Masterworks Series: Amadi Azikiwe & Mark Peskanov / Leclair Bartók Mozart Handel-Halvorsen
$35
- Amadi Azikiwe, violin & viola
- Mark Peskanov, violin
Béla Bartók — 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98, BB 104 (selections)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — String Duo No. 1 in G major for violin and viola, K. 423
Johan Halvorsen / George Frideric Handel — Passacaglia for Violin and Viola (after Keyboard Suite in G minor, HWV 432)
Violinist/violist Amadi Azikiwe and violinist/Bargemusic President Mark Peskanov perform string duos by Jean-Marie Leclair, Béla Bartók, and W.A. Mozart, plus Johan Halvorsen's famous setting of the Passacaglia from G.F. Handel's Suite in G minor, HWV 432.
About Bargemusic
Moored in Brooklyn just under the Brooklyn Bridge, Bargemusic presents great music year-round. Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge into a "wonderfully intimate wood-paneled room with thrilling views of lower Manhattan and excellent acoustics." Experience why critics call Bargemusic "the perfect chamber-music hall" and why artists say it is "unlike any other place in the world to perform."
https://www.bargemusic.org/About Amadi Azikiwe, violin & viola
About Mark Peskanov, violin
Mark Peskanov (born in Odessa, Ukraine – then part of the USSR) is an American virtuoso violinist, known as a soloist, chamber musician, composer, conductor, and concert presenter.
Peskanov began playing the piano at age three, and the violin at seven. He received early musical training at the Stolyarsky school. In 1973, at the age of fifteen, he emigrated to the United States, where he attended the Aspen Music Festival and the Juilliard School. Upon his recital debut at Carnegie Hall, The New York Times declared, "Mark Peskanov is a tremendous young violinist and his Friday evening concert at Carnegie Hall was a triumph…He has it all—technique, temperament, and taste."
Since 2005, Peskanov is president and artistic/executive director of Bargemusic.