Release Date: 06 January 2015
Label: Chandos - Classics / Chandos
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 095115186626
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Poeme
Description
This recording is a re-issue of the romantic chamber music recording that Lydia Mordkovitch made in 1989 with the pianist Marina Gusak-Grin. It featured pieces for violin by such famous composers as Wagner, Rachmaninoff, and Chausson, neither of whom played the violin or favoured it as a solo instrument. If there were any doubts about the lyrical potential of the violin, however, this would be an album to confirm its true status as the poet among instruments. The prime example is Chausson's Poème - a title applied to the whole collection, as the other pieces make the same point. Two pieces complement this recording: the one-movement sonata of 1897 (the Sonate posthume) by Ravel, which was both his first chamber work and his first attempt at sonata form, and Sospiri, Op. 70, Elgar's last short piece for violin and piano. These pieces were recorded in 1989 and 1996, respectively.
Tracklisting
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Halle Choir; John Storgards
Jonathan Aasgaard; Sinfonia of London; John Wilson
Sara Dowling; Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
Dame Sarah Connolly; Joseph Middleton
James Ehnes; BBC Philharmonic; Juanjo Mena
Various
Xiayin Wang/Rsno/Oundjian
Williams Fairey Band:Gourlay:H
