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Tasmin Little, Piers Lane - Richard Strauss, Ottorino Respighi: Violin Sonatas (2012)

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Date: 2 Aug 2021 13:36:46
Tasmin Little, Piers Lane - Richard Strauss, Ottorino Respighi: Violin Sonatas (2012)

Richard Strauss, Ottorino Respighi: Violin Sonatas (2012)
Tasmin Little, violin; Piers Lane, piano
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Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10749 | Time: 01:05:52

Tasmin Little has decided to showcase works by Ottorino Respighi and Richard Strauss in her latest recital album for Chandos. She is joined by the well-respected Australian pianist Piers Lane.

Respighi is best known for his orchestral music, and Richard Strauss for both his orchestral music and operas, and therefore their chamber music has tended to take a back seat, however unfairly. On this recording we explore a few such neglected works, all of which display the full range of emotion, drama, harmonic exploration, and technical brilliance that characterised romanticism at its height.

Respighi wrote his Violin Sonata at the peak of his creative powers. Full-blooded and romantic, it explores both Italian lyricism and powerful dramatic gestures, and as such provides both instrumentalists with a virtuoso workout.
The composer’s Sei pezzi (Six Pieces) for violin and piano inhabit the very different world of intimate salon music.

Tasmin Little and Piers Lane have chosen three of the six pieces for this album. No. 2, Melodia, is the only one originally intended for violin and piano, a brief, but lovely song without words. No. 4, Valse caressante, was written first for piano solo and, with its lolloping melodic lilt, is appropriately titled. Finally, No.5, Serenata, is based on material from Respighi’s first opera, Re Enzo, composed in 1904 – 05.

The Violin Sonata of Richard Strauss represents a crossroads in his creative journey. On the one hand, the language evokes the rigour and definition of Strauss as we know him. On the other, the sonata is an abstract work, not far removed from the dramatic sound-pictures and high romanticism so characteristic of the works of Liszt and Wagner.

Tasmin Little enjoys a flourishing career that has taken her to every continent and major orchestra around the world. She continues to champion seldom-performed repertoire, and her playing helped secure the Critics’ Choice Award at the 2011 Classic BRIT Awards for the Chandos recording of Elgar’s Violin Concerto, with alternative cadenza, and rarely heard Polonia. In great demand as a chamber musician, Piers Lane has given sold-out recitals at the Wigmore Hall, London and the opening recital at the new Melbourne Recital Centre.

Tasmin Little, Piers Lane - Richard Strauss, Ottorino Respighi: Violin Sonatas (2012)

Richard Strauss’s early Violin Sonata is so full of youthful rhetoric and so obviously pines for the colours of a full orchestra rather than the piano, that it’s often a difficult work to bring off convincingly. But Tasmin Little and Piers Lane turn in one of the most satisfying performances I’ve heard. Their judicious choice of tempos allows the music to breathe naturally. They also display an intense sympathy with Strauss’s melodic style, especially in their delicate and atmospheric account of the slow movement.

The Strauss is coupled on this recording with a remarkably eloquent interpretation of Respighi’s Sonata in B minor. This is also a rather problematic work, in its uneasy mix of Italianate lyricism and Germanic contrapuntal elaboration. Little and Lane’s relaxed yet focused reading of the first two movements is balanced by a thrusting, even aggressive account of the passacaglia finale: with its deep piano octaves, this is Respighi at his most Brahmsian. Little’s full‑toned bravura in this movement reminds us why this Sonata was a favourite of Jascha Heifetz, and Lane has to work just as hard. The three numbers from Respighi’s early Sei pezzi for violin and piano are essentially salon music, but of a refined and superior kind. They make for a very enjoyable filler.

Review by Calum MacDonald, BBC Music Magazine

Both Respighi and Richard Strauss made their reputations with large-scale orchestral works, at one time described by the critics as inflated but now recognised as masterpieces. Strauss’s similarly masterly E flat major Violin Sonata is an early work (1887) which reveals the composer’s talent for music in a more restrained textural way, yet is just as full of romantic emotional feeling. The writer of opera is instantly recognisable in the style of the rich melodic lines, while the often intricate piano accompaniments make clear that their composer was himself a first-rate pianist (as well as a fine violinist), which made his recitals with his wife, Pauline – whom he met at the time of writing his sonata – so successful. The Sonata itself is not only inspired but takes naturally to the medium of violin and the piano, with its lyrically melodic first movement, a charming improvisatory slow movement and an appassionato finale all with the compulsive forward impulse of his tone-poems.

Respighi’s Violin Sonata has in its first movement the agitato impetus and rhapsodic fluency of Strauss’s orchestral works. Its lovely slow movement has a yearning expressive feeling which draws the listener in, rising to and falling away from a passionate central climax. The finale all but disguises its passacaglia format with its thrustful vigour, jagged rhythms and changing moods but ends with a burst of sheer passion. Both sonatas are played here with complete understanding and spontaneity, and bring moments of true musical virtuosity. Piers Lane is a first-class pianist and forms a fine partnership with Tasmin Little, whose tone is caught with great beauty, for the Chandos recording is completely real and naturally balanced.

Three of the Six Pieces then offer an engaging codetta to the main works, charmingly lightweight, all but salon pieces, the balletic ‘Valse caressante’ particularly beguiling and the closing ‘Serenata’ winningly intimate.

Review by Ivan March, Gramophone


Tasmin Little, violin
Piers Lane, piano

Recording venue Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk; 9 – 11 May 2012

Tracklist:

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
[1]-[3] Sonata in E flat major for Violin and Piano, Op. 18 (TrV 151) (1887)

Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
[4]-[6] Sonata in B minor for Violin and Piano, P 110 (1917)

from Sei pezzi, P 31 (1901 – 05)
[7] 2. Melodia
[8] 4. Valse caressante
[9] 5. Serenata

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