Beethoven Plus Vol.2
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD01972
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 3rd June 2019
Contents
Works
AirViolin Sonata no.6 in A major, op.30 no.1
Violin Sonata no.7 in C minor, op.30 no.2
Violin Sonata no.9 in A major, op.47 'Kreutzer'
Violin Sonata no.10 in G major, op.96
Sonatina for violin and piano, op.128
Unterwegs nach Heiligenstadt
Tarantella furiosa
Artists
Krysia Osostowicz (violin)Daniel Tong (piano)
Works
AirViolin Sonata no.6 in A major, op.30 no.1
Violin Sonata no.7 in C minor, op.30 no.2
Violin Sonata no.9 in A major, op.47 'Kreutzer'
Violin Sonata no.10 in G major, op.96
Sonatina for violin and piano, op.128
Unterwegs nach Heiligenstadt
Tarantella furiosa
Artists
Krysia Osostowicz (violin)Daniel Tong (piano)
About
The result is a fascinating conversation between past and present in which Beethoven’s mastery of the form prompts illuminating – and often surprising – commentary from entirely modern perspectives.
Volume 2 includes Beethoven’s three most substantial Sonatas – opp. 30 no.2, 47 and 96 – and the enigmatic A major (op.30 no.1); works that go to the very heart of the composer’s life, aspirations and music.
New here are complementary and contrasting works that include Kurt Schwertsik’s probing, sincerely touching two-movement Unterwegs nach Heiligenstadt, which begins in angst and ends in sublime C major; Matthew Taylor’s whirlwind Tarantella furiosa, a virtuosic encore of sorts to Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata; and Philip Ashworth’s Air, a lilting, lyrical commentary that seems to offer a response, in its conclusion, to Beethoven’s famously rhetorical query “Must it be so?”
David Matthews’s Sonatina completes the new commissions in a compact, concentrated form that emulates Beethoven with almost forensic attention to detail, even while opening out his interrogation of the op.96 Sonata (Beethoven’s last such work for violin and piano) with challenging demands on both violin and piano.
Beethoven Plus was presented in a series of concerts by Krysia Osostowicz and Daniel Tong (who provides informative booklet notes) at the Kings Place, London in 2015 and has since been performed in leading venues around the UK.
Reviewing Volume 1, Gramophone hailed “Osostowicz and Tong’s interpretative style [as] patient, affectionate, warmly conversational, sensitive to harmonic detail”, its reviewer adding: “I think I may have sighed with pleasure”.
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