Pijper & Escher: Violin Sonatas

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First-rate, spry and sensitive playing makes Graffin's and Blanken's advocacy persuasive. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2011 More…

Release Date: 31st May 2011
Catalogue No: ONYX4080
Label: Onyx
Length: 78 minutes

Pijper: Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano

Work length14:02

$3.00

$4.20

Philippe Graffin, Jelger Blanken

I. Commodo (Andante-Allegro)

Track length4:53

$1.00

$1.40

II. Tempo di menuetto tranquillo

Track length3:31

$1.00

$1.40

III. Quasi scherzando (Allegro)

Track length5:38

$1.00

$1.40

Pijper: Sonata for Violin Solo

Work length13:52

$4.00

$5.60

Philippe Graffin, Jelger Blanken

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length3:30

$1.00

$1.40

II. Moderato

Track length4:09

$1.00

$1.40

III. Adagio

Track length2:58

$1.00

$1.40

IV. Veloce

Track length3:15

$1.00

$1.40

Pijper: Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano

Work length15:33

$3.50

$4.90

Philippe Graffin, Jelger Blanken

I. Molto Tranquillo

Track length8:10

$1.50

$2.10

II. Andantino leggiero

Track length3:27

$1.00

$1.40

III. Molto moderato

Track length3:56

$1.00

$1.40

Escher: Sonata for violin and piano

Work length21:25

$3.50

$4.90

Philippe Graffin, Jelger Blanken

I. Allegro

Track length5:39

$1.00

$1.40

II. Largo

Track length9:10

$1.50

$2.10

III. Allegro moderato-Allegro molto

Track length6:36

$1.00

$1.40

Voormolen: Pastorale for oboe and piano

Work length5:14

$1.00

$1.40

Philippe Graffin, Jelger Blanken

Leeuw: Sonatina for Violin and Piano: Vivace - Lento - Tempo I

Work length6:17

$1.00

$1.40

Philippe Graffin, Jelger Blanken

Leeuw: Improvisation on the Dutch Christmas Carol "Midden in de Winternacht"

Work length2:10

$1.00

$1.40

Philippe Graffin, Jelger Blanken

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Unfamiliar names to many, Willem Pijper and Rudolf Escher are the two major figures in 20th-century Dutch music.

Pijper was a symphonist, composer of operas, and a noted writer on music, and his enthusiasm for motor cars saw him publishing ‘The Artistic Side of Motoring’.

One of Pijper’s pupils was Escher, who assimilated the influences of Debussy, Schoenberg and Ravel. He composed two symphonies and became a noted expert on modern music, embracing Boulez.

Hardly better known outside of Holland is Ton de Leeuw, who worked under Messiaen and Hartmann. His early music shows influences of Bartók, Hindemith and Pijper. The Violin Sonata dates from 1951. His later works reflect his interest in music from India and the Far East, and electronic sounds.

This is an important release of little-known music by the most influential Dutch composers of the last century.

Reviews

October 2011

First-rate, spry and sensitive playing makes Graffin's and Blanken's advocacy persuasive.

12th June 2011

the pieces by Pijper, Rudolf Escher, Alexander Voormolen and Ton de Leeuw set one thinking. Memorable are such moments as when the concluding scherzando of Pijper’s Sonata No 1 transforms into a haunting adagio. And De Leeuw’s tiny, spectral improvisation on a Dutch Christmas carol is itself a pure enigma.

21st July 2011

Dutch 20th-century violin sonatas might be a niche area, but when an artist of Philippe Graffin’s calibre espouses them you tend to sit up and take notice. Willem Pijper offers a unique slant on French Impressionism in two sonatas with piano while Rudolf Escher looks back to Ravel and voices personal anguish triggered by the Second World War.

Pijper & Escher: Violin Sonatas

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