Heitor Villa-Lobos: Complete Violin Sonatas
Emmanuele Baldini (violin), Pablo Rossi (piano)
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, Chamber Choice
Baldini produces an alluring tone that taps into the natural resonances of his instrument, and phrases with a natural instinct for cantabile espressivo. His sensitive and responsive partner,...
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Complete Violin Sonatas
Emmanuele Baldini (violin), Pablo Rossi (piano)
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, Chamber Choice
Baldini produces an alluring tone that taps into the natural resonances of his instrument, and phrases with a natural instinct for cantabile espressivo. His sensitive and responsive partner,...
About
Heitor Villa-Lobos’s three violin sonatas date from a key period in his career: the moment at which he matured as a composer, established his personal idiom and achieved his first professional triumphs. Each sonata shares some influence from French late Romanticism or Impressionism, as well as revealing Villa-Lobos’s skill as a string player. The First Violin Sonata’s subtitle of Désespérance (‘Despair’) suits its melancholy lyricism, while the ‘infinite abundance of musical ideas’ in the Second Violin Sonata is characterised by a wide range of emotions. The sophisticated Third Violin Sonata is steeped in the influence of Debussy, but also anticipates Villa-Lobos’s new directions in the 1920s.
Contents and tracklist
- Emmanuele Baldini (violin), Pablo Rossi (piano)
- Emmanuele Baldini (violin), Pablo Rossi (piano)
- Emmanuele Baldini (violin), Pablo Rossi (piano)
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineOctober 2021Chamber Choice
October 2021
Baldini produces an alluring tone that taps into the natural resonances of his instrument, and phrases with a natural instinct for cantabile espressivo. His sensitive and responsive partner, Pablo Rossi, who helps create the indelible impression that this elusive yet deeply rewarding music is among the finest ever written for violin and piano.
Jan/Feb 2022
Pablo Rossi’s piano playing is so nuanced and expressive, and Emmanuele Baldini’s violin so poised, centered in tone, and totally devoid of intonational issues, that together they make beautiful music.
25th July 2021
This useful survey of a compact and appealing sub-oeuvre comprises the three sonatas the Brazilian composer produced between 1912 and 1920...The performances are invigorating.
