James Horner: Pas de deux

For his first concert work in three decades, film composer James Horner (Titanic, Braveheart, Avatar) wrote a crowd-pleasing double concerto for Norwegian violin- and cello-playing siblings Mari and Håkon Samuelsen. Lush, romantic, virtuosic and coupled with haunting works by Arvo Pärt, Giovanni Sollima (with cellist Alisa Weilerstein) and Ludovico Einaudi, Pas de deux makes quite an impact. This version boasts a bonus in Johan Halvorsen’s thrilling transcription for violin and cello of Handel’s Passacaglia.