Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 5 & 8
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 5 & 8
Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin), Huw Watkins (piano)
[ Signum / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 26 June 0020
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Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins return with the start of a Beethoven Violin Sonata Cycle - here recording the 1st, 5th and 8th sonatas. Gramophone Magazine said "The heart gives a little leap at the prospect of…a duo as engaging and intelligent as Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins." This cycle is sure to be one of the highlights of Signum's year, as well as of Beethoven 250.
Beethoven's twelve violin sonatas add up to a comprehensive exploration of the possibilities and potential of writing for the two instruments on equal terms - possibilities that he was ideally placed to understand. The three sonatas on this recording are waypoints on a journey, crafted by a composer who was both violinist and pianist, and who never ceased exploring the practical possibilities of the instruments for which he wrote.
"Their complementary personalities (recorded with a balance in the violinist's favour, unlike Ehnes and Armstrong) meet most harmoniously in the Spring Sonata's Adagio, where Watkins draws an appealing, fortepiano-like resonance from the piano and Waley-Cohen's phrasing taps the music's pastoral roots… Each of the three sonatas inhabits its own costume, made to measure." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2020
Tracks:
Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 12 No. 1
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 "Spring"
Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30 No. 3
