FAURÉ; STRAUSS Violin Sonatas
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Composer or Director: Gabriel Fauré, Richard Strauss
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Magazine Review Date: 10/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 54
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 481 1774

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Emanuel Ax, Piano Gabriel Fauré, Composer Itzhak Perlman, Violin |
Sonata for Violin and Piano |
Richard Strauss, Composer
Emanuel Ax, Piano Itzhak Perlman, Violin Richard Strauss, Composer |
Author: Duncan Druce
Restraint is not likely to be a virtue in Strauss’s highly Romantic sonata, and this performance is certainly admirably full-blooded. Compared to the fine recent account by Augustin Dumay and Louis Lortie, Perlman and Ax impart greater energy and momentum to the quick movements, giving them a Don Juan-like sense of overwhelming life force. Yet there’s subtlety, too, with Perlman adopting a moving, ‘speaking’ style in the Andante, reminiscent of Heifetz, while Ax finds an extra delicacy of touch for the filigree passages near the end of the movement. It’s pity they make the cut in the finale (tr 7, 7'27") which Heifetz also used to make – Dumay and Lortie show how effective this passage can be. But this issue can only be warmly welcomed; the players’ evident enjoyment in the music is quite irresistible.
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