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Dvorák: Music For Violin And Piano Vol 1 / Zhou, Battersby

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Composer
DVORAK
Artist
Zhou, Edmund, Qian, Battersby
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
Naxos
Released
Oct 01, 2001
Catalog #
8554413
UPC
636943441329

About

There's certainly a niche for a budget series devoted to Dvorák's oeuvre for violin and piano. The violinist here, Qian Zhou, at first might not seem a familiar name, but many will remember her participation in the TV documentary featuring the late Isaac Stern's visit to China, "From Mao to Mozart", which has been broadcast by networks throughout the world. The American pianist Edmund Battersby accompanies Zhou with praiseworthy skill and sensitivity. Their program begins with a honeyed and alluring account of the lovely F minor Romance. It's good for a change to hear it played with keyboard accompaniment rather than in the orchestral edition as a makeweight filler on discs with the A minor concerto.


The Sonata in F has been surprisingly neglected on CD, making this impressive reading doubly welcome. But the two Supraphon recordings by Josef Suk are in a class apart in many ways, for Suk has one of the most personal, distinctive, and instantly recognizable tones around, and he plays this music with forceful insight and complete lack of self-aggrandizing rhetoric. Zhou and Battersby play with tremendous fire and energy (try them in the sizzling finale of Op. 57 for example), and also get plenty of punch and drama where it's needed, as in the big development section of the first movement of the F major sonata. But I wonder if anyone ever played the Four Romantic Pieces more bewitchingly than Itzhak Perlman and Samuel Sanders on their EMI recording, which also includes the Sonatina in G Op. 100. In both works, Perlman's masterful technique and matchless skill in vocalizing and inflecting his sound lends something special to his performances. Zhou hasn't the same skills--at least not yet--but plays with fine technical command and considerable feel for the music. Hopefully, these artists can retain such a consistently high level of musicianship in the next volume of this continuing cycle.
--Michael Jameson, ClassicsToday.com

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 Romance in F Minor, Op. 11 10:39
    Track
    1
    Title
    Romance in F Minor, Op. 11
    Duration
    10:39
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Zhou Qian, Edmund Battersby
  2. 2 I. Allegro, ma non troppo 11:11
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. Allegro, ma non troppo
    Duration
    11:11
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Zhou Qian, Edmund Battersby
  3. 3 II. Poco sostenuto 05:37
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. Poco sostenuto
    Duration
    05:37
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Zhou Qian, Edmund Battersby
  4. 4 III. Allegro molto 05:20
    Track
    4
    Title
    III. Allegro molto
    Duration
    05:20
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Zhou Qian, Edmund Battersby
  5. 5 I. Allegro moderato 02:50
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Zhou Qian, Edmund Battersby
  6. 6 II. Allegro maestoso 02:39
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Allegro maestoso
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Zhou Qian, Edmund Battersby
  7. 7 III. Allegro appassionato 02:21
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Allegro appassionato
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Zhou Qian, Edmund Battersby
  8. 8 IV. Larghetto 05:51
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Larghetto
    Duration
    05:51
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Zhou Qian, Edmund Battersby
  9. 9 I. Allegro risoluto 05:43
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Allegro risoluto
    Duration
    05:43
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Zhou Qian, Edmund Battersby
  10. 10 II. Larghetto 04:31
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Larghetto
    Duration
    04:31
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Zhou Qian, Edmund Battersby
  11. 11 III. Scherzo: Molto vivace 02:54
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Scherzo: Molto vivace
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Zhou Qian, Edmund Battersby
  12. 12 IV. Allegro 05:42
    Track
    12
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    05:42
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Zhou Qian, Edmund Battersby