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COMPACT DISC ONE
Chamber Works
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Sonata, Op. post. 137 No.1, D 384 (1816) *‡
12:14
'Sonatina' for Piano and Violin
1.
Allegro molto
4:08
2.
Andante
4:04
3.
Allegro vivace
3:57
Sonata, Op. post. 137 No.2, D 385 (1816) *‡
22:17
'Sonatina' for Piano and Violin
4.
Allegro moderato
8:29
5.
Andante
6:56
6.
Menuetto. Allegro - Trio - Menuetto D.C.
2:05
7.
Allegro
4:36
Sonata, Op. post. 137 No.3, D 408 (1816) *‡
16:51
'Sonatina' for Piano and Violin
8.
Allegro giusto
5:11
9.
Andante
4:51
10.
Menuetto. Allegro vivace - Trio - Menuetto D.C.
2:25
11.
Allegro moderato
4:14
Sonata, Op. post. 162, D 574 (1817) *‡
22:46
12.
Allegro moderato
9:15
13.
Scherzo. Presto - [ ] - Tempo I - Trio - Scherzo da capo
3:59
14.
Andantino
4:22
15.
Allegro vivace
4:58
Total time: 73:30
 
 
 
COMPACT DISC TWO
Rondeau brillant, Op.70, D 895 (1826) *‡
14:14
for Piano and Violin
1.
Andante
3:26
2.
Allegro - Più mosso
10:48
Fantasie, Op. post.159, D 934 (1827) *‡
26:43
for Piano and Violin
3.
Andante molto -
3:53
4.
Allegretto -
5:27
5.
Andantino -
10:55
6.
Tempo I -
1:21
7.
Allegro vivace -
3:01
8.
Allegretto - Presto
2:03
Sonata, D 821 (1824) †‡
23:12
for Piano and Arpeggione (or Cello)
9.
Allegro moderato
10:25
10.
Adagio -
4:15
11.
Allegretto
8:26
12.
Adagio, Op. post.148, D897 (1827 or 1828) *†‡
9:37
for Piano, Violin and Cello
'Notturno'
Total time: 73:37
Solo:Tasmin Little violin *
Solo:Tim Hugh cello †
Solo:Piers Lane piano ‡
(Fantasie, Sonatas, D384, D385, D408) 22-24 April 2014 & (other works) 3 and 4 July 2014
Notes
The electrifying partnership of Tasmin Little and Piers Lane returns in this unique double-album featuring the complete works by Schubert for violin and piano, combined with the ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata and Adagio in E flat for piano trio, an unusual collection of highly emotional masterpieces. Little and Lane have enjoyed a long-standing collaboration both on stage and in recordings. They are joined by the cellist Tim Hugh, ‘a musician with a compelling insight into the creative urge behind the notes’ (The Times).
Schubert himself was a highly competent pianist and violinist, and his first pieces for violin and piano, composed when he was nineteen, have always been regarded as proper sonatas, although published as ‘sonatinas’ by Diabelli, perhaps because of their relative brevity.
There is little new to say about the monumental ‘Arpeggione’; but Schubert’s works for violin and piano are a treasured preparation for the immediacy found in both exuberant and anguished moments of this Sonata.
The Rondeau brillant, Fantasie, and Adagio are later pieces, making use of a valuable resource which was not a major ingredient in the early works: virtuosity. Gramophone has already praised the ‘complete understanding and spontaneity’ of the artists, who ‘bring moments of true musical virtuosity’ to their first album.
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Reviews
“...For Tasmin Little and Piers Lane’s Schubert works for violin and piano, an enthusiastic recommendation. Excellent notes and, as always, deep sound-stage and detailed recording from Chandos.”
Jerry Dubins – Fanfare – November/December 2015
"... Tasmin Little and Piers Lane tackle Schubert’s violin works with suave elegance. Lane’s passagework sparkles and gleams, often propelled by a forthright sense of the music’s equality between the two instruments. Little’s vibrato is varied cannily depending on the dictates of the more flighty elements of the music or its more communing slow movements. Ensemble, as one should expect of this partnership, is solid. I can point to any number of felicitous moments and phrases The two discs offer an interesting slant on these works and Potton Hall proves an estimable recording location once again."
Jonathan Woolf - MusicWeb-International.com - 9 July 2015
Performance **** Recording *****
"... The last item is a sublime slow movement for a trio, superbly played ..."
Michael Tanner - BBC Music magazine - August 2015
**** (Excellent Album)
Ettore Napoli - Musica magazine (Italy) - June 2015
*** (Good Disc) *** (Good Sound)
Jacques Bonnaura – Classica magazine (France) – June 2015
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