Leila Schayegh / Jan Schultsz -Violinsonaten -Glossa CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Sonata in G major, op. 78 (1879)

01. "I. Vivace ma non troppo"

02. "II. Adagio"

03. "III. Allegro molto moderato"
Sonata in A major, op. 100 (1886)

04. "I. Allegro amabile"

05. "II. Andante tranquillo"

06. "III. Allegretto grazioso (quasi Andante)"
Sonata in D minor, op. 108 (1888)

07. "I. Allegro"

08. "II. Adagio"

09. "III. Un poco presto e con sentimento"

10. "IV. Presto agitato"
Sonata "FAE" in C minor (1853)

11. "Allegro"

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The Violin Sonatas of Johannes Brahms were the product of much self-critical reflection, and the three surviving works are from a composer mature in years. Composed around the same time as the Violin Concerto (No 1), the C minor Piano Trio and the Second Cello Sonata (Nos 2 and 3), they also echo some of his songs, such as those written to poems by Klaus Groth. Into this Romantic atmosphere come new performances of the three works on Glossa, played by violinist Leila Schayegh (particularly fêted for her recordings of Bach, Caldara and Benda), teaming up here with pianist Jan Schultsz. Schayegh plays a copy of a period violin, whilst Schultsz uses an original 1879 Streicherinstrument. The two players aim to recapture the performing tradition as the composer would have known it, and within which he would have intended his pieces to have been played. Schayegh and Schultsz worked with Clive Brown and Neal Peres Da Costa in their efforts to aim for "the spirit rather than the dead letter of the score" and they pay admirable notice of important interpretative questions for music of this time - and they provide an intuitive musical and emotional response to the lyricism of the first two sonatas and the darker-hued tones of the third, investing these late-nineteenth-century works.

Recorded in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Théâpopulaire romand, Salle de musique), Switzerland, on 18?20 October 2017 Comes in a 2-panel Digipack with 27-page booklet Liner notes in English, French and German ? &© 2018 Note 1 Music GmbH Made in Austria total playing time 69:42 Instrument information: ? Leyla Schayegh: Daniel Frisch, 2017, after Romantic model; anonymous French bow of mid-19th century ? Jan Schultsz: J.B. Streicher & Sohn, Vienna 1879

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GCD924201

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