and Cadogan Halls, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and New York’s Symphony Space.

In addition to his activities as a performer, Dorian is active as a musicologist. He is the author of the book Mozart the Performer: Variations on the Showman’s Art as well as numerous academic articles on Mozart, Beethoven, and other topics. He is associate professor of musicology and historical performance at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, where he has taught since 2019.

Catherine Cosbey
violin, of the Cavani String Quartet, leads an adventurous career as both a vibrant performer and presenter of chamber music. Catherine’s international performing career has taken her throughout the US and abroad. Ms Cosbey has made appearances at the Honens Festival in Calgary, Alberta, Festpiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany, Esterhazy String Quartet Festival in Hungary, Festival de Febrero in Mexico, Xenia Concerts in Toronto, the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, the Detroit Chamber Music Society, the Kennedy Center, and Carnegie Hall, amongst others. She has served as guest violinist with with the Afiara Quartet, Attacca Quartet, the Cecilia Quartet, and the Tokai Quartet, and has enjoyed collaborations with A Far Cry, Katherine Dowling, Leopoldo Erice, Sheila Jaffe, Julian Rachlin, Sarah McElravy, and Boris Andrianov.

A founding member of the award winning Linden String Quartet, hailed as “polished, radiant and incisive” by The Strad Magazine, she has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe, and served as Fellowship Quartet at Yale University, the Apprentice Quartet Cleveland Institute of Music, performed residencies for University of Iowa, and the University of Idaho. The Linden Quartet received Gold medal and Grand prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, Coleman Barstow Prize at the 2009 Coleman National Chamber Ensemble Competition, the 2010 Hugo Kauder Competition, and the ProQuartet Prize at the 9th Borciani String Quartet Competition.

A dedicated teacher, Ms Cosbey has served as faculty at Music at Port Milford, Regina Summer Strings, the Maine Chamber Music Seminar, and the Thunder Bay Conservatory Chamber Music Workshop.

Ms. Cosbey is proudly the Artistic Director of the Regina Chamber Music Festival, a week-long chamber music festival that works in collaboration with Regina Summer Strings to bring inspiring concerts and instruction to her hometown community in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and co-Artistic Director of Bach From The Heart, a concert experience that explores the emotional journeys of Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas for Violin through music and poetry. As a proud member of a musical family, a musical she often performs as part of the Cosbey Piano Quintet.

Ms. Cosbey holds degrees from the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory or Music of Toronto, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Yale University School of Music. She studied with Eduard Minevich, Erika Raum, Paul Kantor, and was mentored by the Tokyo Quartet and the Cavani Quartet.

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