Hungarian Heights: Dohnanyi, Kodaly, Liszt
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Label: Odradek Records
Cat No: ODRCD433
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 27th October 2023
Contents
Works
Violin Sonata in C sharp minor, op.21Duo for violin and cello, op.7
Tristia, S723 (arranged from Vallee d'Obermann)
Artists
Franziska Pietsch (violin)Maki Hayashida (piano)
Hila Karni (cello)
Works
Violin Sonata in C sharp minor, op.21Duo for violin and cello, op.7
Tristia, S723 (arranged from Vallee d'Obermann)
Artists
Franziska Pietsch (violin)Maki Hayashida (piano)
Hila Karni (cello)
About
Dohnányi was profoundly influenced by Liszt and Brahms (who frequently drew upon Hungarian styles), and nowhere is this more evident than in his most significant chamber work, his Violin Sonata in C sharp minor, op.21. Composed in Berlin in 1911, the work's lean structures demonstrate how closely Dohnányi had been studying Brahms's sonatas, and show Liszt's influence in their thematic integration. Yet this deep level of organisation is delivered with a lightness of touch: an energetic, animated spirit possesses the entire sonata.
Kodály wrote his Duo for violin and cello, op.7, just as the First World War was beginning. The pairing of these instruments is surprisingly rare; few composers have attempted combining these sonorities without a piano or other strings to add textural weight. For Kodály, the combination inspired an inventive approach to both instruments, resulting in music that is both virtuosic and ingenious.
Liszt channelled his nationality in many ways, but he was also widely travelled, as reflected in his three-volume collection of piano pieces, the Années de pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage). The first volume, 'Première année: Suisse' includes the enchanting piece 'Vallée d'Obermann' ('Obermann's Valley'), a title borrowed from the epistolary novel by Étienne Pivert de Senancour. We hear a magnificent version for piano trio; as Pietsch says in the album booklet: "We are immersed in a dark, sonorous meditation on the abysses of the human soul..."
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