Tasmin Littlemartin Roscoe - French Violin Sonatas [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Our exclusive Chandos artist Tasmin Little explores three great French violin sonatas, after a much revered recording of British violin sonatas in 2013.She and pianist Martin Roscoe have enjoyed a long standing chamber music partnership. On this album they immerse themselves in music of three of the best late-nineteenth-century French composers: Gabriel Faurxe9, Guillaume Lekeu, and Maurice Ravel. Written in 1875, shortly after his thirtieth birthday, the Sonata in A major by Gabriel Faurxe9 has often been regarded as his first masterpiece. And despite having faced a daunting reception, it has become a reference in the romantic repertoire. The first two movements, serious and solemn, are followed by light-footed, airy movements, the final Allegro drawing energy from Faurxe9's favourite off-beat chordal accompaniment. As the last arrival in the 'Bande xe0 Franck', Guillaume Lekeu, in his twenty-fou-ryear-long life, wrote some fifty pieces of 'tremulous emotion', of which the Violin Sonata, of 1892 - 93, is by far the best known. The opening movement of an unfinished early violin sonata by Ravel was not published until 1975, his centenary year, and the first known modern performance took place that year in New York. The movement convincingly unites different styles, from Faurxe9's in the modal opening to Franckian chords in the development passage that leads back to the tune over chromatically descending triads xe0 la Debussy, not to mention a second theme, over pulsing quavers, that clearly belongs to the Gounod / Massenet tradition.

<b>Faurxc3xa9</b> | Sonata No 1 in A major, Op 13 - Tasmin Little/Martin Roscoe

<b>Lekeu</b> | Sonata in G major - Tasmin Little/Martin Roscoe

<b>Ravel</b> | Sonata movement in A minor - Tasmin Little/Martin Roscoe

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