Frid: The Complete Works for Violin and Piano

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Release Date: 21st Jul 2023
Catalogue No: CC72953
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 82 minutes

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Frid, Grigory: Divertimento, Op. 45 No. 1

Work length9:32

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Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Oliver Triendl (piano)

I. "Prelude" Moderato energico - Cantabile - Tempo I - L’istesso tempo

Track length3:18

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II. "Stroll and Storm" Allegretto - Poco sostenuto

Track length3:07

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III. Andante sostenuto

Track length3:07

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Frid, Grigory: Andantino

Work length3:11

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Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Oliver Triendl (piano)

Frid, Grigory: Violin Sonatina, Op. 32

Work length9:40

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Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Oliver Triendl (piano)

I. Allegretto

Track length3:51

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II. Andante

Track length1:52

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III. "Theme with variations". Allegro

Track length3:57

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Frid, Grigory: The Calendar of Nature Op. 17, No. 2

Work length16:45

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Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Oliver Triendl (piano)

I. "Spring is Arriving" Andantino

Track length0:56

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II. "The Little Bird" Allegretto

Track length0:55

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III. "Spouts" Marciale

Track length1:34

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IV. "Autumn" Andante doloroso

Track length2:28

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V. "The Rivulet" Leggiero. Poco meno mosso

Track length1:57

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VI. "Sunset" Moderato

Track length1:27

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VII. "A Sparkling Drop" Moderato cantabile

Track length1:57

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VIII. "Bunny" Moderato sostenuto

Track length1:23

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IX. "The Wasps Feel Cold" Andante cantabile

Track length2:07

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X. "Fox Hunting" Allegro molto. Poco meno moso

Track length2:01

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Frid, Grigory: Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 27

Work length12:29

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Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Oliver Triendl (piano)

I. Allegro

Track length4:08

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II. Andante sostenuto

Track length5:21

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III. Allegro moderato

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Frid, Grigory: Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 51

Work length16:54

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Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Oliver Triendl (piano)

I. Allegro

Track length6:36

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II. Lento

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III. Allegro

Track length6:24

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Frid, Grigory: Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 57

Work length13:45

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Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Oliver Triendl (piano)

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Pianist Oliver Triendl and violinist Isabelle van Keulen present here the complete output for their instruments by an almost unknown Russian composer: Grigory Frid (1915-2012). The pieces encompass a composition period of time going from late 40s to early 70s and feature different styles which may recall Shostakovich to Schnittke.

Oliver Triendl: My first encounter with the instrumental music of Grigory Samuilovich Frid (1915-2012) occurred around fifteen years ago. It was at this time that Hans-Ulrich Duffek, the former director of the Sikorski music publishing company, showed me the scores of some chamber-music and orchestral works by this almost entirely unknown composer. My enthusiasm for Frid's music came to the attention of Stefan Lang - the editor at the culture-oriented German radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur to whom the musical world owes many important discoveries - so that the two of us were able to set up plans also for the recording of certain of the works of this long-neglected composer.

Frid's works for violin and piano allow us to trace the composer's stylistic development over a period of some twenty-five years. Thus, whereas his earlier work is to be situated in the tradition of Shostakovich, his later compositions are stylistically much closer to the work of Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Alfred Schnittke. "Dark", "autumnal", "ruminative", "sarcastic" - it is such notions as these that first occur to me as I listen to Frid's music.

Isabelle van Keulen: In summer 2019, Oliver had managed to get together quite a few scores of Frid's music for violin and piano and we organised a "read-through" session, in which we both were reduced to tears several times by the sheer strength and diversity of this incredible music.... Both the violin sonatas and pieces but also the viola pieces - that will be released in an upcoming disc - bear witness to a deeply sensitive, profoundly sad composer; music with sometimes unbearably long lines and huge tension, only to then lighten up again.

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