Release Date: 01 January 2015
Label: Chandos - 241 / Chandos
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 095115185025
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Schubert
Description
The electrifying partnership of Tasmin Little and Piers Lane returns in this unique double-album featuring the complete works by Schubert for violin and piano, combined with the 'Arpeggione' Sonata and Adagio in E flat for piano trio, an unusual collection of highly emotional masterpieces. Little and Lane have enjoyed a long-standing collaboration both on stage and in recordings. They are joined by the cellist Tim Hugh, 'a musician with a compelling insight into the creative urge behind the notes' (The Times). Schubert himself was a highly competent pianist and violinist, and his first pieces for violin and piano, composed when he was nineteen, have always been regarded as proper sonatas, although published as 'sonatinas' by Diabelli, perhaps because of their relative brevity. There is little new to say about the monumental 'Arpeggione'; but Schubert's works for violin and piano are a treasured preparation for the immediacy found in both exuberant and anguished moments of this Sonata. The Rondeau brillant, Fantasie, and Adagio are later pieces, making use of a valuable resource which was not a major ingredient in the early works: virtuosity. Gramophone has already praised the 'complete understanding and spontaneity' of the artists, who 'bring moments of true musical virtuosity' to their first album (CHAN 10749).
Tracklisting
Jonathan Aasgaard; Sinfonia of London; John Wilson
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Halle Choir; John Storgards
Janacek:Martinu:Haas
Palm Court Theatre Order
Sydney So:Pikler
Sara Dowling; Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
Dame Sarah Connolly; Joseph Middleton
James Ehnes; BBC Philharmonic; Juanjo Mena
Diego Caicedo
Diego Caicedo
Anna Netrebko; Yusiv Eyvazov; Sonya Yoncheva; Vittorio Grigolo; Roman Burdenko; Ferruccio Furlanett
Caitriona O'Leary; Boris Bergmann
Zuzana Ferjencikova
Zuzana Ferjencikova
Yajie Zhang; Narine Yeghiyan; Chor und Orchester der Berliner Operngruppe; Felix Krieger
Vincent Larderet
