Cellists Charles Seo and Louis-Marie Fardet of the Houston Symphony play a little-known Shostakovich duet for the unknown Covid heroes.
There is usually a piano to set this Prelude going, but it is even lovelier without
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Very moving and extraordinarily beautiful.
Very sensitive playing, and a good reminder that the members of fine orchestras such as Houston are great artists, right down the line, not just filling out a section.
This is a relatively well-known duet in amateur / student circles (this doesn’t take away from the beauty and simplicity of its melody!).
But still, cute!
Beautiful work by Shostakovich, but hardly little known: from the Gadfly. John Williams, guitar, did it beautifully too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77VzZC4ZEw
Shostakovich also orchestrated this for the film score to The Gadfly, Op. 97:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPC60cIZpII
Wonderful in every way.