Schubert: Fantasy in C major, Rondo in B minor & Sonata in A major

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Widmann and Lonquich are happy to take each piece on its own terms, to mainly winning effect. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Feb 2012
Catalogue No: 4764546
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 61 minutes

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Schubert: Fantasie in C major for violin and piano, D934

Work length25:02

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Carolin Widmann (violin), Alexander Lonquich (piano)
Recorded: 2010-10-04
Recording Venue: Reitstadl, Neumarkt/Opf.

Andante molto

Track length3:35

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Allegretto

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Andantino (Tema con variazioni)

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Tempo primo

Track length1:14

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Allegro vivace - Allegretto - Presto

Track length4:20

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Schubert: Rondo In B Minor, D. 895, Op. 70

Work length14:58

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Carolin Widmann (violin), Alexander Lonquich (piano)
Recorded: 2010-10-04
Recording Venue: Reitstadl, Neumarkt/Opf.

Andante

Track length3:27

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Allegro

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Schubert: Grand Duo for Violin and Piano in A Major, D574

Work length21:59

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Carolin Widmann (violin), Alexander Lonquich (piano)
Recorded: 2010-10-04
Recording Venue: Reitstadl, Neumarkt/Opf.

Allegro moderato

Track length9:20

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Scherzo

Track length3:56

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Andantino

Track length3:46

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Allegro vivace

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The young German violinist Carolin Widmann, who received praise and awards both for her accounts of Schumann’s Violin Sonatas and for the recital disc ‘Phantasy of Spring’ (music of Feldman, Zimmermann, Schoenberg and Xenakis) now applies her acute interpretive sensibilities to Franz Schubert. Widmann and pianist Alexander Lonquich (whose own ECM New Series disc with music of Schumann and Holliger was also a critical success) play the C major Fantasy of 1827 and the Violin Sonata in A of 1817, as well as the B minor Rondo of 1826, the only one of these works published in Schubert’s lifetime.

This insightful Schubert recording is a first documentation of the musical alliance between Widmann and Lonquich, which has been gathering momentum since they first came together to play Messiaen in Salzburg in 2008. The following year a solo recital by the pianist in Rome convinced Widmann that they should “collaborate on Schubert’s music for violin and piano”.

This is duo playing at a very high level, as Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich emphasizes in the liner notes: “Not once does Carolin Widmann and Alexander Lonquich’s intelligent and empathetic reading devolve into the trivial state of music for a domineering violin with piano accompaniment. Instead we are treated to a magically iridescent poem of changing colours, melodies and counterpoints.”

Munich-born Carolin Widmann has performed as soloist with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestra di Santa Cecilia, Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, RSO Vienna, BBC Symphony Orchestra London, London Philharmonic Orchestra and the China Philharmonic in Beijing, collaborating with conductors Riccardo Chailly, Sir Roger Norrington, Vladimir Jurowski, Emanuel Krivine, Peter Eötvös and Heinz Holliger.

Reviews

May 2012

Widmann and Lonquich are happy to take each piece on its own terms, to mainly winning effect.

May 2012

This is a fascinating Schubert recital...It is arguably in the more intense passages of these two works that these players are most compelling, though there's no shortage of virtuosity either, particularly in the finale of the Fantasie. As a duo there is much impress too, not least in their sensitive approach to rubato...a highly reactive, involving interpretation [of the Sonata] and a reminder of the riches that Schubert bequeathed to the violin.

June 2012

both violinist and pianist seem deeply committed, and they do the best they can to make the music come alive.

16th February 2012

The disc is worth hearing just for the way in which Widmann colours that opening [of the C minor Fantasie] alone, reducing her tone to the slenderest thread, minimising her vibrato and gradually breathing life into the work. It's extraordinary playing, full of imagination and profound intelligence, and just as powerfully effective in the smaller-scale works.

Schubert: Fantasy in C major, Rondo in B minor & Sonata in A major

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