User:Artdeco Wien

Duo Artdeco Wien is the name of a Vienna-based classical instrumental duo, violin (Setareh Najfar-Nahvi) and piano (Theresia Schumacher). In addition to the classical repertoire from the baroque, classical, romantic and modern eras, the two instrumentalists prefer to interpret duo works from the turn of the century, which can be attributed to Art Nouveau. In December 2017 they performed the pantomime "Der Schneemann" by Erich Wolfgang Korngold at the Musikverein Vienna, commissioned by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien. For this performance, Erich Wolfgang Korngold's original piano version from 1908 was arranged by Reza Najfar as a new chamber music trio version for piano, violin and flute, newly staged by Walter Samuel Bartussek and performed for the first time on stage with the Ensemble Triophonus Viennensis. In the concert programs of Duo Artdeco Wien, special attention is paid to female composers, who are still underrepresented in concert life, as well as to rarely performed works by well-known or lesser-known composers. The Vienna CD label Austrian Gramophone has released recordings of duo compositions by Lili Boulanger, Cécile Chaminade, Louise Adolpha Le Beau, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Reza Najfar, Alfred Schnittke, Egon Wellesz, Francis Poulenc, Joseph Guy Ropartz, Othmar Schoeck and others.