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Title: French Violin Sonatas
Artist: Thomas Albertus Irnberger
Label: Gramola
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 9003643993365
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-03-07
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD

On this double SACD, "Paths into Impressionism" are taken: starting with the two important Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Gabriel Faure, the first of which was already described as a masterpiece by Camille Saint-Saens, and four other short pieces by Faure, the great Salzburg violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger and the German pianist Michael Korstick, who is already very familiar with the French idiom through many of his own recordings, present further works from the French and Belgian repertoire in their usual masterly and spirited interpretations: the Sonata by the early deceased Guillaume Lekeu, which was commissioned and premiered by Eugene Ysaÿe, and Maurice Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Piano (with a Blues as the middle movement), which is characterized by Ravel's view that violin and piano were fundamentally incompatible. The resulting manifold parallel developments and bitonal frictions create specific stimuli, though without showing even the slightest hint of the music falling apart. Ravel's "Kaddish" and the "Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faure", dedicated to his teacher, can also be heard, as well as the Sonata by Francis Poulenc, written in collaboration with Ginette Neveu and dedicated posthumously to Federico Garcia Lorca, and the fascinating work "Theme et variations" by Olivier Messiaen, which he dedicated to his first wife, a violinist, and which still contains many impressionistic elements.

Tracks:
1.1 Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 1 A-Dur Op. 13 / Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A major, Op. 13~I. Allegro molto
1.2 Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 1 A-Dur Op. 13 / Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A major, Op. 13~II. Andante
1.3 Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 1 A-Dur Op. 13 / Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A major, Op. 13~III. Allegro vivo
1.4 Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 1 A-Dur Op. 13 / Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A major, Op. 13~IV. Allegro quasi presto
1.5 Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 2 e-Moll Op. 108 / Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108~I. Allegro non troppo
1.6 Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 2 e-Moll Op. 108 / Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108~II. Andante
1.7 Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 2 e-Moll Op. 108 / Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108~III. Final. Allegro non troppo
1.8 Romance pour violon et piano Op. 28
1.9 Andante pour violon et piano Op. 75
1.10 Sicilienne pour violoncelle/violon et piano Op. 78
1.11 Berceuse pour violon et piano Op. 16
1.12 Thème et variations pour violon et piano
2.1 Sonate für Klavier und Violine / Sonata for Piano and Violin~I. Très modéré - vif et passioné
2.2 Sonate für Klavier und Violine / Sonata for Piano and Violin~II. Très lent
2.3 Sonate für Klavier und Violine / Sonata for Piano and Violin~III. Très animé
2.4 Sonate für Violine und Klavier / Sonata for Violin and Piano~I. Allegretto
2.5 Sonate für Violine und Klavier / Sonata for Violin and Piano~II. Blues. Moderato
2.6 Sonate für Violine und Klavier / Sonata for Violin and Piano~III. Perpetuum mobile. Allegro
2.7 Sonate für Violine und Klavier / Sonata for Violin and Piano~I. Allegro con fuoco
2.8 Sonate für Violine und Klavier / Sonata for Violin and Piano~II. Intermezzo. Très lent et calme
2.9 Sonate für Violine und Klavier / Sonata for Violin and Piano~III. Presto tragico
2.10 Deux mélodies hébraïques~I. Kaddisch (pour violon et piano). Lent
2.11 Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré (pour violon et piano). Simplice