Bart?k: Violin Sonatas

Bart?k: Violin Sonatas

Bart?k: Violin Sonatas
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Composer: Bela Bartok
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes
Performer: Christian Tetzlaff
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-07-13
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
  1. Allegro Appassionato
  2. Adagio
  3. Allegro
  4. Molto Moderato
  5. Allegretto
  6. Tempo De Ciaccona
  7. Fuga: Risoluto, Non Troppo Vivace
  8. Melodia: Adagio
  9. Presto

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Free Music Review: A Fine Way To Delve Deeper Into Bart?k
Hit: 4 Stars

After several previous listening entries, mainly in the orchestral and concerto forms, I now feel comfortably inside the idiom where Bart?k's Violin Sonatas firmly reside. It's where angularity and emotive phrasing supersede an often futile effort at establishing melody to make for a listening experience that ultimately comes to rest somewhere just the other side of "comfortable". In the Sonata No. 1 and No. 2, Teztlaff and Andsnes make for able and sympathetic guides, exploiting an impressive array of dynamic and tonal ranges and often exchanging the lead in their dialogue so that the listener feels as if he's overhearing a poignant, intimate conversation whose participants covertly wish to be overheard -- by turns contemplative and then nakedly expressive. This is abetted by a recording scheme which gives equal weight to each instrument -- indeed, the violin is occasionally overcome in the balance. The Amazon reviewer is correct in suggesting that Tetzlaff's phrasing offers very fine intonation without added astringency, allowing Bart?k's moderately and inherently astringent expression to speak effectively on its own. (By the by, there's a brief musical statement in the Sonata No. 1 which I know I've heard before, but I just can't nail it!) This is my introduction to these works and I greatly look forward to continuing on in the Bart?kian journey.

Bart?k: Violin Sonatas Poster

Bart?k's Violin Sonatas are among the greatest and most challenging of his works. Tetzlaff and Andsnes, an all-star collaboration, approach the music as though they were aware that these pieces are tough nuts for many listeners. They emphasize the lyrical aspects of the music and play as though they were attempting to make the music more accessible. This is not Bart?k lite. The music still has plenty of bite and ferociousness, and the instrumental execution throughout (including Tetzlaff's playing of the Solo Sonata) is truly formidable. But the disc could provide an entry to a difficult area of Bart?k's music for new listeners. Those looking for fiercer performances will seek out the classic Oistrakh-Richter version of the Sonata No. 1 and, if you can put up with the limited sound, Szigeti-Bart?k for No. 2. The Naxos CD by Hungarians Gy?rgy Pauk and Jen? Jand? is also strikingly powerful and would make a good supplement to the Virgin Classics issue for those who believe that one version of a musical masterpiece is never enough. --Leslie Gerber

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