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Kornauth & Fuchs: Works for Viola and Piano / Litton Duo
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Kornauth & Fuchs: Works for Viola and Piano / Litton Duo

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Composer
FUCHS KORNAUTH
Artist
K. Litton, A. Litton
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Nov 05, 2021
Catalog #
BIS-2574
UPC
7318599925745

About

In the spring of 2020, the Covid pandemic caused turmoil in the concert diaries of most musicians, including the conductor Andrew Litton and his wife Katharina Kang Litton, principal violist of New York City Ballet. To find an outlet for their musical expression they began to explore the repertoire for viola and piano together. Having played the sonatas by Brahms they came across the music by two other Viennese composers, Brahms’ near-contemporary Robert Fuchs and his student Egon Kornauth. Fuchs – who the less-than-effusive Brahms called ‘a splendid musician’ – had a long and distinguished career at the Vienna Conservatory where his other students included such composers as Mahler, Wolf, Sibelius, Zemlinsky and Korngold. That the sonatas recorded here were composed around the same time as Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet can be hard to believe – as is the fact that Fuchs’s Phantasiestücke (composed in his 80th and final year) was contemporary with Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 1. But if they are not in any way pioneering, all three works are beautifully achieved: formally both strong and flexible, with a subtle, deeply-felt emotional coloring of their own. The Litton Duo close the recital with a piece that has a personal significance for the two – an arrangement of the Korean folk song Arirang which they received as a wedding present from Stephen Hough.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 I. Fest und bestimmt 08:43
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Fest und bestimmt
    Duration
    08:43
    Composer
    Egon Kornauth
    Performer
    Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton
  2. 2 II. Langsam, sehr ausdrucksvoll 08:52
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Langsam, sehr ausdrucksvoll
    Duration
    08:52
    Composer
    Egon Kornauth
    Performer
    Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton
  3. 3 III. Wild und stürmisch 09:00
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Wild und stürmisch
    Duration
    09:00
    Composer
    Egon Kornauth
    Performer
    Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton
  4. 4 No. 1. Ländler Tempo 04:10
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 1. Ländler Tempo
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Robert Fuchs
    Performer
    Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton
  5. 5 No. 2. Ruhig und ausdrucksvoll 04:22
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 2. Ruhig und ausdrucksvoll
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Robert Fuchs
    Performer
    Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton
  6. 6 No. 3. Leicht bewegt 03:51
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 3. Leicht bewegt
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Robert Fuchs
    Performer
    Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton
  7. 7 No. 4. Andante sostenuto con espressione 04:05
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 4. Andante sostenuto con espressione
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Robert Fuchs
    Performer
    Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton
  8. 8 No. 5. Mäßig bewegt 03:16
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 5. Mäßig bewegt
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Robert Fuchs
    Performer
    Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton
  9. 9 No. 6. Allegretto con delicatezza 04:35
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 6. Allegretto con delicatezza
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Robert Fuchs
    Performer
    Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton
  10. 10 I. Allegro moderato, ma passionato 08:43
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato, ma passionato
    Duration
    08:43
    Composer
    Robert Fuchs
    Performer
    Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton
  11. 11 II. Andante grazioso 06:38
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Andante grazioso
    Duration
    06:38
    Composer
    Robert Fuchs
    Performer
    Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton
  12. 12 III. Allegro vivace 05:45
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Allegro vivace
    Duration
    05:45
    Composer
    Robert Fuchs
    Performer
    Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton
  13. 13 Arirang (arr. S. Hough for viola and piano) 02:21
    Track
    13
    Title
    Arirang (arr. S. Hough for viola and piano)
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Traditional
    Performer
    Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton