Carmelo Amdriani / Pierluigi Camicia -Vieuxtemp:Music For Violin & Piano -Brilliant Classics CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Sonate für Violine und Klavier D-Dur op. 12 "Grande Sonate"

01. "1. Allegro assai"

02. "2. Scherzo: Allegro vivace - Trio"

03. "3. Largo non troppo"

04. "4. Rondo: Allegro gioioso"
Stücke für Violine und Klavier op. 7 Nr. 1-3 (Romances sans paroles)

05. "Nr. 1 Chant d'amour"

06. "Nr. 2 D?sespoir"

07. "Nr. 3 Souvenir"
Stücke für Violine und Klavier op. 22 Nr. 1-6 (Morceaux de salon) (Auszug)

08. "Nr. 3 R?verie"
Albumbl?tter (Feuillets d'album) op. 40 Nr. 1-3 (Auszug)

09. "Nr. 1 Romanze"

10. "Nr. 2 Regrets"
Stücke für Violine und Klavier op. 22 Nr. 1-6 (Morceaux de salon) (Auszug)

11. "Nr. 5 Tarantelle"

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Henry FranÃ§ois Joseph Vieuxtemps (Verviers, Belgium, 17.2.1820 - Mustapha, Algeria, 6.6.1881). This new recording contains the substantial (over 40 minutes!) Violin Sonata Op. 12, as well as Morceaux de Salon and Romances Sans Paroles. Italian violinists Carmelo Andriani already successfully recorded for Brilliant Classics works by Michele Esposito. Pianist Pierluigi Camicia is a highly respected soloist and chamber music player, who collaborated with Ruggiero Ricci, FÃ©lix Ayo and the Quartetto di Cremona. - .. VIOLIN & PIANO

The Belgian violinist and composer Henry Vieuxtemps (1820-1881) was one of the great 19th-century virtuosos in the tradition of Paganini, but his music does not belong in the showpiece category, being distinguished more by it's attractive lyricism. Vieuxtemps did more than anyone to revive the fortunes of Beethoven's Violin Concerto after decades of neglect, and his own concertos for the instrument share the patient, majestic character of that work rather than Paganini's fiendish wizardry. It seems typical of Vieuxtemps that the viola was his preferred position in a string quartet, and he wrote a fine sonata for the instrument which is now much better known and more frequently recorded than the earlier and undeservedly neglected Violin Sonata which Carmelo Andriani presents here to open his attractive recital. The Sonata's scherzo is a fine example of the unpretentious charm and grace which Vieuxtemps cultivated in his music, while the following Largo opens out from it's hymn-like theme towards a climax of quasi-religious intensity and radiance. There is a notable absence of conventionally violinistic fireworks to the finale; this new recording restores to the catalogue a substantial contribution to the violin-sonata literature. Carmelo Andriani has dedicated the rest of the album to shorter pieces in a salon style. The trio of Romances sans paroles opens with a lovely Chant d'amour, and closes with a Souvenir of Mendelssohnian grace and lightness. The third of 6 Morceaux de salon Op.22 (1846) is an Adagio entitled Rêverie which builds to a passionate climax, and the album closes out in flamboyant style with the fifth piece in the set, a whirling Tarantella. In between, Carmelo Adriani treats us to the first two of the three Feuilles d'Album Op.40: a soulful Romance followed by the yearning melody of Regrets.

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1096170BRC

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