Marx: Chamber Music, Vol. 1

 
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JOSEPH MARX
Marx: Chamber Music, Vol. 1
Vida Vujić (cello), Minna Pensola (violin), Simone Sgarbanti (piano)

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Release Date: Friday 14 August 2026

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This first volume of Joseph Marx's chamber music charts a period of 30 years from the cello works of 1913-14 to the Violin Sonata No. 2, written in 1944, shortly before he ceased all composition. The Pastorale is characteristically subtle with impressionistic devices harnessed to ever-changing variations. The Suite in F major, for which the Pastorale was originally intended, balances a rural idyll with more sombre elements, informed by a noble Classical design.

Violin Sonata No. 2, subtitled Frühlingssonate ('Spring Sonata'), consciously re-uses material from earlier works to form a lyrical dance-like work irradiated by ingenious harmonic twists.

Tracks:

Suite in F major for Cello and Piano (1914)
1 I. Präludium
2 II. Largo
3 III. Menuett
4 IV. Finale
5 Pastorale for Cello and Piano (1913)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major
'Frühlingssonate' ('Spring Sonata') (1944)
6 I. Allegro espressivo
7 II. Allegretto (im Serenadenton)
8 III. Moderato