Elgar & Vaughan Williams: Works for Violin & Piano

Rare and well-known repertoire with a twist combine in an irresistible release. — The Strad, October 2020

Release Date: 31st Jul 2020
Catalogue No: CHAN20156
Label: Chandos
Length: 66 minutes

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Elgar: Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82

Work length25:46

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Jennifer Pike (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)

I. Allegro

Track length9:04

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$2.40

II. Romance. Andante

Track length7:28

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III. Allegro non troppo

Track length9:14

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Vaughan Williams: Violin Sonata in A minor

Work length26:57

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Jennifer Pike (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)

I. Fantasia. Allegro giusto

Track length9:09

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II. Scherzo. Allegro furioso ma non troppo

Track length6:11

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III. Tema con variazioni

Track length11:37

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Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (Arr. for Violin & Piano)

Work length14:11

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Jennifer Pike (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)

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Following the success of her last album, The Polish Violin , Jennifer Pike now turns to a programme of English music that represents an essential part of her musical make-up. It was the music of Elgar that first drew her to the violin, and The Lark Ascending has featured in her programming - in many versions – throughout her career. Here we have the original version for Violin and Piano from 1914, much less frequently played than the ‘standard’ orchestral version, but fascinating for the new light it shines on such a well-known piece. Writing it against the backdrop of the First World War, Vaughan Williams took both inspiration and the title from a poem by George Meredith. Although his first sketches for a Violin Sonata date from 1887, Elgar’s Violin Sonata is one of the four late masterpieces that Elgar composed in 1918 – 19, at Brinkwells in Sussex in his final creative flush. As with The Lark, this work was composed under the shadow of the Great War. Like Elgar, Vaughan Williams wrote his only Violin Sonata towards the end of his life. Representing a culmination of the development of his compositional style, he weaves fantasy and pastoralism into the strictures of sonata form. Jennifer Pike is joined for this album by one of her regular musical partners, the pianist Martin Roscoe.

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