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This is not Annette-Barbara Vogel's first Gál recording...Her new account is more assured still, more relaxed in allowing the music's inner volatility without trying too hard… — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st Mar 2010
Catalogue No: AV2182
Label: Avie
Length: 61 minutes

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Gál, H: Sonata for violin & piano Op. 17

Work length25:31

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Annette-Barbara Vogel, Juhani Lagerspetz

Patetico molto moderato

Track length9:43

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Quasi allegretto

Track length6:19

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Adagio molto espressivo

Track length9:29

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Gál, H: Suite in G major, Op. 56

Work length12:35

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Annette-Barbara Vogel, Juhani Lagerspetz

Preambulo

Track length1:41

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Capriccio

Track length2:27

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Aria

Track length4:09

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Rondo

Track length4:18

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Gál, H: Sonata in D for Violin and Piano

Work length22:59

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Annette-Barbara Vogel, Juhani Lagerspetz

Allegretto quasi andante

Track length9:26

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II. Scherzo - Vivace

Track length5:32

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III. Largo con espressione - Allegro poco sostenuto, ma con fuoco

Track length8:01

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The follow-up to Avie’s critically acclaimed release of Hans Gal’s complete works for solo piano is an equally appealing recording of works for violin and piano.

Avie spurred the renaissance of Hans Gál’s music with the first-ever release of his complete works for solo piano (AV2064). The 3-CD set, performed by Leeds Competition winner Leon McCawley, garnered a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, and brought Gál’s effortlessly pleasing music to a broader public. Born near Vienna, the son of a Jewish doctor, Gál was a “continental Briton” who emigrated from Germany at the outbreak of WWII, to Edinburgh where he settled and remained until his death in 1987. During an era that saw the rise and dominance of 12-tone composition, stylistically Gál remained steadfastly true to himself – melodic and accessible.

The bookends of this album are two Sonatas. The B-flat minor, Op. 17 is – in the words of the composer’s grandson, Simon Fox-Gál, who also produced the recording - "one of Gál's most outwardly-expressive chamber works". The Sonata in D, published posthumously, was written in 1933; its serenity and optimism belie the turmoil of Gal’s life at the time, the Nazi regime having ousted him from his post in Mainz and refusing him work in Vienna. Sandwiched in between is the considerably lighter Suite in G Major, which had its origins in Gal’s Viennese period 1936-37, but was modified to its eventual form and premiered in Edinburgh in 1942.

German violinist Annette-Barbara Vogel has become one of Gál’s most ardent proponents. She says, “Early on, I was struck by how genuine and pure Gál’s music was…when I think of the man’s musical language: nostalgic, elegant, innocent, generous, melodic, assertive, rhythmically driven, emotionally rich…never trivial or superficial.” Vogel has also recorded Gal’s Violin Concerto and Concertino which will also be released in 2010.

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August 2010

This is not Annette-Barbara Vogel's first Gál recording...Her new account is more assured still, more relaxed in allowing the music's inner volatility without trying too hard…

28th March 2010

It’s music well worth championing, the product of the musically comparatively conservative side of the new Viennese school...plenty of rich tonal harmony and adventurous harmonic excursion, together with a ripe sense of the lyrical, an expansive view of classical forms and unexpected sharp contrasts of mood.

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