Enescu, Ravel & Skalkottas: Violin Sonatas

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Release Date: 28th Jul 2017
Catalogue No: AVI8553382
Label: Avi Music
Length: 77 minutes

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George Ensecu: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Minor No. 3, Op. 25

Work length27:43

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Jonian Kadesha, Nicholas Rimmer

I. Modearto malinconico

Track length9:49

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II. Andante sostenuto e misterioso

Track length9:28

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III. Allegro con brio, ma non troppo mosso

Track length8:26

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Ravel: Violin Sonata in G major

Work length17:25

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Jonian Kadesha, Nicholas Rimmer

I. Allegretto

Track length8:01

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II. Blues. Moderato

Track length5:26

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III. Perpetuum mobile. Allegro

Track length3:58

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Skalkottas: Little Suites

Work length23:04

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Jonian Kadesha, Nicholas Rimmer

Little Suite No. 1, AK 51: No. 1 Dance - Prelude. Allegro marcato e ben ritmato

Track length3:21

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Little Suite No. 1, AK 51: No. 2 Folk Song. Andante moderato

Track length3:28

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Little Suite No. 1, AK 51: No. 3 Like a peasant dance. Allegro vivo

Track length4:02

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Little Suite No. 2, AK 52: No. 1 Poco lento

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Little Suite No. 2, AK 52: No. 2 Andante

Track length6:10

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Little Suite No. 2, AK 52: No. 3 Allegro vivace

Track length2:22

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Ravel: Tzigane

Work length9:46

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Jonian Kadesha, Nicholas Rimmer

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It would be wrong to classify Nikos Skalkottas as a National Romantic composer. However, only certain works such as the Greek Dances for orchestra or the Two Little Suites for violin and piano have kept his name from falling into oblivion. The Two Little Suites reflect a shift in his last creative years: while maintaining typically strict structural control, Skalkottas was nevertheless evolving toward a less complex style......

George Enescu was Romania’s true musical ambassador. He belonged to the first generation of composers born in the relatively young Kingdom of Romania, but left his native land as a seven-year-old child prodigy to study in Vienna, then in Paris: from then on, he led a cosmopolitan life. He would soon become a world-famed celebrity: first as a violinist, soon also as a composer, pianist and conductor. Yehudi Menuhin, his most renowned pupil, referred to Enescu as the most extraordinary human being he ever encountered. Several recordings of Enescu playing the violin have been preserved, including his own Third Violin Sonata with Dinu Lipatti, his godchild, as a sensitive accompanist on the piano......

Begun before the Tzigane but only completed thereafter, the Violin Sonata in G Major was dedicated by Ravel to the above-mentioned Hélène Jourdan-Morhange, a violinist who was both his friend and advisor. In the meantime she had contracted rheumatism in her fingers and could no longer play the sonata in public. None other than George Enescu stepped in to ensure the work’s resounding success in its world première with Ravel at the piano. (Excerpts from the line notes by Johannes Jansen)

Enescu, Ravel & Skalkottas: Violin Sonatas

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