Bartók: Complete Works for Violin and Piano
Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) & Péter Nagy (piano)
Beginning with the First Rhapsody is a cunning move: not only does it demonstrate Tanja Becker-Bender’s engagement with the folk style of string playing, but also it eases the ear in gently...
Bartók: Complete Works for Violin and Piano
Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) & Péter Nagy (piano)
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Beginning with the First Rhapsody is a cunning move: not only does it demonstrate Tanja Becker-Bender’s engagement with the folk style of string playing, but also it eases the ear in gently...
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Tanja Becker-Bender, one of Germany’s most distinguished violinists, already has a number of critically acclaimed CDs of absorbing repertoire to her credit. Her collaboration with the Hungarian pianist Péter Nagy over many years has borne musical fruits of remarkable quality, as this Bartók recording so impressively demonstrates.
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July 2016
Beginning with the First Rhapsody is a cunning move: not only does it demonstrate Tanja Becker-Bender’s engagement with the folk style of string playing, but also it eases the ear in gently to the more acerbic harmonies and sophisticated musical arguments of the First Violin Sonata. Here, she and pianist Peter Nagy characterise the free-flowing, rhapsodic substance of the opening movement with complete assurance, and her palette of tone colours is dazzling and well-chosen.
February 2016
Pianist Péter Nagy holds the high musical standard with a memorable performance of the Piano Sonata, so often a vehicle for percussive overkill but which in this context is full of differing grades of tone and colour, especially in the finale
