Goedicke - Music for Violin & Piano
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95973
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 10th December 2021
Contents
Works
Pieces (10) for violin and piano, op.80Violin Sonata no.1 in A major, op.10
Violin Sonata no.2 in D major, op.83
Artists
Francesco Parrino (violin)Michele Pentrella (piano)
Works
Pieces (10) for violin and piano, op.80Violin Sonata no.1 in A major, op.10
Violin Sonata no.2 in D major, op.83
Artists
Francesco Parrino (violin)Michele Pentrella (piano)
About
Having completed his conservatory studies, in 1900 he competed as both composer and pianist in the third Rubinstein Competition in Vienna, winning the composition prize with his Konzertstück for piano and orchestra. Medtner, who also took part in the competition, recalls in his Memoirs that the prize for best pianist was given to the Belgian Emile Bosquet – whom he considered inferior to both himself and Goedicke – because the jury had developed a hostile attitude towards Russian pianists and did not want to bestow two prizes on Goedicke. In fact, Goedicke won in the composers’ category with the Violin Sonata, op.10, as well.
That Violin Sonata, composed in 1899 (but published in 1901 by Jurgenson), is dedicated to Jan Hřímalý, a Czech violinist and fellow-professor of Goedicke’s at the Moscow Conservatory. The sonata’s nickname, “Vesennjaja” (spring), is a clear reference to Rachmaninov’s song “Spring Waters”, op.14 no.11, which is quoted at the beginning of the first and the end of the final movement of Goedicke’s sonata. But even greater than the influence of Rachmaninov is that of German Romanticism.
While Op.10 is a youthful work, the Violin Sonata, op.83, composed between 1948 and 1953 (but published only posthumously in 1972), is a clear rebuttal of Tikhon Khrennikov’s notorious anti-formalist attacks (on Shostakovich and Prokofiev, among others) from a composer shielded behind decades of academic tenure. The sonata reaches far into the past, even to early Beethoven, with a construction so formally impeccable as to seem almost provocatively anachronistic.
On the other hand, the 10 Pieces, op.80 (“of average difficulty, in first position”), also dating from 1948, are wholly different. Effectively combining pleasant melody and the evocation of childhood, they fit with dignity in a line stretching from Schumann’s to Tchaikovsky’s Albums for the Young, shedding light on Goedicke’s prolific didactic side.
All works are world-premiere recordings
Recorded in October 2019 and September 2020 in Castrezzato (Brescia), Italy
Bilingual booklet in English and Italian contains notes on the composer and the works by Nicola Cattò, director of the Italian classical music magazine Musica
Francesco Parrino plays a G. & A. Gagliano violin (Naples, c.1790–1805)
Michele Pentrella plays a Yamaha CFIIIS 9-foot concert grand
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