The Duo Affetuoso is composed of two musicians, Philippe Pachet, clarinetist and Marie-Claude Werchowska, pianist, united by the passion for music and by life recently.
Working as a couple is not always necessarily “idyllic” but affection and tenderness always return like a blue sky after the rain, and allow the performance of interpretation.
Music is universal, bringing harmony and peace: this is the message that Marie-Claude and Philippe wanted to convey in this recording. It presents musicians leaving their country not without a pinch in the heart, fleeing from barbarism and emigrating in host countries: Tedesco in the United States, Hindemith in Switzerland, the Horovitz family in England and André Bloch in France.
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Piano and Clarinet Sonatas
This concert will be offered to the Muret music school and to the students in thanks for allowing us to record our clarinet and piano CD for two days, on October 30 and 31, 2017 for the LIGIA DIGITAL label.
The theme of the concert is the duty of memory that we want to transmit to the young generation.
We will present verbally and of course musically some composers who had to flee their homeland because of their origin in the Second World War.
These composers that we recorded on our CD: HOROWITZ, HINDEMITH, TEDESCO and BLOCH all suffered the exile.
Madame Joelle Krupa, who had been kind enough to make a watercolor on the cover of our CD, will illustrate our music on the spot with her talent.
