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Jadin: Sonatas for Piano with Violin
Brilliant Classics

Jadin: Sonatas for Piano with Violin

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Details

Composer
Hyacinthe Jadin
Artist
Marek Toporowski, Robert Bachara, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
May 10, 2024
Catalog #
BRI97065
UPC
5028421970653

About

According to Marek Toporowski, the French composer Hyacinthe Jadin (1776–1800) authored ‘the greatest masterpieces of the French literature for the fortepiano from the time of the Revolution.’ Despite dying in poverty from tuberculosis at the age of 25, Jadin accomplished much in his brief life, composing both orchestral and chamber music with a bias towards his own instrument, the piano. This includes concertos and the sonatas featured in this collection, which also offer an optional violin accompaniment. Although several published collections have not survived or been recovered, including a further 12 sonatas for the keyboard.

In a previous album on Brilliant Classics, Toporowski produced a definitive modern recording of Jadin’s Sonatas Opp. 4-6 (96958). In the present collection, he presents Opp. 1 and 3, along with Jadin’s trio of Op.1 string quartets in the composer’s own arrangement for piano and violin. Toporowski finds a pre-Romantic sensibility in this music, with tantalizing anticipations of Schubert, Weber, and even Mendelssohn in Jadin’s heightened language of expression, which ventures far beyond the conventional forms of his contemporaries.

An important point of reference for Jadin was nonetheless the music of Haydn. The Op.1 String Quartets, as played here in the composer’s transcription, are dedicated to Haydn and contain very obvious references to this composer’s style, particularly to his refined modulations. Jadin was also active in Paris while Jan Ladislav Dussek was living in the French capital. As a later co-creator of the London school of piano playing, Dussek seems also to have had a great influence on the young virtuoso. There are salient points of comparison between these sonatas, whether played solo on piano or with their optional violin part, and with the sonatas for the same forces written by Dussek and recently recorded for Brilliant Classics by Petra Somlai, Julia Huber, and Miriam Altmann.

Jadin’s music has never previously been documented in so comprehensive and stylish a manner as in this evolving series from Marek Toporowski, and the quartets receive their first recording in this arrangement, which will appeal to all collectors of Classical-era curios.

Tracklist 28 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 10:06
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    10:06
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  2. 2 II. Andantino un poco allegretto 05:31
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andantino un poco allegretto
    Duration
    05:31
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  3. 3 III. Menuet: Allegro 03:18
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Menuet: Allegro
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Prestp 05:27
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Prestp
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  5. 5 I. Allegro fieramente 09:55
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro fieramente
    Duration
    09:55
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  6. 6 II. Rondo: Allegretto non troppo 04:12
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Rondo: Allegretto non troppo
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  7. 7 I. Allegro poco agitato 05:31
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro poco agitato
    Duration
    05:31
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  8. 8 II. Adagio 06:28
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    06:28
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  9. 9 III. Menuet: Allegro 04:02
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Menuet: Allegro
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  10. 10 IV. Allegro non troppo 05:21
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Allegro non troppo
    Duration
    05:21
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  11. 11 I. Allegro moderato 07:32
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    07:32
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Robert Bachara
  12. 12 II. Allegro poco agitato 04:14
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Allegro poco agitato
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Robert Bachara
  13. 13 I. Allegro con molto 05:26
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Allegro con molto
    Duration
    05:26
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Robert Bachara
  14. 14 II. Finale: Allegro non troppo 05:01
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Finale: Allegro non troppo
    Duration
    05:01
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Robert Bachara
  15. 15 I. Allegro 07:28
    Track
    15
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    07:28
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Robert Bachara
  16. 16 II. Adagio 06:50
    Track
    16
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    06:50
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Robert Bachara
  17. 17 III. Allegro poco presto 04:03
    Track
    17
    Title
    III. Allegro poco presto
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Robert Bachara
  18. 18 I. Largo - Allegro non troppo 06:12
    Track
    18
    Title
    I. Largo - Allegro non troppo
    Duration
    06:12
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  19. 19 II. Adagio 05:33
    Track
    19
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    05:33
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  20. 20 III. Menuet - Trio 01:52
    Track
    20
    Title
    III. Menuet - Trio
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  21. 21 IV. Finale: Allegro 06:04
    Track
    21
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro
    Duration
    06:04
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  22. 22 I. Allegro 04:56
    Track
    22
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    04:56
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  23. 23 II. Menuet - Trio 02:51
    Track
    23
    Title
    II. Menuet - Trio
    Duration
    02:51
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  24. 24 III. Pastoral: Andante 04:58
    Track
    24
    Title
    III. Pastoral: Andante
    Duration
    04:58
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  25. 25 IV. Finale: Presto 05:40
    Track
    25
    Title
    IV. Finale: Presto
    Duration
    05:40
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  26. 26 I. Allegro moderato 06:23
    Track
    26
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    06:23
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  27. 27 II. Menuet 02:24
    Track
    27
    Title
    II. Menuet
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz
  28. 28 III. Polonaise 04:46
    Track
    28
    Title
    III. Polonaise
    Duration
    04:46
    Composer
    Hyacinthe Jadin
    Performer
    Marek Toporowski, Zofia Wojniakiewicz