Duo Gazzana - Prokofiev, Pärt, Schnittke (album trailer)

The Duo Gazzana’s new album with works by Prokofiev, Pärt and Schnittke is out now: https://ecm.lnk.to/ProkofievSchnittkePart The duo’s reading of Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 1, op. 80 opens the proceedings with urgency, true to the composer’s intention (Prokofiev famously declared that a particular passage “should sound in such a way that people should jump in their seat…”), but also with lyrical serenity, casting the work’s third movement in a spellbinding light. His Five Melodies op. 35a are interpreted with equal conviction, while Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel, performed with poise and humility, serves as a thoughtful respite. Concluding the programme is Schnittke’s Gratulationsrondo – a celebratory piece that finds the composer circumventing his usual polystylistic ways and instead excelling in a more traditional approach to the classical idiom. Raffaella Gazzana - Piano Natascia Gazzana - Violin Executive production: Andrey Tarkovsky International Institute Filmed at the Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, March 2026 Direction and editing: Andrey A. Tarkovsky Cinematography: Stefano Muti Special thanks to: Abbot Stefano Visintin OSB Abbot Emeritus Norberto Villa OSB Dom Paolo Maria Censori OSB Carmelo A. Grasso, director of Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore - ramo ETS Chiara A. Schiaccianoce Fiorello Pellizzari Monastical Community of San Giorgio Maggiore Roberto Zanta Zanta Pianoforti Website: https://www.ecmrecords.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ecmrecords Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ecm_records