Grieg - Violin Sonatas | Ars Produktion ARS38496

Grieg - Violin Sonatas

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Label: Ars Produktion

Cat No: ARS38496

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 14th February 2011

Contents

Artists

Alban Beikircher (violin)
Senka Brankovic (piano)

Works

Grieg, Edvard

Sigurd Jorsalfar, op.22
» no.2 Borghild's Dream 'Gavotte'
Violin Sonata no.1 in F major, op.8
Violin Sonata no.2 in G major, op.13
Violin Sonata no.3 in C minor, op.45

Artists

Alban Beikircher (violin)
Senka Brankovic (piano)

About

Edvard Grieg’s three violin sonatas use the classic three-movement layout in a very individual and virtuosic way, and both instruments have equal opportunities to show off their musical and technical abilities.

Two of the three violin sonatas are works of the young composer who, following his studies in Leipzig, was in search of his own romantic, indigenous folkloric style; the third sonata is exemplary of his self-confident and firmly established sound. In a letter to Norway’s celebrated author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson from January 16, 1900, Grieg wrote about his three violin sonatas: “These three works are among my very best and represent different stages in my development: the first, naïve and rich in ideals; the second, nationalistic; and the third with a wider outlook.

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