Franck - Violin Sonata; Chausson - Concert in D major
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Cat No: HMM902254
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 19th May 2017
Contents
Artists
Isabelle Faust (violin)Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Salagon Quartet
Works
Concert in D major for piano, violin and string quartet, op.21Violin Sonata in A major
Artists
Isabelle Faust (violin)Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Salagon Quartet
About
The Sonata is Franck’s most frequently played and recorded work. Premiered by Eugène Ysaÿe, in Brussels on 16 December 1886, a judge as shrewd as Alfred Cortot was lucid enough to make an arrangement for solo piano. Since then it has been transcribed for nearly every instrument on the planet and is a permanent staple of the repertoire. Although it is devoid of passages in double stopping or pizzicato, the violin part, replete with treacherous chromatic twists and turns, nonetheless poses formidable difficulties of intonation.
Franck's influence on Ernest Chausson's Concert is unmistakable. A late-Romantic hybrid, the work blends elements of piano and string quintet styles and here regains a freshness which delicately illuminates, in the hands of Faust and Melnikov. Completed a year after the Symphony in B flat, and again written for Ysaÿe, the Concert asserts its roots in the heritage of Rameau and Couperin, thus foreshadowing Debussy’s Hommage à Rameau (1905) and Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin (1917).
“Alexander Melnikov's bright, at times almost puckish, piano playing is perfectly matched by the violinist Isabel Faust. She is one of the few violinists who virtually always hits the note dead-centre, and her rapport with Melnikov is clear.” – Rob Cowan, The Independent
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