Antje Weithaas - Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos. 2, 4 & 9 „Kreutzer“ (2023) [Official Digital Download]

With Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon, two instrumentalists are at work who deliver a spirited result above all through their inspiring musicality and absolutely precise and highly concentrated playing. Both artists are known and toured worldwide as unique chamber musicians. In Vol. I of the planned complete recording, they have decided not to follow chronology, but rather - even more delightfully and diversely - to seek contrast. Here the compositional developments can be marveled at even more strikingly. Volume 1 circles with Op. 12 / 2, Op. 23 and Op. 47 tonally around the spectrum of A major and A minor.

This applies to all movements of these three sonatas - except for the Variations movement of the Kreutzer Sonata in F major. All three works in this volume follow the tradition in the number and formal arrangement of the movements: three movements with a fast first and final movement - in sonata or rondo form - and a slower, mostly melodic middle movement.

But Beethoven understands the reference to tradition as inspiration for something new, something of his own. The developmental lines between the second and penultimate violin sonatas, both in A major, can be clearly explored. The two further volumes of the complete edition are scheduled for release over the next 12 months

TRACKLIST

1. Antje Weithaas - I. Allegro vivace
2. Antje Weithaas - II. Andante, più tosto Allegretto
3. Antje Weithaas - III. Allegro piacevole
4. Antje Weithaas - I. Presto
5. Antje Weithaas - II. Andante scherzoso, più allegretto
6. Antje Weithaas - III. Allegro molto
7. Antje Weithaas - I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto
8. Antje Weithaas - II. Andante con variazioni
9. Antje Weithaas - III. Finale. Presto



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