Goedicke: Music for Violin & Piano

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[Sonata No. 1] This is music gorgeous beyond words to describe it. One can only wonder how it can be that we’ve never heard it before, yet these are first-ever recordings of all three works on... — Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2022 More…

Release Date: 10th Dec 2021
Catalogue No: 95973
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 63 minutes

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Goedicke: Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 10

Work length18:31

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Francesco Parrino, Michele Pentrella

I. Allegro

Track length7:32

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II. Andante sostenuto ma non troppo

Track length4:40

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III. Finale. Allegro molto e con brio

Track length6:19

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Goedicke: Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 83

Work length25:20

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Francesco Parrino, Michele Pentrella

I. Allegro con brio

Track length5:33

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II. Largo

Track length9:36

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III. Scherzo. Allegro animato

Track length4:45

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IV. Finale. Allegro non troppo

Track length5:26

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Goedicke: 10 Pieces, Op. 80

Work length19:30

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Francesco Parrino, Michele Pentrella

No. 1, Gavotte

Track length2:07

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No. 2, Tale

Track length1:21

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No. 3, March

Track length1:10

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No. 4, Sketch

Track length1:29

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No. 5, Aria

Track length2:27

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No. 6, Waltz

Track length3:04

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No. 7, Scherzo

Track length1:51

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No. 8, In Meditation

Track length2:24

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No. 9, Etude

Track length1:28

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No. 10, Etude

Track length2:09

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Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke (1877-1957) was a Russian composer and pianist. At the Moscow Conservatory he proved himself as a piano virtuoso, studying with Vasily Safonov, Anatolij Galli and Paul Pabst, while Anton Arensky was his most important composition teacher. Goedicke won the Anton Rubinstein Competition in 1900. Despite his lack of traditional guidance, his compositional efforts were rewarded when he won the Rubinstein Prize for Composition at the young age of 23. Later he became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory himself, teaching, piano, organ and chamber music. He was Nikolai Medtner's first cousin.

The Violin Sonata in A major No. 1 Op. 10, composed in 1899, bears the nickname "Vesennjaja" ("spring"), a clear reference to Rachmaninov's "Spring Waters", the Song composed in 1896 which is quoted at the beginning of the first movement of the Sonata and at the end of the last one, so as to confer cyclical unity. Goedicke's deep admiration for his slightly older colleague is testified by a way of writing in which he recalls not only the fact that his father had taken him to hear all the concerts of that young prodigy but also that, in 1903, "the performance of my symphony [the First, Op.15] was helped by Sergei Vasilevich, who patronised it and gave me the opportunity to conduct it myself".’

The second Violin Sonata was written between 1948 and 1953, in “formalist Soviet” style, with reminiscences from Haydn to Kabalevsky.

Played by Francesco Parrino (violin) and Michele Pentrella (piano). Parrino already recorded the complete violin sonatas by Leo Ornstein for Brilliant Classics, to great critical acclaim, “undeniable technical finesse and emotional commitment… ”(Gramophone).

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Sep/Oct 2022

[Sonata No. 1] This is music gorgeous beyond words to describe it. One can only wonder how it can be that we’ve never heard it before, yet these are first-ever recordings of all three works on this disc. [Parrino] the mostly slender, tender tone he draws from his circa 1800, modernized-sounding Gagliano violin strikes me as an ideal fit for these Goedicke works.

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