Dussek: Violin Sonatas, Volume 2

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Release Date: 24th Feb 2023
Catalogue No: 96588
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 71 minutes

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Dussek, J L: Violin Sonata in C Major, Op. 1, No. 3

Work length14:05

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Julia Huber, Miriam Altmann

I. Allegro spiritoso

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II. Rondo. Allegretto moderato assai

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Dussek, J L: Violin Sonata in C Major, Op. 28, No. 1

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Julia Huber, Miriam Altmann

I. Andantino

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II. Adagio

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Dussek, J L: Violin Sonata in F Major, Op. 28, No. 2

Work length2:40

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Julia Huber, Miriam Altmann

I. Larghetto con espressione

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II. Allegro

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Dussek, J L: Violin Sonata in B Major, Op. 28, No. 3

Work length4:58

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Julia Huber, Miriam Altmann

I. Allegro moderato

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II. Rondo. Allegretto moderato molto

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Dussek, J L: Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 28, No. 4

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Julia Huber, Miriam Altmann

I. Allegro vivace

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II. Allegretto grazioso

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Dussek, J L: Violin Sonata in G Minor, Op. 28, No. 5

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Julia Huber, Miriam Altmann

I. Lento con espressione

Track length2:45

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II. Allegro

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Dussek, J L: Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 5

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Julia Huber, Miriam Altmann

I. Larghetto maestoso

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II. Presto

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Dussek, J L: Violin Sonata in B Major, Op. 1, No. 1

Work length15:41

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Julia Huber, Miriam Altmann

I. Vivace

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II. Andantino grazioso con variazioni

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Dussek, J L: Violin Sonata in G Major, Op. 1, No. 2

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Julia Huber, Miriam Altmann

I. Allegro

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II. Rondo. Andante poco adagio

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Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) was a cosmopolitan piano virtuoso who studied with C.P.E. Bach, lived and performed in one European capital after another in a tumultuous progress across the continent, and wrote huge quantities of eclectic music which has largely been forgotten.

Dussek’s music for his own instrument may now be much better known than half a century ago – not least thanks to the first period-instrument edition of his piano sonatas, produced by Brilliant Classics – but he wrote almost 80 violin sonatas which also deserve revival as the product of a fluent and always inventive mind working on the cusp of eras we now identify as Classicism and Romanticism.

The three sonatas gathered here as Dussek’s Opus 1 were published around 1780. Each of them is cast in two movements: a lively Allegro in sonata form, followed by a Rondo or (in No.1) a set of variations, gentle and even meditative in character, in which Dussek’s originality shines through the occasional, recitative-like episodes.

The six sonatas of Op.28 belong to the genre of ‘accompanied piano sonatas’ in which the musical substance is conceived principally for the keyboard instrument, with an obbligato melody instrument (such as the violin or flute) adding or doubling a top line if convenient. By the time he wrote them in 1795, Dussek had been a celebrity of London musical life for six years, having fled revolutionary Paris in a hurry. The dedication to ‘Miss Shaw’ refers to one of the daughters of the composer Thomas Shaw, and one may imagine the father on the violin accompanying and encouraging his daughter on the piano in Dussek’s vivid evocations of rural life and the lively march of a tin-soldier regiment.

Dussek’s sonatas are played here in new recordings by the German duo of Julia Huber and Miriam Altmann in polished and historically informed performances, using an authentic 1780 fortepiano. Huber has worked with German period-instrument ensembles such as L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra, La Stagione Frankfurt and the Collegium Cartusianum in Cologne.

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