1917: Works for Violin and Piano

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Waley-Cohen is much more than professional. The Elgar and Debussy in particular give plenty of evidence that she and her equally impressive partner, Huw Watkins, have thought hard about these... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Apr 2014
Catalogue No: SIGCD376
Label: Signum
Length: 85 minutes

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Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor

Work length14:31

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Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins

I. Allegro vivo

Track length5:11

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II. Intermede: Fantastique et leger

Track length4:45

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III. Finale: Tres anime

Track length4:35

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Respighi: Violin Sonata in B minor

Work length27:07

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Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins

I. Moderato

Track length9:57

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II. Andante espressivo

Track length8:59

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III. Passacaglia: Allegro moderato ma energico

Track length8:11

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Sibelius: Five Pieces, Op. 81

Work length16:46

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Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins

I. Mazurka

Track length2:43

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II. Rondino – allegretto grazioso

Track length2:17

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III. Valse

Track length3:45

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IV. Aubade

Track length3:11

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V. Menuetto

Track length4:50

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Elgar: Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82

Work length26:38

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Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins

I. Allegro: risoluto

Track length9:00

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II. Romance

Track length8:16

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III. Allegro non troppo

Track length9:22

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Rising-star violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen is joined by the eminent pianist-composer Huw Watkins in a diverse programme of works that were all influenced in different ways by the era in which they were composed. The works were concieved at four very different points in the composer’s lives: Debussy, at the end of his life; Respighi in the first flush of fame; Elgar, although not old, enjoying his last creative period; and Sibelius in his prime, composing prolifically.

These four contrasting works were all composed as the Great War drew to a close, but none of them specifically attempts to conjure up images of the conflict, nor act as any kind of programmatic memorial to its victims. Rather, these works are all conceived as absolute music, albeit, in the case of the Elgar and Debussy sonatas, imbued with a melancholy regret that may have been a reflection of those tragic four years.

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August 2014

Waley-Cohen is much more than professional. The Elgar and Debussy in particular give plenty of evidence that she and her equally impressive partner, Huw Watkins, have thought hard about these works...And the recordings serve both players - individually and as a duo - very well.

12th June 2014

Respighi's expansive sonata [is] full of rhapsodic violin lines and grandly rhetorical piano writing. Waley-Cohen and Watkins clearly relish all that, but they seem more at home in the Debussy and Elgar works...The former is given a wonderfully subtle, introspective and touching performance; the latter is by turns typically bluff and elegiac.

1917: Works for Violin and Piano

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