Jennifer Pike plays Brahms & Schumann

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sufficient anecdotal evidence survives to suggest that [Joachim] always eschewed the excessive use of vibrato. It's a ploy that is imaginatively appropriated by Pike, especially in the Brahms... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Apr 2013
Catalogue No: CHAN10762
Label: Chandos
Length: 54 minutes

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Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78

Work length26:12

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Jennifer Pike, Tom Poster
Recorded: 26-28 September 2012
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Vivace ma non troppo

Track length10:23

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II. Adagio

Track length7:33

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III. Allegro molto moderato

Track length8:16

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Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105

Work length16:56

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Jennifer Pike, Tom Poster
Recorded: 26-28 September 2012
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck

Track length7:34

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II. Allegretto

Track length4:13

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III. Lebhaft

Track length5:09

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Schumann, Clara: Romances (3), Op. 22

Work length11:10

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Jennifer Pike, Tom Poster
Recorded: 26-28 September 2012
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Andante molto

Track length3:19

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II. Allegretto

Track length3:04

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III. Leidenschaftlich schnell

Track length4:47

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The Violin Sonata No. 1 was written in 1851, at a time when Robert Schumann was – as expressed to his biographer Wasiliewsky – ‘very annoyed with certain people’, which may have been a reference to the tensions that existed between the composer and the Düsseldorf Musikverein. Schumann expressed his feelings of annoyance in the baroque-style finale through an air of robustness, even roughness, which sits in steep contrast with the fretful and tender opening movement. The public premiere was given by Ferdinand David and Clara Schumann in March 1852, but it was not until Joseph Joachim’s performance the following year that the work received the recognition it deserved.

Robert Schumann referred to the Violin Sonata as a ‘Duo’ with the two instrumentalists performing in equal partnership. In the Sonata by Johannes Brahms, on the other hand, the violin is always the principal voice, the piano never a competitor, but rather a subtle accompanist. Brahms wrote this work in memory of his godson, Felix Schumann, the youngest of Robert and Clara’s children, a gifted musician, who died tragically young of tuberculosis. He was only twenty-five. Clara Schumann was deeply moved by the piece, and particularly delighted by the finale with its quotation of ‘Regenlied’, one of her favourites among all of Brahms’s songs.

In her lifetime, Clara Schumann was best known as a great pianist, but up until her thirties she composed a fair amount of music, including a Piano Concerto, songs, and many piano pieces. Three Romances was the only work she wrote for the combination of piano and violin, and while the violin is allowed to sing out throughout, the subtlety and complexity of the piano part testify to its having been composed by a pianist of the first rank.

In 2002, at the age of twelve, Jennifer Pike notably became the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. She has given performances throughout the UK and abroad and, now aged just twenty-three, is widely regarded as one of the finest violinists in Britain. Tom Poster is internationally recognised as a pianist of outstanding artistry and versatility, equally in demand as a soloist and as a chamber musician across an unusually extensive repertoire. The two performed together in the Concert for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, featured on the recent disc of chamber works by Chausson with the Doric String Quartet (CHAN10754).

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May 2013

sufficient anecdotal evidence survives to suggest that [Joachim] always eschewed the excessive use of vibrato. It's a ploy that is imaginatively appropriated by Pike, especially in the Brahms where she is particularly careful not to be over-indulgent...this is a refreshingly projected performance which boasts an almost ideal fluidity in terms of manipulation of tempo and nuance in the first movement.

June 2013

Pike's timbre throughout is warmly appealing, and she shares Poster's sensitive response to each work...This is well worth exploring.

May 2013

Pike is passionate player, as is her pianist Tom Poster, and they are clearly committed to this music. Pike plays without excessive vibrato - following what we know of Joachim's example - and she's well accompanied by Poster.

23rd March 2013

Her phrasing beautifully shadowed by pianist Tom Poster, Pike delivers a performance of strident purity – perhaps a little too strident for the intimate dialogue of Schumann's A minor Sonata. In Clara Schumann's Three Romances, Pike finally relaxes into the melodic curves without losing bite. It's worth the wait.

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