French Violin Sonatas

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Label
Gramola Records
Release Date
March 7, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Gabriel Faure, Guillaume Lekeu, Olivier Messiaen, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel
    • PERFORMER
      Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 07, 2025
    • UPC
      9003643993365
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GRAM99336
    • LABEL
      Gramola Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Violin
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro molto

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    2. II. Andante

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    3. III. Allegro vivo

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    4. IV. Allegro quasi presto

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    5. I. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    6. II. Andante

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    7. III. Final: Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    8. Romance in B-Flat Major, Op. 28

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    9. Andante in B-Flat Major, Op. 75

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    10. Sicilienne, Op. 78

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    11. Berceuse, Op. 16 (version for violin and piano)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    12. Theme and Variations

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    13. I. Très modéré - Vif et passionné

      Composer: Guillaume Lekeu

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    14. II. Très lent

      Composer: Guillaume Lekeu

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    15. III. Très animé

      Composer: Guillaume Lekeu

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    16. I. Allegretto

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    17. II. Blues: Moderato

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    18. III. Perpetuum mobile: Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    19. I. Allegro con fuoco

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    20. II. Intermezzo: Très lent et calme

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    21. III. Presto tragico

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    22. 2 Mélodies hébraïques: No. 1. Kaddish (arr. for violin and piano)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick

    23. Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick


On this double SACD, "Paths into Impressionism" are taken: starting with the two important Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Gabriel Faure, the first of which was already described as a masterpiece by Camille Saint-Saens, and four other short pieces by Faure, the great Salzburg violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger and the German pianist Michael Korstick, who is already very familiar with the French idiom through many of his own recordings, present further works from the French and Belgian repertoire in their usual masterly and spirited interpretations: the Sonata by the early deceased Guillaume Lekeu, which was commissioned and premiered by Eugene Ysa�e, and Maurice Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Piano (with a Blues as the middle movement), which is characterized by Ravel's view that violin and piano were fundamentally incompatible. The resulting manifold parallel developments and bitonal frictions create specific stimuli, though without showing even the slightest hint of the music falling apart. Ravel's "Kaddish" and the "Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faure", dedicated to his teacher, can also be heard, as well as the Sonata by Francis Poulenc, written in collaboration with Ginette Neveu and dedicated posthumously to Federico Garcia Lorca, and the fascinating work "Theme et variations" by Olivier Messiaen, which he dedicated to his first wife, a violinist, and which still contains many impressionistic elements.