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“…in vivacious movements… the sheer verve of the playing is irresistible. The dancelike sections of the Third Sonata's finale make a similar impression and its 'big' tune is wonderfully well graded, with the cumulative, immediate effect of a fine live performance.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2006 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Grieg: Three Concerti for Violin and Chamber Orchestrabased on the sonatas for violin and piano
World Première Recordings Orchestrated by Henning Kraggerud and Bernt Simen Lund Grieg is one of the world’s best known composers, but the three Violin Sonatas are a relatively unfamiliar part of his output, despite being among his own favourite pieces. Grieg never wrote a violin concerto, and the foremost Norwegian violinist of his generation, Henning Kraggerud, assisted by Bernt Simen Lund, a member of the Tromsø Chamber Orchestra, has taken up the challenge of creating three new concertos from the sonatas. In these arrangements the solo violin is set against a string orchestra augmented by wind instruments in order to retain the feel of chamber music. | 
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| |  | Vadim Repin & Nikolai Lugansky: Violin Sonatas
Vadim Repin and his pianist partner Nikolai Lugansky have just recorded a compilation of three magnificent but utterly different Romantic violin sonatas. The overtly emotional Franck sonata is the new album’s centrepiece, and also the work that the two artists have played together most often. By contrast, says Vadim Repin, the “Janáček is the most intimate and emotional music you could imagine. Then the Grieg is another substance again. It’s somehow like 19th-century Mozart – very truthful, natural writing. His emotions are really direct reflections.” And about the recording as a whole, Repin exclaims: ”This is a documentary of two people who perform together and love this music.” “Fiery commitment and technical aplomb,” declared the New York Times reviewing Repin/Lugansky live, while the Los Angeles Times dubbed them “the high-powered Repin-Lugansky team” and, after a recital including the Franck, the Boston Globe reported that “they left their audience cheering after every piece... Each seems more interested in exploring the personalities of the composers than in making a parade of his own”. This is chamber music-making on the highest level. Vadim Repin will, of course, continue to perform these three sonatas live, whenever possible with Nikolai Lugansky: “I feel a great connection to his sense of phrasing. It is something I can always be confident to be part of, to follow or to take the idea further. We trust each other.” The two artists’ exceptional chemistry and mutual understanding are clearly audible in this remarkable new recording. “Repin’s and Lugansky’s subtlety of expression is a major factor in making this so outstanding, so ravishing and so spine-tingling. Both musicians give of their utmost and, when the musicians in question are Repin and Lugansky, that makes for something exceptional.” The Telegraph, 15th October 2010 ***** “The obvious empathy that exists between these two artists...brings enormous dividends to this warmly recorded programme. It's so easy to become complacent in such a well-worn work as the Franck. But Repin and Lugansky overcome any hint of routine...Superb.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2010 ***** “The Franck is discursive and lingering, but Repin and Lugansky plot a lucid pathway through its labyrinth of interlocking, dovetailing themes...in the finale [of the Grieg] Repin's pinhead-subtle expressive slides between notes is delightful...Repin and Lugansky match ardent physicality with rare musical intelligence.” Classic FM Magazine, December 2010 ***** “As presented by Vadim Repin and Nikolai Lugansky, Janáček's Violin Sonata becomes unambiguously a late-romantic work, almost overfilled with emotion, and milked for every bit of its expressive...The playing and the sense of ensemble are both magnificent...[In the first movement of the Franck] their playing has much more refinement and a sense of light and shade” The Guardian, 2nd December 2010 *** “This is one of the finest performances I have ever heard of the Janacek, played with breathtaking conviction and an utterly persuasive grasp of Janacek's idiom...Their new disc is worth getting for this performance of the Janacek alone, but the rest is every bit as impressive” International Record Review, December 2010 “it's impossible not to respond to this vital, wholehearted playing” Gramophone Magazine, March 2011  BBC Music Magazine
Chamber Choice - December 2010 |
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| |  | Grieg - The Three Violin Sonatas
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Gerald Tarack (violin) and David Hancock (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Grieg - Violin Sonatas 1-3
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“This disc gives us consistently enjoyable performances.
The two young Norwegians play with idiomatic style, and give the impression of expressing every aspect of the music. Their eagerness at the start of Op 8's first Allegro sets the tone; the doloroso opening of Op 13, the delicacy and serenity of the E-major section of that sonata's middle movement, and the exciting 'Hall of the Mountain King' atmosphere they generate in the finale of Op 45 – these are just a few of the places where the pair convince us they've found exactly the right sound and manner of expression. Kraggerud's account of the 'big tune' in the last movement of Op 45, respecting all Grieg's marks of expression and phrasing, has real nobility. Highly recommendable.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “Norwegian performers shine on discs devoted to the Grieg Violin Sonatas with Hennig Kraggerud and Pianist Helge Kjekshus” Turok's Choice, December 2001 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Grieg: Sonatas for Violin & Piano
Egon Morbitzer (violin), Michael Stockigt (piano) | |
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| |  | Encore!: Gerhard Taschner plays Violin Sonatas & Virtuoso Pieces
Beethoven: | Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 'Spring' Violin Sonata No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 12 No. 3 | Brahms: | Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78 | Chaminade: | Sérénade espagnole, Op. 150 arr. by Kreisler | Dvorak: | Slavonic Dance No. 10 in E minor, Op. 72 No. 2 arr. by Kreisler Sonatina for violin and piano in G major, Op. 100 | Fairchild: | Mosquitos | Falla: | Danse Espagnole (from La Vida Breve) arr. by Fritz Kreisler | Gershwin: | Short Story arr. by S. Dushkin | Ginastera: | Milonga, Op. 3 | Grieg: | Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45 Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 13 | Kreisler: | Praeludium and Allegro (in the style of Pugnani) Schön Rosmarin Caprice Viennois, Op. 2 | Mussorgsky: | Sorochintsy Fair: Gopak arr. by S. Dushkin | Paganini: | Caprice for solo violin, Op. 1 No. 24 in A minor arr. by Szymanowski Violin Sonata, Op. 12 arr. by Delphin Alard | Ravel: | Violin Sonata in G major | Sarasate: | Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25 Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 Danza Española No. 6: Zapateado, Op. 23, No. 2 Danza Española No. 1: Malagueña, Op. 21, No. 1 Danza Española No. 3: Romanza Andaluza, Op. 22, No. 1 | Schoeck: | Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 16 | Tartini: | Variations on a Theme of Corelli arr. by Kreisler | Vladigerov: | Racenista, for violin & piano, Op. 18/2 | Zarzycki: | Mazurka in G, Op. 26 |
Gerhard Taschner (violin), Martin Krause (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Jascha Heifetz plays Great Violin Sonatas
Bach, J S: | Sonata for solo violin No. 1 in G minor, BWV1001 Sonata for solo violin No. 2 in A minor, BWV1003 Sonata for solo violin No. 3 in C major, BWV1005 | Beethoven: | Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-10 (Complete) | Bloch, E: | Violin Sonata No. 1 Violin Sonata No. 2 ‘Poème mystique' | Boccherini: | Sonata for Flute or Violin & Harpsichord, Op. 5 No. 4 in D major, G 28 | Brahms: | Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (complete) | Debussy: | Violin Sonata | Fauré: | Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13 | Ferguson, H: | Violin Sonata No. 1 | Grieg: | Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 13 | Handel: | Sonata in D major for violin and continuo, HWV371, Op. 1 No. 13 | Khachaturian: | Sonata for Violin and Piano | Mozart: | Violin Sonata No. 32 in B flat major, K454 Violin Sonata No. 26 in B flat major, K378 | Respighi: | Violin Sonata in B minor | Saint-Saëns: | Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75 | Schubert: | Sonatina in G minor, D408 (Op. posth. 137 No. 3) | Strauss, R: | Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 18 |
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