Bortkiewicz - Chamber Music
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96586
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 12th August 2022
Contents
Works
Elegie, op.46 (arr. Bortkiewicz for cello and piano)Etudes (10) pour piano, op.15
Suite for violin and piano, op.63
Violin Sonata in G minor, op.26
Artists
Christian Persinaru (violin)Paul Cox (cello)
Nils Franke (piano)
Works
Elegie, op.46 (arr. Bortkiewicz for cello and piano)Etudes (10) pour piano, op.15
Suite for violin and piano, op.63
Violin Sonata in G minor, op.26
Artists
Christian Persinaru (violin)Paul Cox (cello)
Nils Franke (piano)
About
In November 1920, he and his wife made for Allied-occupied Constantinople, where he befriended Géza Hegyi, Hungarian court pianist to the Sultan, Mehmed VI, and gained entry to the most influential diplomatic and social circles of the day. Unsatisfied there after some 20 months, he journeyed to Vienna, where he settled for the remainder of his life and weathered (another) war, occupation, Nazi persecution, Soviet obstruction and financial ruin. Being on the wrong side of the cloth in the wrong place at the wrong time was Bortkiewicz’s over-riding misfortune.
Dating from the start of his Vienna years, the Violin Sonata op.26 (1922) was published in 1924. A big-boned work of angst and drama, it looks back to imperial times and the poetry of generations long past. The pathos of the opening, the lacrimosa of the C minor slow movement’s last page, the bells, the 5/4 Russian dance of the finale, are arresting landmarks. The Suite op.63 (published in 1946 as ‘Four Pieces’) conjures Viennese waltz, Iberian evocación and tobacco-tinged nostalgia. The remaining three pieces for violin and piano are own-arrangements of piano solos: Berceuse (1916, from the A major Étude op.15 no.4) and nos. 2 and 5 of the Im 3/4-Takt collection (1935).
The Sibelian D flat Elegie op.46 for cello and piano, printed in 1936, is also an arrangement of an earlier piano solo (1931). More or less contemporary with (lost) manuscripts of a Cello Sonata and Piano Trio, Bortkiewicz’s Three Pieces op.25 – comprising a pair of pastiche dances and an opening F major Romance vaguely echoing Albéniz – date from 1924.
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