Schumann / Bach / Brahms: Violin Sonatas
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SCHUMANN / BACH / BRAHMS
Schumann / Bach / Brahms: Violin Sonatas
Itzhak Perlman (violin) Martha Argerich (piano)
[ Warner Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 20 October 2016
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Itzhak Perlman and Martha Argerich have recorded a historic first studio album together: it has been 18 years since their last album together, a live recital from the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. On that momentous occasion in 1998, the pair performed three of the 19th century's most ambitious and enthralling works for violin and piano - Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, the Franck Violin Sonata and Schumann's Violin Sonata No.1. The first two sonatas were released in 1999 by EMI Classics (now Warner Classics) in what was the pair's only recording together until now.
"Working with Martha was a unique experience for me … Her brilliance and the colours she uses when she plays are recognisable as soon as you hear them - it's her; nobody else sounds like that… I am so excited that we were actually able to record together again… When this possibility came along that she might be able to have a couple of days free to record I said, 'I'll go any place!'" Itzhak Perlman
Martha Argerich added: "I feel so stimulated to play with Itzhak, it's really a feast - fantastic! It's a very special relationship, I am completely enchanted."
"Argerich's piano playing is supremely alive, moving under Perlman's muscular melody in ebbing, tugging waves...Perlman's tone may be fractionally less sweet than it was nearly two decades ago, but the sense of line in his playing remains supreme, and Argerich's Bach accompaniments are like a sprung dancefloor underneath him." The Guardian, 13th October 2016 ****
Tracks:
Bach, J S:
Sonata for Violin & Harpsichord No. 4 in C minor, BWV1017
recorded 2016
Brahms:
Sonatensatz (Scherzo from the F.A.E. sonata), WoO 2
recorded 2016
Schumann:
Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105
recorded 1998
Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
recorded 2016
