Visnoviz: Violin Sonata, Klavierstucke

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
July 17, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Eugenio Visnoviz
    • PERFORMER
      Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 17, 2026
    • UPC
      5063758700948
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI70094
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    2. II. Lento assai

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    3. III. Moderato assai

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    4. IV. Rondò - Allegro

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    5. Ia.Tranquillo

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    6. Ib. Allegretto

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    7. II. Tempo di valzer lento

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    8. IIIa. Mesto

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    9. IIIb. (Nessuna Indicazione)

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    10. IV. Moderato mosso

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    11. V. Calmo

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    12. VI. Moderato mosso

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    13. VII. Calmo

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    14. VIII. Tempo di mazurka

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    15. IXa. Moderato mosso

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    16. IXb. Calmo

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    17. IXc. Lento

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    18. Xa. Leggermente Mosso

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    19. Xb. Sostenuto

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin

    20. Xc. Allegretto

      Composer: Eugenio Visnoviz

      Performer: Valentina Danelon, Cristina Santin


Eugenio Visnoviz (1906-1931) belongs to the poignant group of early twentieth-century composers whose promise was cut short by an untimely death. Born in Italy at a moment of intense cultural transformation, Visnoviz grew up in an environment shaped by the late Romantic legacy and the emerging modernist currents that were redefining European music. Although his surviving output is small, it reveals a composer of striking sensitivity and technical awareness. Written at the age of only 17 by Visnoviz, a fragile and tormented musician whose life would end just eight years later, probably by his own hand, the Sonata contains the seeds of genius. Large in scale, in four movements, permeated with a late Romantic spirit but with stylistic features reminiscent of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and especially Brahms (with some harmonic exploration, a legacy of the post-war period), the Sonata presents a language that is both lyrical and dramatic. The program pairs the Sonata, with it's vast proportions, with the light piano aphorisms of the Klavierstücke. Despite his pianistic expertise, Visnoviz the composer did not leave any large-scale works for his instrument, preferring to focus on it's intimate and lyrical dimension. He condenses musical ideas into concise gestures, exploring contrasting moods, textures, and colors. The pieces frequently juxtapose delicate, introspective passages with more rhythmically driven or harmonically bold sections. This new recording is a labor of love by the two musicians Valentina Danelon (violin) and Cristina Santin (piano), who, during their study time, discovered Visnoviz's works in the Visnoviz Collection held by the Tartini Conservatory in Trieste.