Günter Raphael: Music for Violin: First Recordings on CD

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I am convinced that the music's inherent humanity, depth of feeling, warmth and optimism will endure long after the more fashionable example of Raphael's (and our own) contemporaries have fallen... — International Record Review, March 2011 More…

Release Date: 1st Nov 2010
Catalogue No: TOCC0122
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 60 minutes

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Raphael, G: Violin Sonatina in B Minor, Op. 52

Work length11:39

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Pauline Reguig, Emilio Peroni

I. Massig

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II. Breit und gesangvoll

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III. Tanzerisch belebt, dabei etwas schwerfallig und derb

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Raphael, G: Violin Sonata in E Major, Op. 46, No. 2

Work length11:49

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Pauline Reguig

I. Sehr langsam

Track length3:40

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II. Scherzo. Ganze takte

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III. Gemessen

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Raphael, G: Duo Sonata in G Minor, Op. 47, No. 1

Work length10:41

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Pauline Reguig, Darius Kaunas

I. Mit lebhafter energie

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II. Langsam gehend (in fliessender bewegung)

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III. Nicht zu lebhaft, ein wenig gemachlich

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Raphael, G: Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 46, No. 1

Work length8:49

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Pauline Reguig

I. In Form einer freien Fantasie

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II. Ruhig und gesangvoll

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III. Ausserst schnell

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Raphael, G: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 43

Work length17:02

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Pauline Reguig, Emilio Peroni

I. Vivace

Track length6:50

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II. Allegretto grazioso

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III. Con fuoco

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Günter Raphael (1903–60) was a composing prodigy whose First Symphony was premiered by Furtwängler at the age of only 23. His music was also championed by the Busch Quartet, and he became one of the youngest professors at the Leipzig Conservatoire.

In 1934 he was declared a ‘half-Jew’ by the Nazis and was forced from his teaching position in Leipzig, moving to Meiningen where his wife, a pianist, held a teaching position.

In 1937 he caught tuberculosis – which, paradoxically, was to be the saving of him: confined to hospital during the War years, he continued to compose while his doctors protected him from persecution. After the war he went back to teaching and ended as professor at the Cologne Musikhochschule, before finally succumbing to the disease which he had fought for so long.

Stylistically his music lies in the mainstream of German Romanticism as refracted through Hindemith. These violin works are strongly melodic and rhythmically vital; the two solo sonatas have echoes of Bach.

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March 2011

I am convinced that the music's inherent humanity, depth of feeling, warmth and optimism will endure long after the more fashionable example of Raphael's (and our own) contemporaries have fallen into deserved oblivion...One can sense that these gifted artists play this music with obvious inner conviction. This is a fascinating and, no doubt, in its way, important issue.

15th May 2014

The solo sonatas are fascinating examples of Raphael’s surety in writing for the instrument, refined and purposeful in slower passages, and more acrid and angular in the faster ones. The writing sits somewhere between the violin music of Reger and Karl Amadeus Hartmann.

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