Celebrating their 26th anniversary during this season, the FISCHER DUO continues to explore the rich repertoire for cello and piano. The Washington Post has described the FISCHER DUO 's all-French programming as "intense and totally committed, with a solid understanding of the subtleties of the French style"; the New York Times has commented on "a real sense of dialogue in this duo's ensemble" as well as "a salon-like intimacy and warmth"; and the Boston Globe has heralded Norman Fischer's "boldly imaginative and technically assured skills" and Jeanne Kierman as "equally impressive." In addition to featuring works by the masters, the FISCHER DUO has become known for their thematic approach to programing, have performed neglected pieces by composers such as Franz Liszt, Victor Herbert, Nadia Boulanger and Feruccio Busoni, and have commissioned new works by American composers George Rochberg, Augusta Read Thomas, Robert Sirota, David Stock, Samuel Jones, and Richard Lavenda among others. Their CD of French masters on the Northeastern label (NR 238-CD) has received rave reviews. The members of Fischer Duo were selected as an Artistic Ambassadors for the United States Information Agency and toured South America in the Fall of 1996; in October of 1997, the Fischer Duo has been asked to tour in South Africa.
Georges Auric |
Imaginées II (1969)*** |
J.S. Bach |
Viola da Gamba Sonatas; various transcriptions |
Samuel Barber |
Sonata, Op. 6 (1932) |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Complete Sonatas and Variations |
Arthur Berger |
Duo (1951) |
Ernest Bloch |
"From a Jewish Life" (Prayer, Supplication, Song) |
Luigi Boccherini |
Sonatas |
William Bolcom |
Capriccio (1985); Sonata (1988) |
Nadia Boulanger |
Trois Pièces (1915)*** |
Johannes Brahms |
Complete Sonatas |
Benjamin Britten |
Sonata in C (1963) |
Max Bruch |
Kol Nidrei; Adagio on Celtic Melodies |
Ferruccio Busoni |
Kultaselle; Serenade; Kleine Suite; Chromatic Fantasy and Fuge |
Elliott Carter |
Sonata (1948) |
Pablo Casals |
Song of the Birds |
Gaspar Cassadò |
Requiebros; Toccata (after Frescabaldi) |
George Chadwick |
Romanza |
Carlos Chavez |
Madrigal |
Fréderic Chopin |
Sonata in G Minor;Polonaise, Op. 3;Grand Duo |
Paul Cooper |
Elegies (1991)*** |
John Corigliano |
Phantasmagoria (1993) |
Henry Cowell |
Sonata; Hymn and Fuging Tune #9 |
François Couperin |
Pièces en Concert (edition by Norman Fischer) |
Claude Debussy |
Sonata (1915)*** |
Marcel Dupré |
Sonata in A Major, Op. 60 (cello and organ) |
Antonín Dvorak |
Rondo; Waldesruhe |
Manuel de Falla |
Suite Popular Espanole; Ritual Fire Dance |
Louise Farrenc |
Sonata in B-Flat, Op. 46 |
Gabriel Fauré |
Elegy; Sonata #2 in G Minor |
Arthur Foote |
Three Pieces (1882) |
César Franck |
Sonata in A Major |
Gabriella Frank |
Manhattan Serenades (1995) |
François Francoeur |
Sonata in A Major |
George Gershwin |
Promenade (transcription by Norman Fischer)** |
Alberto Ginastera |
Pampeana #2 (1951); Sonata (1979) |
Victor Herbert |
Suite Op. 3 (1883) |
Paul Hindemith |
Trauermusik |
Jacques Ibert |
Histoires |
Samuel Jones |
Sonata (1996)* |
Jonathan Kramer |
A Game (1992-3)** |
Richard Lavenda |
Memory's Motion (1990)* |
Franz Liszt |
Elegies IⅈRomance oubliée; La lugubre gondola; Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth |
Witold Lutoslawski |
Grave |
Leos Janácek |
Pohadka; Presto |
Felix Mendelssohn |
Sonata in D Major; Song without Words |
Olivier Messiaen |
"Louange á l'Éternité de Jésus"*** |
Ellsworth Milburn |
Character Pieces (1980) |
Paul Moravec |
Walk Away Slowly (1989) |
Wolfgang Mozart |
Adagio |
John Knowles Paine |
Romance and Scherzo |
Vincent Persichetti |
Vocalise (1945) |
Astor Piazzolla |
Le Grand Tango (1982) |
David Popper |
Hungarian Rhapsody; various pieces |
Francis Poulenc |
Sonata (1948)*** |
Sergei Prokofiev |
Sonata (1948) |
Maurice Ravel |
Don Quichotte Songs (Trans. Norman Fischer)*** |
Sergei Rachmaninoff |
Sonata in G Minor; Vocalize |
George Rochberg |
Ricordanza (1972)***; Sonata-Aria (1992)* |
Camile Saint-Saëns |
Allegro Appasionato; Swan; Sonata #2 |
Hermann Schroeder |
Sonata for Cello and Organ |
Franz Schubert |
Sonata in A Minor "Arpeggione" |
Robert Schumann |
Adagio&Allegro; Pieces in Folk Style; Fantasy Pieces |
Adrien-François Servais |
Grand Fantasy on "Daughter of the Regiment" |
Robert Sirota |
Sonata (1988)* ; Fantasy (1975); Sonata (1968) Easter Canticles (1991)(cello and organ) |
David Stock |
Partners (1988)* |
Richard Strauss |
Sonata in F Major; Song transcriptions |
Igor Stravinsky |
Suite Italienne |
Augusta Read Thomas |
Chant (1991)* |
Antonio Vivaldi |
Complete Sonatas |
George Walker |
Sonata (1957) |
Anton Webern |
Complete Pieces |
Richard Wernick |
Sonata "Portraits of Antiquity" (1982) |
Christian Wolff |
Stardust Pieces (1983)* |
Marilyn Ziffrin |
Sono (1981) |
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* = a Fischer Duo commission |
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** = premiered by the Fischer Duo |
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*** = recorded by the Fischer Duo |
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