Brahms: Violin Sonatas
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Sonatas
Alina Ibragimova (violin) Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 30 August 2019
Matchless accounts of Brahms at his most lyrically reflective, plus a benedictory encore by Clara Schumann: this is another outstanding release from today's pre-eminent violin and piano partnership.
"The song-like nature of the first two Brahms sonatas is very much to the fore, Ibragimova playing with a miraculously sinuous vocal line, graceful, sonorous and at times heartbreakingly tender. Tiberghien is both poetic and magisterial, particularly in the first movement of the second sonata." Observer
"Magisterial performances from both players, worthy of the finest on disc. They revel in the typically Brahmsian shifts of mood between songful nostalgia and turbulent drama, yet suffused with a yearning melancholy. Deeply moving." Sunday Times
"Just as it seems things couldn't get any better, they finish with a dreamily poetic rendering of the first Clara Schumann's op.22 Romances, guaranteed to have even the sternest of countenances misting over." The Strad
Tracks:
Violin Sonata No 1 in G major Op 78 [27'21]
1 Vivace ma non troppo [10'40]
2 Adagio - Più andante - Adagio come I [8'06]
3 Allegro molto moderato - Più moderato [8'35]
Violin Sonata No 2 in A major Op 100 [18'55]
4 Allegro amabile [8'08]
5 Andante tranquillo - Vivace - Andante - Vivace di più - Andante - Vivace [5'35]
6 Allegretto grazioso, quasi Andante [5'12]
Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 [21'13]
7 Allegro [8'29]
8 Adagio [4'13]
9 Un poco presto e con sentimento [2'58]
10 Presto agitato [5'33]
CLARA SCHUMANN
11 Andante molto [3'32]
(No 1 of Three Romances, Op 22)
