Ireland: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2

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...there's no gentility or emotional holding-back about these performances [of the Violin Sonatas] - the works are presented as big-boned, rough-hewn almost, in the Brahmsian tradition but infused... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Jul 2010
Catalogue No: 8572497
Label: Naxos
Length: 78 minutes

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October 2010

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Ireland: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor

Work length30:16

$7.00

$9.00

Lucy Gould, Benjamin Frith

I. Allegro leggiadro

Track length12:44

$3.00

$3.85

II. Romance. In tempo sostenuto, quasi adagio

Track length11:23

$3.00

$3.85

III. Rondo. Allegro sciolto assai

Track length6:09

$1.00

$1.30

Ireland: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor

Work length27:46

$7.00

$9.00

Lucy Gould, Benjamin Frith

I. Allegro

Track length10:06

$3.00

$3.85

II. Poco lento quasi adagio

Track length10:44

$3.00

$3.85

III. In tempo moderato - Con brio

Track length6:56

$1.00

$1.30

Ireland: Cello Sonata

Work length20:34

$4.00

$5.20

Alice Neary, Benjamin Frith

I. Moderato e sostenuto

Track length8:58

$2.00

$2.60

II. Poco largamente - Non troppo lento

Track length6:26

$1.00

$1.30

III. Con moto e marcato

Track length5:10

$1.00

$1.30

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John Ireland’s violin sonatas gained extraordinarily positive reviews when they were premiered.

The Star praised the ‘delicacy, lucidity, and tonal charm’ of the First Violin Sonata, while Musical Times regarded the Second as ‘a brilliant specimen of his powers’.

This disc presents new recordings by the critically-acclaimed and widely-travelled Gould Trio of these two unjustly neglected works, together with one of Ireland’s most profoundly expressive pieces, the Cello Sonata; three compositions which display the composer’s emotional intensity and passionate lyricism

“Naxos really are doing John Ireland proud at the moment.” Gramophone

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October 2010

...there's no gentility or emotional holding-back about these performances [of the Violin Sonatas] - the works are presented as big-boned, rough-hewn almost, in the Brahmsian tradition but infused with urgent contemporary feeling...Alice Neary's account of the later, more compact but equally heartfelt Cello Sonata is similarly powerful.

November 2010

Gould and Frith have the easy, genial, improvisatory nature of the First Violin Sonata nailed. Their tone in the tragedy-edged Second has just the right contrast...Neary plays [the Cello Sonata] with sure-fingered technique and sonorous tone, her interpretation awash with intense love, longing and frustration.

7th August 2010

The Ireland sonatas are sweet, uncomplicated and...unmistakably English. The performances are fine

Awards Issue 2010

With well balanced sound the disc makes a welcome addition to Naxos's growing library of British chamber works from a period too often neglected.

2011 edition

Lucy Gould, one of the leading British violinists of her generation, is most sympathetically accompanied by Benjamin Frith, a pianist who should be far more widely acclaimed.

19th August 2010

In the first, D minor violin sonata...it's the slow movement – with a main idea whose falling motif is more than distantly reminiscent of the theme of Elgar's Enigma Variations – that packs an emotional punch. All three performances certainly extract as much musical juice out of the pieces as they can.

4th August 2010

Anyone who instinctively shies away from John Ireland’s languid late romanticism might be persuaded of a more muscular side to his musical personality by these two violin sonatas, excellently played here.

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