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French Music For Violin & Cello / E Turovsky, Y Turovsky

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Details

Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
Yuli, Eleonora, Turovsky, Turovsky
Format
CD
Label
Chandos
Released
Dec 03, 2017
Catalog #
CHAN 8358
UPC
095115835821

About

The Honegger, Martinu and Rivier pieces are not currently listed in the Gramophone Classical Catalogue, but these fine performances do far more than merely fill gaps. Ravel's Sonata, dating from 1920-22, was an important piece in its composer's development, as he himself acknowledged, and the probable inspiration of the other works here. In turn, Ravel was acquainted with Kodaly's Duo, Op. 7 of 1914, which the Turovskys have already recorded (Chandos ABRD1102, 11/84). The Sonata must have come as a shock after the luxuriance of La valse (1919-20), but its scalingdown of resources led to no loss of musical intensity, and although the writing does not, at least now, sound outre, it is extremely inventive in instrumental terms and the Turovskys make an aptly zestful response.

Afterwards, Rivier's 1937 Sonatina sounds modest indeed, yet its three movements are melodious, graceful and effectively written, without conveying anything of the sense of pushing the boundaries outwards, musically and technically, which makes the Ravel so exhilarating. Honegger's and Martinu's pieces are weightier than Rivier's and the former, dating from 1932, has a quite sombre central Andante, plus an extremely diverse finale. More consistent, and just as capably written, is Martinu's two-movement Duo of 1927. And again, there are strong contrasts, the first movement being thoughtful, the last one effervescent.

The Turovsky's performances are thoughtful, too, and resonantly virtuosic when required, nowhere more so than in Martinu's cadenza. Their recital plays for 63 minutes, and while the recording is thoroughly lifelike on LP it seems to me that on CD the separation of the two instruments is more explicit and the music is projected rather more sharply. Ravel's Sonata exemplifies these points especially well.

-- Gramophone [7/1985]

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro (Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy: No. 8) 06:28
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro (Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy: No. 8)
    Duration
    06:28
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Eleonora Turovsky, Yuli Turovsky
  2. 2 II. Tres vif 03:18
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Tres vif
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Eleonora Turovsky, Yuli Turovsky
  3. 3 III. Lent 05:24
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Lent
    Duration
    05:24
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Eleonora Turovsky, Yuli Turovsky
  4. 4 IV. Vif, avec entrain 06:14
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Vif, avec entrain
    Duration
    06:14
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Eleonora Turovsky, Yuli Turovsky
  5. 5 I. Molto moderato con grazia 03:57
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Molto moderato con grazia
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Jean Rivier
    Performer
    Eleonora Turovsky, Yuli Turovsky
  6. 6 II. Andantino en canon - III. Vivace e leggiero 06:05
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Andantino en canon - III. Vivace e leggiero
    Duration
    06:05
    Composer
    Jean Rivier
    Performer
    Eleonora Turovsky, Yuli Turovsky
  7. 7 I. Allegro 05:52
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    05:52
    Composer
    Arthur Honegger
    Performer
    Eleonora Turovsky, Yuli Turovsky
  8. 8 II. Andante 06:17
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    06:17
    Composer
    Arthur Honegger
    Performer
    Eleonora Turovsky, Yuli Turovsky
  9. 9 III. Allegro 05:20
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    05:20
    Composer
    Arthur Honegger
    Performer
    Eleonora Turovsky, Yuli Turovsky
  10. 10 I. Preludium: Andante moderato 04:45
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Preludium: Andante moderato
    Duration
    04:45
    Composer
    Bohuslav Martinů
    Performer
    Eleonora Turovsky, Yuli Turovsky
  11. 11 II. Rondo: Allegro con brio 08:14
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Rondo: Allegro con brio
    Duration
    08:14
    Composer
    Bohuslav Martinů
    Performer
    Eleonora Turovsky, Yuli Turovsky