Juon: Chamber Music for Viola / Vendryes, Pikayzen, David

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
June 3, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Paul Juon
    • PERFORMER
      Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen, William David
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 03, 2022
    • UPC
      5060113443892
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0389
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Moderato

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, William David

    2. II. Adagio assai e molto cantabile

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, William David

    3. III. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, William David

    4. I. Moderato assai

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, William David

    5. II. Adagio

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, William David

    6. III. Tempo primo

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, William David

    7. Romance, Op. 7a (version for viola and piano)

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, William David

    8. Book 3: No. 1. Prelude

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen, William David

    9. Book 3: No. 2. Chant d'amour

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen, William David

    10. Book 4: No. 3a. Intermezzo I

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen, William David

    11. Book 4: No. 3b. Intermezzo II

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen, William David

    12. Book 4: No. 3c. Intermezzo III

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen, William David

    13. Book 4: No. 4. Melancolie

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen, William David

    14. Book 4: No. 5. Danse grotesque

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen, William David

    15. I. Reverie: Molto adagio

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen, William David

    16. II. Humoreske: Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen, William David

    17. III. Élégie: Andante cantabile

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen, William David

    18. IV. Danse fantastique: Quasi valse lente

      Composer: Paul Juon

      Performer: Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen, William David


Paul Juon was born in Moscow, of Swiss parents, in 1872, studying there with Arensky and Taneyev; Rachmaninov, a fellow student, dubbed him ‘the Russian Brahms’. At the Hochschule der Musik in Berlin, Woldemar Bargiel, Clara Schumann’s half-brother, was his main teacher before Juon himself became a respected member of the staff. There are indeed echoes of Brahms in Juon’s early music but there is also a fondness for Russian folksong and a mastery of counterpoint, which all feed into his urgent, late-Romantic lyricism.

REVIEW

Paul Juon...studied with Woldemar Bargiel in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik. These influences developed him into a hothouse for late-Romantic lyricism and, on this showing, a skilled purveyor of channelled sentimentality.

The sound here is right upfront to the listener...The musicians play right to your heart.

Of the two tightly-timed viola sonatas, the D major, Op. 15 work is from the turn of the 19th and twentieth centuries. It overflows with torrential Brahmsian high romance, rather in the style of the Brahms Double Concerto. There’s no question of a temperate or distanced approach here and the musicians are at one with that mind-set; they constantly ‘push’ the mood and the tempo to intensify rather than in impatience with it. Listen to them in the finale. The Second Viola Sonata Op. 82a is from 1924. Its Moderato assai is a shade cooler but soulful and does not disappoint. On this disc it is the viola sonatas, with their robust and memorable themes and treatment, that will have the listener sitting bolt-upright.

--MusicWeb International (Rob Barnett)