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Saint-Saëns: Sonatas for Violin & Piano / Zilliacus, Hadland
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Saint-Saëns: Sonatas for Violin & Piano / Zilliacus, Hadland

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Composer
Camille Saint-Saens
Artist
Cecilia Zilliacus, Christian Ihle Hadland, Stephen Fitzpatrick
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Feb 03, 2023
Catalog #
BIS-2489
UPC
7318599924892

About

Saint-Saëns's chamber music broke new ground in France at a time when public taste tended to favour opera and opéra-comique. His first Sonata for violin and piano, one of the earliest composed in France, is a masterpiece of boundless beauty. Its emotional impact and its highly poetic content are served by the composer’s perfect mastery of formal architecture. It has also been proposed as the model for the ‘Vinteuil Sonata’ which runs through Marcel Proust's novel cycle ‘In Search of Lost Time’. The second Sonata, composed in Egypt, is very different from its predecessor: more serious, classical, and intimate. While the writing is more melodic, the composer prophesied that the sonata would not be understood “until the eighth hearing”. These two masterpieces are complemented by the Fantaisie for violin and harp, a virtuoso work in which the use of the harp rather than the piano produced a delicate, refined, even magical sound reminiscent at times of Fauré and Debussy, and by the charming Berceuse, one of Saint-Saëns’ best-known miniatures. Originally for violin and piano, it is performed here in an arrangement for violin and harp that, again, emphasizes the subtleties of Saint-Saëns’ writing.

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro agitato - 07:04
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro agitato -
    Duration
    07:04
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Cecilia Zilliacus, Christian Ihle Hadland
  2. 2 I. Adagio 05:47
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. Adagio
    Duration
    05:47
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Cecilia Zilliacus, Christian Ihle Hadland
  3. 3 II. Allegretto moderato - 04:01
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. Allegretto moderato -
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Cecilia Zilliacus, Christian Ihle Hadland
  4. 4 II. Allegro molto 06:12
    Track
    4
    Title
    II. Allegro molto
    Duration
    06:12
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Cecilia Zilliacus, Christian Ihle Hadland
  5. 5 I. Poco allegro più tosto moderato 07:30
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Poco allegro più tosto moderato
    Duration
    07:30
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Cecilia Zilliacus, Christian Ihle Hadland
  6. 6 II. Scherzo - Vivace 03:57
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Scherzo - Vivace
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Cecilia Zilliacus, Christian Ihle Hadland
  7. 7 III. Andante 06:06
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Andante
    Duration
    06:06
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Cecilia Zilliacus, Christian Ihle Hadland
  8. 8 IV. Allegro grazioso, non presto 04:59
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Allegro grazioso, non presto
    Duration
    04:59
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Cecilia Zilliacus, Christian Ihle Hadland
  9. 9 Fantaisie in A Major, Op. 124 14:29
    Track
    9
    Title
    Fantaisie in A Major, Op. 124
    Duration
    14:29
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Cecilia Zilliacus, Stephen Fitzpatrick
  10. 10 Berceuse in B-Flat Major, Op. 38 (arr. S. Fitzpatrick for violin and harp) 04:55
    Track
    10
    Title
    Berceuse in B-Flat Major, Op. 38 (arr. S. Fitzpatrick for violin and harp)
    Duration
    04:55
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Cecilia Zilliacus, Stephen Fitzpatrick