Performance

Duo for Violin and Cello

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Zoltán Kodály’s *Duo for Violin and Cello* (1914) is a taut conversation between two instruments, written at a moment when Hungarian composers were folding folk research into modern concert forms. It draws on vernacular rhythms and modes without turning them into quotation, letting the violin and cello share melody, percussion, and harmony between them. The result is chamber music pared down to essentials, with nowhere to hide. At NYPL for the Performing Arts, the New York Classical Players place it alongside Martinů and Mendelssohn, a program tracing how small ensembles carry national identity and formal experiment.