James Ehnes & Andrew Armstrong - Debussy, Elgar, Respighi & Sibelius: Violin Sonatas (2016)
James Ehnes & Andrew Armstrong - Debussy, Elgar, Respighi & Sibelius: Violin Sonatas
Classical | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, booklet | 68:54 min | 260 MB
Label: Onyx Classics | Tracks: 10 | Rls.date: 2016
Classical | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, booklet | 68:54 min | 260 MB
Label: Onyx Classics | Tracks: 10 | Rls.date: 2016
After a rapturous critical reception for their Franck & Strauss Violin Sonatas, [see below] James and Andrew turn their attention to three violin sonatas all composed around the years of World War I. The Sibelius 'Berceuse' also dates from the war years when Finland was isolated from the rest of Europe. Sibelius was short of money and busy writing the 6th and 7th symphonies, and planning his 8th: the six short pieces of Op. 79 were attractive to publishers who were wary of large scale works with little chance of commercial return during the hostilities. Debussy would die in 1918 and had, like Elgar, composed very little during the conflict. 'I want to work,' he wrote to his publisher Durand, 'not so much for myself, as to provide a proof, however small, that thirty million Boches can t destroy French thought'. Elgar told a friend 'I cannot do any real work with the awful shadow hanging over us' he said. Suffering from ill health, Elgar wrote the sonata in Sussex where a copse of gnarled lightning-ravaged trees, near his house on the South Downs, inspired him to embark on three late great chamber works. Respighi s sonata inhabits a heroic late romantic almost Brahmsian world, seemingly unscathed by the devastation of the War to end all wars .
These three three-movement, highly substantial sonatas were written around the same time, 1916-19, but it is an imaginative stroke to bring them together. While the Debussy and Elgar works, shot through with poignancy in their different idioms, are widely encountered, Respighi s sonata, his second (this one in B minor), is rather a rarity. It is well worth discovering, not least for its impassioned central andante. The finale is a passacaglia in the mould of the last movement of Brahms s Fourth Symphony, the ending dark and stormy. The sumptuously played sequence ends with a captivating, brief Berceuse, also from this period, by Sibelius. –Paul Driver The Sunday Times, 27th March 2016
Performance: ***** Recording: ***** 'This is a radiantly engineered album of music composed around the time of the Great War, played with beguiling elegance by James Ehnes and regular playing partner Andrew Armstrong.' –Julian Haylock BBC Music Magazine, June 2016
MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL RECORDING OF THE MONTH 'A well-conceived programme in first class performances.' –Ian Lace MusicWeb International, May 2016
TRACKLIST
Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata in G Minor, L. 140
01. I. Allegro vivo
02. II. Intermede - Fastaque et leger
03. III. Finale - Très animé
Edward Elgar: Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op. 82
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Romance - Andante
06. III. Allegro non troppo
Ottorino Respighi: Violin Sonata in B Minor, P. 110
07. I. Moderato
08. II. Andante espressivo
09. III. Passacaglia - Allegro moderato ma energico
Jean Sibelius: 10 Pensées Lyriques, Op. 40: V. Berceuse
10 Pensées Lyriques, Op. 40: V. Berceuse
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James Ehnes, Andrew Armstrong / Debussy, Elgar, Respighi & Sibelius Violin Sonatas
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James Ehnes & Andrew Armstrong - Debussy, Elgar, Respighi & Sibelius: Violin Sonatas (2016)
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