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…a rewarding recital programme that confirms van Keulen and Brautigam as one of the most compelling violin and piano partnerships around today. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 25th May 2009
Catalogue No: CC72307
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 67 minutes

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Strauss, R: Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 18

Work length27:03

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Isabelle van Keulen, Ronald Brautigam

I. Allegro, ma non troppo

Track length10:49

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II. Improvisation - Andante cantabile

Track length7:55

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III. Finale - Andante, Allegro

Track length8:19

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Rota, N: Sonata for Violin and Piano

Work length14:23

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Isabelle van Keulen, Ronald Brautigam

I. Allegretto cantabile con moto

Track length6:10

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II. Largo sostenuto

Track length3:40

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III. Allegro assai moderato

Track length4:33

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Respighi: Violin Sonata in B minor

Work length25:41

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Isabelle van Keulen, Ronald Brautigam

I. Moderato

Track length8:46

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II. Andante espressivo

Track length8:34

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III. Passacaglia - Allegro moderato ma energico

Track length8:21

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At the turn of the 19th and 20th century, the violin sonata experienced a considerable renaissance. A fundamentally conservative genre, it suddenly sparkled with vitality. The relationship to tradition is the crucial point of the resulting works and it makes up part of their fascination. The sonatas by Richard Strauss, Ottorino Respighi and Nino Rota on this enterprising album are examples of three different ways of coming to terms with the desire to change the violin sonata in the period 1887 to 1936.

As a world class violinist and violist, the charismatic Isabelle van Keulen has an established reputation on many famous concert stages. She is closely involved in the performance of contemporary music – works by living composers regularly feature in Van Keulen’s repertoire – but chamber music is also central to her music-making. She’s collaborated with such distinguished friends and colleagues as Leif Ove Andsnes, Håkan Hardenberger, Gidon Kremer, Heinrich Schiff and Thomas Adès, and has just been announced as the new violinist in the Leopold String Trio. But she also maintains a highly successful duo with fellow Dutch musician Ronald Brautigam, appearing at the Wigmore Hall in London and elsewhere. Their previous Challenge recording – an anniversary tribute to Elgar, Grieg and Sibelius – was a BBC Music Magazine ‘Choice’. Pianist Ronald Brautigam, one of Holland’s leading musicians, is remarkable not only for his virtuosity and musicality but also for the eclectic nature of his musical interests. He studied in Amsterdam, London and the United States of America with Rudolf Serkin. In 1984 he was awarded the ‘Nederlandse Muziekprijs’, the highest Dutch musical award.

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June 2009

…a rewarding recital programme that confirms van Keulen and Brautigam as one of the most compelling violin and piano partnerships around today.

September 2009

Imaginative programming and vivid playing make an attractive disc. The Respighi is rather better known than the Rota and almost twice its size, yet shares the same sense of enjoyment in melody in an intimate setting. Van Keulen and Brautigam are at their finest here... shaping the themes equally adroitly as sonata elements as well as tunes to be relished for their own sake. The piano sounds a touch tinny at the close of the opening Moderato but otherwise this rendition is flawless.

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