Ernst von Dohnanyi: Sonate für Violine & Klavier op.21 (CD)

Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960)

Mit weiteren Werken von: Leos Janacek (1854-1928)

Contributors: Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez

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+Ruralia hungarica op. 32c
+Dohnanyi / Heifetz: Romanza aus der Orchestersuite Nr. 1
+Janacek: Sonate für Violine & Klavier; Dumka; Romanze; Allegro aus der Sonate für Violine & Klavier; A blown-away Leaf aus "On the Overgrown Path"

Artists:: Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez
Label:: Hyperion
Year of recording ca.:: 2009
UPC/EAN:: 0034571176994
Release date:: 23.4.2010

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Hagai Shaham and Arnon Erez have been enthusiastically acclaimed for their dazzling duo performances: their infectiously relaxed bravado and continual flexibility belying their impeccable ensemble. For their latest disc they turn to two composers who are seminal figures in the development of Eastern European music during the early twentieth century.

Dohnányi was one of the pivotal figures in Hungary’s musical life. He composed a number of significant pieces for the violin, including two violin concertos; his most important chamber work for violin and piano is the Violin Sonata in C sharp minor Op 21, composed in 1912. Dohnányi was by then thirty-five years of age, and the Sonata is a fully mature work showing his individual development of stylistic traits of Brahms and Liszt combined with a structural economy which reflects the close study of Brahms’s sonatas. Also recorded here is Dohnányi’s most overtly folk-influenced work, Ruralia hungarica, and a movement from his First Orchestral Suite, in F sharp minor Op 19, Romanza, arranged as a thoroughly idiomatic piece for violin and piano by Jascha Heifetz.

In the first days of World War I Dohnányi’s native Hungary was invaded by the Russian army, which seemed for a time to herald the end of Austrian dominance in the region. This portentous event provided the creative spark for Leoš Janácek’s Violin Sonata (his only surviving violin sonata; two very early ones he composed in Dresden and Vienna in 1880 are lost), at least according to Janácek himself. Other works by Janácek heard in this recital include early pieces from his student years, and an arrangement of the delicate mood study ‘A blown-away Leaf’ from the celebrated piano work On the Overgrown Path.

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'[Dohnányi] The strongly Brahmsian Sonata is given a warm and affectionate reading, the central variation movement imaginatively characterised with Shaham's honeyed tone proving an ideal foil for Arnon Erez's bold and dynamic piano playing. But it's the more folksy Ruralia hungarica that draws the most compelling performance, Shaham negotiating the challenging violin pyrotechnics of the outer movements with impressive powerhouse playing as well as delivering a wonderfully atmospheric Andante rubato alla Zingaresca' (BBC Music Magazine)

'[Dohnányi Sonata] Shaham and Erez give an excellent performance, Shaham's seductive tone and elegant phrasing being well matched by Erez's sensitive touch. The Ruralia hungarica pieces show the composer's more nationalistic side but are still farily traditional in their approach to folk material. Shaham is in his element here - the brilliant final piece carefree and dashing in style, the preceding, improvisatory Andante rubato alla zingaresca graceful and stylish' (Gramophone)

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

Sonate op. 21 cis-moll für Violine und Klavier (1912)

1 1. Satz: Allegro appassionato
2 2. Satz: Allegro ma con tenerezza
3 3. Satz: Vivace assai

Ruralia Hungarica op. 32c (3 Stücke für Violine und Klavier)

4 Nr. 1 Presto
5 Nr. 2 Andante rubato alla Zingaresca
6 Nr. 3 Molto vivace

7 Orchestersuite op. 19 / Suite für Orchester op. 19 fis-moll Nr. 3 (Romanza, Andante poco moto)

Sonate für Violine und Klavier as-moll (1912 / 21)

8 1. Satz: Con moto
9 2. Satz: Ballada - con moto
10 3. Satz: Allegretto
11 4. Satz: Adagio

12 Dumka (1880) (für Violine und Klavier)
13 Romanze (1879) (für Violine und Klavier)
14 Allegro (1916) (Frühfass. d. 4. Satzes d. Violinsonate)
15 Auf verwachsenem Pfad (1901 / 08) / (Po zarostlem chodnicku) Zyklus in 15 Sätzen für Klavier Nr. 2