Gabriel Tchalik, Dania Tchalik – Europe 1920: Violin Sonatas (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:22:21 minutes | 830 MB | Genre: Classical
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The present program features four sonatas for violin and piano written around 1920 by four composers of different nationalities and contrasting aesthetics, a representative panorama of the aesthetic profusion of musical Europe at that time. Here we find the relics and prolongations of Romanticism, the irruption of avant-gardes, and folk music being taken into account, this giving a new sense to the affirmation of musical nationalism.
The first two decades of the 20th century witnessed a fantastic springing up of avant-gardes, pushing the respective arts to stick to their own medium and forcing artists to develop their own aesthetic idioms. All this represents an excess of modernity when the sole forming of a movement immediately condemned it to being irremediably surpassed. For all that, trends inherited from the 19th century – post-Romanticism as well as the national schools – did not disappear. Remaining in the background, they continued to resonate with these new trends. ….
Tracklist:
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Violin Sonata in B Minor, P. 110
1 I. Moderato 09:51
2 II. Andante espressivo 08:58
3 III. Passacaglia (Allegro moderato ma energico) 07:52
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)
Violin Sonata in D-Flat Major, JW VII/7
4 I. Con moto 05:30
5 II. Ballada, Con moto 05:13
6 III. Allegretto 02:32
7 IV. Finale 05:30
Boris Lyatoshynsky (1895-1968)
Violin Sonata, Op. 19
8 I. Allegro impetuoso 08:16
9 II. Tempo precedente 05:49
10 III. Allegro molto risoluto 05:23
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, M. 77
11 I. Allegretto 08:00
12 II. Blues (Moderato) 05:27
13 III. Perpetuum mobile (Allegro) 04:01
