Thomas Albertus Irnberger - French Violin Sonatas (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

On this double SACD, "Paths into Impressionism" are taken: starting with the two important Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Gabriel Faure, the first of which was already described as a masterpiece by Camille Saint-Saens, and four other short pieces by Faure, the great Salzburg violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger and the German pianist Michael Korstick, who is already very familiar with the French idiom through many of his own recordings, present further works from the French and Belgian repertoire in their usual masterly and spirited interpretations: the Sonata by the early deceased Guillaume Lekeu, which was commissioned and premiered by Eugene Ysaÿe, and Maurice Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Piano (with a Blues as the middle movement), which is characterized by Ravel's view that violin and piano were fundamentally incompatible. The resulting manifold parallel developments and bitonal frictions create specific stimuli, though without showing even the slightest hint of the music falling apart. Ravel's "Kaddish" and the "Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faure", dedicated to his teacher, can also be heard, as well as the Sonata by Francis Poulenc, written in collaboration with Ginette Neveu and dedicated posthumously to Federico Garcia Lorca, and the fascinating work "Theme et variations" by Olivier Messiaen, which he dedicated to his first wife, a violinist, and which still contains many impressionistic elements.

TRACKLIST

1. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Fauré: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A major, Op. 13: I - Allegro molto
2. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Fauré: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A major, Op. 13: II - Andante
3. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Fauré: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A major, Op. 13: III - Allegro vivo
4. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Fauré: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A major, Op. 13: IV - Allegro quasi presto
5. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Fauré: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108: I - Allegro non troppo
6. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Fauré: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108: II - Andante
7. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Fauré: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108: III - Final. Allegro non troppo
8. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Fauré: Romance pour violon et piano op. 28
9. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Fauré: Andante pour violon et piano op. 75
10. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Fauré: Sicilienne pour violoncelle/violon et piano op. 78
11. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Fauré: Berceuse pour violon et piano op. 16
12. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Messiaen: Thème et variations pour violon et piano
13. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Lekeu: Sonata for Piano and Violin: I - Très modéré – vif et passionné
14. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Lekeu: Sonata for Piano and Violin: II - Très lent
15. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Lekeu: Sonata for Piano and Violin: III - Très animé
16. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Piano: I - Allegretto
17. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Piano: II - Blues: Moderato
18. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Piano: III - Perpetuum mobile: Allegro
19. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Poulenc: Sonata for Violin and Piano: I - Allegro con fuoco
20. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Poulenc: Sonata for Violin and Piano: II - Intermezzo: Très lent et calme
21. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Poulenc: Sonata for Violin and Piano: III - Presto tragico
22. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Ravel: Deux mélodies hébraïques: I. Kaddisch (pour violon et piano)
23. Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick - Ravel: Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré. Simplice



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