Brahms - The Five Sonatas for Violin & Piano Vol.1 | BIS BIS2369

Brahms - The Five Sonatas for Violin & Piano Vol.1

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BIS2369

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 28th June 2019

Contents

Artists

Ulf Wallin (violin)
Roland Pontinen (piano)

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Clarinet Sonata no.1 in F minor, op.120 no.1 (violin)
Lieder (4), op.46
» no.4 An die Nachtigall (arr. for violin and piano)
Lieder (5), op.72
» no.3 O kuhler Wald (arr. for violin and piano)
Scherzo in C minor (F.A.E. Sonata), WoO2
Violin Sonata no.1 in G major, op.78

Artists

Ulf Wallin (violin)
Roland Pontinen (piano)

About

Asked the question ‘How many sonatas for violin and piano did Johannes Brahms compose?’, many lovers of chamber music would probably answer three, and maybe also add their respective keys and opus numbers. When pressed, a number of them would also remember the so-called F.A.E. Sonata, a collaborative effort by the young Brahms, Albert Dietrich and their mentor Robert Schumann. But very few would probably think of the two Opus 120 sonatas, composed in 1894 for clarinet (or viola) and piano, but a year later published in the composer’s own version for the violin. As the range of the B flat clarinet goes a fourth lower than that of the violin, Brahms had been forced to make considerable revisions to the clarinet part – which in turn entailed changes in the piano part, and consequently the printing of a new piano score.

The seasoned team of violinist Ulf Wallin and pianist Roland Pöntinen have now decided to record all the Brahms sonatas, and the results are being released on two discs, the first one including the first of the ‘official’ sonatas, No.1 in G major, op.78, the F minor Sonata from op.120 and Brahms’s Scherzo from the F.A.E. Sonata. Wallin and Pöntinen round off the programme with transcriptions of two of Brahms’s more lyrical songs.

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