Janacek, Brahms, Bartok - Violin Sonatas | Alpha ALPHA885

Janacek, Brahms, Bartok - Violin Sonatas

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA885

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 6th January 2023

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This new recording marks the reformation of the legendary duo of Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazıl Say. The Moldovan violinist says the Turkish pianist ‘is a volcano, with an indomitable strength and energy’, while he emphasises the ‘freedom’ that her ‘spontaneous playing’ exudes: ‘At each concert, she creates a different character and tells a new story.’

The explosive duo presents a programme devoted to Bartók’s Violin Sonata no.1 (‘a marvel from start to finish, one of his finest works’, says Patkop), Brahms’s D minor Sonata (‘I imagine a feather in flight at the opening of the sonata’) and Janáček’s Sonata, ‘an extreme work, wounded and heart-rending’.

‘a player of rare expressive energy and disarming informality, of whimsy and theatrical ambition’ – New York Times

‘The most astonishing music-making, however, came from neither orchestra nor conductor, but the soloist in the Schoenberg – the barefoot Patricia Kopatchinskaja, who inhabited this complex concerto as I have never heard a violinist do before. Utterly fresh in her approach, she imagined it as a surreal psychodrama without words, volcanic in its outbursts, startling in its juxtapositions. Constantly characterised (and slightly demeaned) as a “quirky maverick”, Kopatchinskaja proved here that she’s in a class of her own.’ – The Times

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Expectations are ripe for overturning here, especially in the Brahms. Kopatchinskaja says the opening of his Violin Sonata No 3 in D Minor makes her think more of Debussy. Like “a feather that curves its way through the air” is her description, and the result is certainly very delicate, though other violinists have chosen a deeper, warmer sound in Brahms for a reason. By contrast, the fleeting emotions of Janáček’s Violin Sonata might have been made for her lightning responses. At times, the intensity takes the music to breaking point, but Kopatchinskaja argues that she is striving to capture not only its beauty, but also its angst and heartbreak
Financial Times

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