Brahms: The Five Sonatas for Violin & Piano Vol. 2

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If you didn’t know, you could easily accept this as an original. It helps that Ulf Wallin’s rich tone favours the lower tessitura where much of the music still resides, and that there’s a flow... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 3rd Jan 2020
Catalogue No: BIS2419
Label: BIS
Length: 67 minutes

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Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 120 No. 2

Work length21:48

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Ulf Wallin (violin), Roland Pöntinen (piano)

I. Allegro amabile

Track length8:37

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II. Allegro appassionato

Track length5:27

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III. Andante con moto

Track length7:44

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Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100

Work length21:52

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Ulf Wallin (violin), Roland Pöntinen (piano)

I. Allegro amabile

Track length9:01

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II. Andante tranquillo - Vivace

Track length6:46

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III. Allegretto grazioso, quasi andante

Track length6:05

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Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108

Work length23:29

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Ulf Wallin (violin), Roland Pöntinen (piano)

I. Allegro

Track length9:09

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II. Adagio

Track length4:36

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III. Un poco presto e con sentimento

Track length3:11

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IV. Presto agitato

Track length6:33

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Ulf Wallin and Roland Pöntinen made their first duo-recording for BIS in 1991 and have released acclaimed recital discs ranging from Schumann and Liszt to Alfred Schnittke, by way of Schoenberg and Hindemith. With the present disc they bring their most recent project to a close: a recording of all the works by Johannes Brahms for violin and piano. These include not only the three well-known and -loved numbered violin sonatas, but also the Scherzo from the so-called F.A.E. Sonata and the composer’s own violin versions of the two sonatas for clarinet and piano. Wallin and Pöntinen open the present disc with Sonata No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 120, composed in 1894 for clarinet and transcribed for the violin a year later. As the clarinet part extends further down than the lowest note on the violin, Brahms made considerable revisions to the clarinet part, which entailed changes in the piano part, and consequently the printing of a new piano score. This is followed by the second and third violin sonatas, in A major and D minor respectively. Both works were composed during the summer of 1886 in Thun in Switzerland and are clearly related, even though they inhabit completely different expressive worlds.

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March 2020

If you didn’t know, you could easily accept this as an original. It helps that Ulf Wallin’s rich tone favours the lower tessitura where much of the music still resides, and that there’s a flow to the rhythms and phrasing, with rubato affectionately shaped in the main.

Jul/Aug 2020

Wallin and Pöntinen take their place alongside such lofty teams as Perlman/Ashkenazy and Dumay/Pires. If you’re interested mainly in the original violin sonatas, the fact that they are spread over two discs is a disadvantage; however, for those curious about the violin versions of the clarinet sonatas, Wallin and Pöntinen become a clear first choice.

February 2020

Wallin and Pöntinen tend to favour spacious tempos...Such broad pacing allows the players time to highlight and savour details as well as to be scrupulous in their attention to clean articulation and rhythmic clarity…The recording quality is ideally balanced and most flattering to both musicians.

Richly coloured playing in the second volume from a terrific duo...Wallin is sweeping and elegiac, gentle and confidential ...playing of exuberant melodic expression.

Brahms: The Five Sonatas for Violin & Piano Vol. 2

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