Lekeu - Music for Violin, Cello and Piano
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95739
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 12th April 2019
Contents
Artists
Bruno Monteiro (violin)Miguel Rocha (cello)
Joao Paulo Santos (piano)
Works
Piano TrioViolin Sonata in G major
Artists
Bruno Monteiro (violin)Miguel Rocha (cello)
Joao Paulo Santos (piano)
About
The Belgian Lekeu left behind him a small but individual output of mostly chamber music. He found his voice as a precocious teenager, and felt able to declare at the age of 17 that his music might be ‘weird, mad, horrible, anything you like, but at least it will be original!’ Following both Wagner and his principal model, César Franck, the predominant mood of his music is melancholy: ‘Joy is a thousand times harder to paint than suffering,’ he once declared.
This album features his two best-known works. Dating from 1890, the Piano Trio is in fact one of his most restrained and least Wagnerian pieces. A complex first movement is full of fleeting expression, followed in more conventional form by a slow movement, scherzo and finale with slow introduction.
Commissioned by his fellow Belgian, the violinist Eugène Ysaÿe, Lekeu’s Violin Sonata is his masterpiece. It attains a rare balance and purity of expression through a beautifully balanced relationship between the instruments and through the kind of cyclical unity of form and melody that Franck perfected.
These performances are led by the Portuguese violinist Bruno Monteiro, whose discography on Brilliant Classics includes widely praised albums of Schulhoff (BC95324) and Szymanowski (BC94979).
‘Every release from Bruno Monteiro and João Paulo Santos confirms them as a tremendously adventurous and musical partnership.’ - Classical.net
‘Classical CD of the week’ in Forbes (Szymanowski)
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