{"id":2383,"date":"2025-09-09T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:42:00","slug":"the-art-of-the-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=2383","title":{"rendered":"The Art of the Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?attachment_id=2384\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2384\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2384\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/41cQlpuFwjL._UX500_FMwebp_QL85_-300x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/41cQlpuFwjL._UX500_FMwebp_QL85_-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/41cQlpuFwjL._UX500_FMwebp_QL85_-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/41cQlpuFwjL._UX500_FMwebp_QL85_.webp 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Art of the Duo: I Musici Gemelli\/Hunnia Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the sound quality of this disc by the violin duo that is I Musici Gemelli seems more immediate and full of impact than most classical discs, that is perhaps because the album was recorded in DSD 256, which is currently considered to be the world&#8217;s highest audio quality for classical music.\u00a0 In charge of the recording is a team of Grammy-winning engineers, and the results are impressive indeed \u2013 although recording quality alone would count for little if the material being treated to this deluxe treatment were not of the highest standard \u2013 and it is encouraging to report that this really is splendid stuff, with musicianship of the highest order. The disc sets out to illuminate the evolution of chamber music for two violins in the 18th century, with Italian composers (including Geminiani and Vioti) at the forefront. There is of course a danger with a disc in which the programme is recorded in a necessarily limited sound palette \u2013 that is to say, a violin duo,\u00a0 may posess a certain lack of colour, but that is most definitely not the case here as the two players find every nuance and felicity in the music. Something of a triumph.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Art of the Duo: I Musici Gemelli\/Hunnia Records If the sound quality of this disc by the violin duo that is I Musici Gemelli seems more immediate and full of impact than most classical discs, that is perhaps because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=2383\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}