Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel - Gade: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (2021) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 6: I. Allegro di molto
02. Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 6: II. Andante con moto
03. Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 6: III. Allegro con espressione
04. Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 21a: I. Adagio - Allegro di molto
05. Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 21a: II. Larghetto - Allegro vivace
06. Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 21a: III. Adagio - Allegro moderato - Allegro molto vivo
07. Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 59: I. Allegro con fuoco
08. Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 59: II. Allegro non troppo e scherzando
09. Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 59: III. Romanze. Andantino con moto
10. Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 59: IV. Finale. Allegro vivace
11. Volkstänze, Op. 62: No. 2, Allegro scherzando



"This is a splendid fellow and musician" - with this quote Robert Schumann characterized the then 26-year-old Danish composer-colleague Niels Wilhelm Gade in a letter of January 5, 1844 to his Dutch friend Johannes Verhulst. The works on this release are testimonies of three different creative periods of Gade: an early work is the first Sonata in A Major, Op. 6 (dedicated to Clara Schumann) - the second Sonata in D minor, Op. 21, (dedicated to Robert Schumann) was composed in 1850 - the third Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 59 (dedicated to Wilma Normann-Neruda) belongs to the circle of his late compositions. Among Gade's last works is the collection Volkstänze im nordischen Charakter, Op. 62, written in 1886 for the great violinist Joseph Joachim.

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