Amy Beach & John Corigliano: Violin Sonatas
Usha Kapoor (violin), Edward Leung (piano)
In very different ways, both works combine taut succinctness with emotional expansiveness and a striking capacity for invention...With full-bodied, Brahmsian writing for both instruments, it...
Amy Beach & John Corigliano: Violin Sonatas
Usha Kapoor (violin), Edward Leung (piano)
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In very different ways, both works combine taut succinctness with emotional expansiveness and a striking capacity for invention...With full-bodied, Brahmsian writing for both instruments, it...
About
Winners of the First Prize at the inaugural Birmingham International Piano Chamber Music Competition, violinist Usha Kapoor and pianist Edward Leung present an album of violin sonatas by American composers Amy Beach and John Corigliano.
The album features Beach's large-scale chamber work of 1896, the Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 34, and her earlier Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23 from 1893, together with Corigliano's Sonata for Violin and Piano. Completed in 1963, this work was originally called 'Duo' and is very much intended for two equal musical partners.
Contents and tracklist
- Usha Kapoor (violin), Edward Leung (piano)
- Usha Kapoor (violin), Edward Leung (piano)
- Usha Kapoor (violin), Edward Leung (piano)
Awards and reviews
March 2024
In very different ways, both works combine taut succinctness with emotional expansiveness and a striking capacity for invention...With full-bodied, Brahmsian writing for both instruments, it ’s tempting to imagine Beach’s Sonata (1896) as a champing at the creative bit. However, Usha Kapoor and Edward Leung bring melodic sweetness rather than tempestuous drama to the fore.
