Grieg: Violin Sonatas / Morano, Canino
Details
- Composer
- Edvard Hagerup Grieg
- Artist
- Germana Porcu Morano, Bruno Canino
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Brilliant Classics
- Released
- Jan 05, 2024
- Catalog #
- BRI96949
- UPC
- 5028421969497
About
A beloved trio of Romantic violin sonatas in the passionate and assured hands of an exciting Italian violinist near the start of her career: an auspicious debut on Brilliant Classics.
Germana Porcu Morano has produced a gripping account of the three violin sonatas by Edvard Grieg in partnership with one of the great Italian musicians of his generation, Bruno Canino. The pianist brings decades of experience to bear on parts which, especially in the testing Third Sonata, demand a virtuosity beyond anything in the Lyric Pieces. Meanwhile Porcu Morano’s urgently communicative musicianship is well suited to works which exemplify the fascinating tension between Grieg’s musical nationalism and his cosmopolitan outlook as a composer with colleagues and friends across Europe.
There are Norwegian elements to all three sonatas – Grieg’s teacher, Niels W Gade, even pronounced his verdict on the Second as ‘too Norwegian’ – but in counterbalance to the folk-like melodies which especially bring a rustic character to both slow movements and finales, there is a breadth of form and broad current of German romanticism to be appreciated in the first movements. Grieg himself took particular pride in the Third, a work of full maturity written in 1886 unlike the student efforts of the first two sonatas, and Porcu Morano’s performance captures the composer’s sense of its ‘broader horizons’.
Winner of the 30th edition of Michelangelo Abbado violin competition held in Milan in 2009, Germana Porcu Morano studied in Bergamo, and has gone on to win several other national and international prizes. She has performed as a soloist and in chamber ensembles across Europe and in China. She is a member of the Paganini String Quartet, with plans afoot to record the complete quartets by Paganini.
Tracklist 9 tracks
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1 I. Allegro con brio 09:40
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Allegro con brio
- Duration
- 09:40
- Composer
- Edvard Grieg
- Performer
- Germana Porcu Morano, Bruno Canino
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2 II. Allegretto quasi andantino 05:09
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Allegretto quasi andantino
- Duration
- 05:09
- Composer
- Edvard Grieg
- Performer
- Germana Porcu Morano, Bruno Canino
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3 III. Allegro molto vivace 10:05
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Allegro molto vivace
- Duration
- 10:05
- Composer
- Edvard Grieg
- Performer
- Germana Porcu Morano, Bruno Canino
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4 I. Lento doloroso - Allegro vivace 09:31
- Track
- 4
- Title
- I. Lento doloroso - Allegro vivace
- Duration
- 09:31
- Composer
- Edvard Grieg
- Performer
- Germana Porcu Morano, Bruno Canino
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5 II. Allegretto tranquillo 06:13
- Track
- 5
- Title
- II. Allegretto tranquillo
- Duration
- 06:13
- Composer
- Edvard Grieg
- Performer
- Germana Porcu Morano, Bruno Canino
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6 III. Allegro animato 05:31
- Track
- 6
- Title
- III. Allegro animato
- Duration
- 05:31
- Composer
- Edvard Grieg
- Performer
- Germana Porcu Morano, Bruno Canino
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7 I. Allegro molto ed appassionato 09:13
- Track
- 7
- Title
- I. Allegro molto ed appassionato
- Duration
- 09:13
- Composer
- Edvard Grieg
- Performer
- Germana Porcu Morano, Bruno Canino
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8 II. Allegretto espressivo alla romanza 06:24
- Track
- 8
- Title
- II. Allegretto espressivo alla romanza
- Duration
- 06:24
- Composer
- Edvard Grieg
- Performer
- Germana Porcu Morano, Bruno Canino
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9 III. Allegro animato 07:39
- Track
- 9
- Title
- III. Allegro animato
- Duration
- 07:39
- Composer
- Edvard Grieg
- Performer
- Germana Porcu Morano, Bruno Canino