Sarianna Duo: Two X Six

These larger works are joined together by Sibelius’s touching Duo in C (1891), Kaija Saariaho’s Aure (2011), Sonata No. 1 for Two Violins (1800) by Guadeloupean Creole composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and the world premiere of John McDonald’s Eight Strings, Two Minds, Single Track (2022), written for the duo. The repertoire showcases music from the early classical to the very current and highlights the sparkling virtuosity and independence of both instruments, while showing how they can blend, sometimes imperceptibly, into one instrument.