Gaia Duo - Stone, Salt and Sky

Formed in 2019, award-winning violin and celloduo GAIA have rapidly won plaudits for theirpioneering programming and bold and daringperformances.Their debut album releasefeatures three works specially written for theduo, and also bears testimony to theirchampioning of works by underrepresented andoverlooked voices from classical music�s past.Elements of folk and jazz string-playing stylesrub shoulders with traditional chamber-musicimperatives in a programme that is full ofwomen�s voices: those of the performers; ofcomposers Sally Beamish, Rebecca Clarke andElizabeth Maconchy; and of the singers of twoScottish folksongs, taped recordings of whichframe Duncan Strachan�s hauntingly evocativeThirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.