Choro composto para os meus filhos André, Laura e Felipe (trigêmeos). O tema é apresentado em três notas, três vezes: "Ré, ré, sol... Si, si, ré... Sol, sol, si..." :)

01 - Um, Dois, Três

Schifanoia CD (2014, independent release) - international reviews:

Musicweb (Dominy Clemens): 'highly musical phrasing'; 'the music here sounds as good as you can imagine it sounding'; 'remarkably skilled performers'.

Musicalifeiten (Jan de Kruijff): 'zorgen beide jonge musici niet alleen voor een passend stijlbesef (ornamenten incluis), maar ook voor een instrumentaal-technische realisatie die alle bewondering afdwingt.'

Early Music America Magazine (Tom Moore): 'It's not an easy task at this point to plan a novel and diverse program of duos for recorders, but Schifanoia has managed it' [...] 'The playing throughout is technically masterful, bright, and expressive, and the recorded sound is highly flattering' [...] 'This is a simply excellent debut.'

Blokfluitist (Koen Deltiens): 'twee jonge getalenteerde musici. Ze hebben gekozen voor een niet vooraf uitgestippelde weg met de meest gespeelde stukken [...] maar eerder voor en verrassende keuze van enkele hoofdrolspeelers uit die periode.' [...] 'Quantz komt aan bod met een heel sprankelend gespeeld stuk' [...] 'deskundig samengesteld en geserveerd met tal van muzikale ingrediënten'.

18. B. Guillemant - Sonata Op. 2 No. 1 - I - Andantino

Schifanoia was named after the homonymous Renaissance palace in Ferrara. “Schifar la noia” (to “escape from boredom”) resonates harmoniously with the music the recorder duet plays: baroque works written for music lovers to pass time. These seldom heard pieces are as interesting to audience ears as challenging to the musicians, as the technical level is comparable to other highly regarded works in their instrument’s concert repertoire.
Inês d'Avena and Isabel Favilla met in 1998 in their native Brazil and have been playing together ever since, in various ensemble formations. Now master graduates of the conservatories of The Hague and Brussels respectively, the consolidation of the duo in order to dedicate time to studying and performing these works was a natural process. 

The duo had an extensive tour in Brazil in its debut year with a program of baroque music and chorinho. That same year Schifanoia was one of the 8 ensembles selected for the International Young Artists Presentation, which was part of the 2009 Laus Polyphoniae festival in Antwerp. Schifanoia released it's first and homonymous CD in the spring of 2014, made possible by a very successful international crowdfunding campaign. The strive of the duo was to show familiar, unexpected, cliché, bizarre and entertaining facets of Baroque duets. The duet as a didactic vehicle and also as an entertaining pastime imprints a sense of pleasure in music making, which matched with the high virtuosism and brilliant inventiveness so patent in some of these works, delivers a miniature of the Baroque period in its best light.

18. B. Guillemant - Sonata Op. 2 No. 1 - I - Andantino

Schifanoia - recorder duo

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