The Art of the Duo is a Pure DSD 256 Stereo album with violinists Francesco Pio Bertozzi andGiuseppe Pio Bertozzi. The album explores the evolution of chamber music for violin in the 18th century. A period of extraordinary innovation and instrumental virtuosity, with a particular focus on Italian composers such as: Giovanni Battista Viotti, Bartolomeo Campagnoli and Francesco Geminiani, whose duet never before recorded is featured on this album.

The composers in this collection are united by their instrumental virtuosity and refined violin writing. Duos for two violins are central to this repertoire, highlighting the musical dialogue and dynamic interaction between the two instruments. Viotti, Campagnoli and Geminiani, inspired by the Corellian and Vivaldian tradition, explore elegant melodies and virtuoso techniques.

The album concludes with a work by Telemann, whose writing for two violins clearly anticipates the direction that the music of the following century will take. His duets show how the dynamics between instruments and composition for two voices would evolve, influencing the generation of composers that would follow, with a more complex and interactive approach to instrumental dialogue.

Francesco Pio Bertozzi, Violin
Giuseppe Pio Bertozzi, Violin