Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op.12 No.1, Op.24 & Op.96
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op.12 No.1, Op.24 & Op.96
Rachel Podger (violin), Christopher Glynn
[ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Friday 8 April 2022
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Rachel Podger, "the unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin" (The Times), and Grammy award-winning pianist Christopher Glynn recorded Beethoven's Sonatas for Violin and Piano nos. 1, 5 and 10. Following the critically acclaimed Mozart/Jones Sonatas Fragment Completions (2021), this Beethoven album marks Podger and Glynn's second release together.
Reading about Ludwig van Beethoven as a performer usually brings up the inevitable stories about his characteristic and idiosyncratic piano playing in Vienna. But delving further into his early years in Bonn, we read that, as a musician at the court of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, he was active as both organist and viola player. And when he left for Vienna in 1792 he was advised to take violin lessons with Ignaz Schuppanzigh.
Beethoven's profound understanding of both the violin and the piano, and ability to combine them with astonishing invention and originality, is heard in ten sonatas. Three of which are performed on this new album.
"Listening to Rachel Podger (on the 'Mauri' Strad) and Christopher Glynn (on an 1840 Erard) is like experiencing the music in the clear light of day for the first time. Gone are those texturally swamping instrumental resonances, while vibrato is employed exquisitely as a subtle colouration rather than as an expressive default." BBC Chamber Choice May 22
"Surveys of the 10 sonatas on period instruments are considerably less rare than they once were but this selection - the inauguration of a cycle? - stands out for its individuality and a characteristic refusal to take the music at face value." Gramophone
Tracks:
Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: I. Allegro con brio
Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: II. Tema con variazioni. Andante con moto
Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: III. Rondo. Allegro
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24: I. Allegro
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24: II. Adagio molto espressivo
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24: III. Scherzo. Allegro molto - Trio
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24: IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo
Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96: I. Allegro moderato
Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96: II. Adagio espressivo
Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96: III. Scherzo. Allegro (G minor) - Trio
Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96: IV. Poco Allegretto
