Kuhlau - Violin Sonatas
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95220
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 22nd April 2016
Contents
Works
Adagio e Rondo for piano 4-hands, op.124Allegro pathetique for piano 4-hands, op.123
Violin Sonatas (3), op.79
Artists
Giorgio Leonida Tosi (baroque violin)Ileana Frontini (piano)
Paolo Porto (piano)
Works
Adagio e Rondo for piano 4-hands, op.124Allegro pathetique for piano 4-hands, op.123
Violin Sonatas (3), op.79
Artists
Giorgio Leonida Tosi (baroque violin)Ileana Frontini (piano)
Paolo Porto (piano)
About
Most of his chamber music features the flute, a commercially astute selection given the popularity of the instrument among amateur musicians at the time, even though Kuhlau was no flautist himself. There are, however, three piano quartets, a late string quartet closely modelled on Beethoven’s Op.132, and four violin sonatas. This Op.79 set was composed as a trio in Copenhagen in 1826, the year after he got drunk on champagne one evening with Beethoven, who wrote a canon at the time and sent it along later with a mock‐apology: ‘In this case, I haven’t the slightest memory of what I wrote yesterday… Think of me now and again, your devoted Beethoven.’
All three sonatas are melodically fresh, dramatically imposing works that should not stand too shyly in the shadow of Beethoven’s contributions to the genre: the first and third are largely extrovert, whereas the second is thoughtful and intimate in character. The sonatas are juxtaposed here with late and brilliant works for piano four hands which may reveal the influence of Schubert, so unconventional is their form, so bold the evocation of Romantic sonorities on the keyboard: on this album of historically informed performances by young Italian musicians, the instrument used is a Stein piano of Viennese manufacture, dating from 1830.
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