Works for violin and piano by Beethoven, Ravel, Bartók & Say

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Works for violin and piano by Beethoven, Ravel, Bartók & Say
Studio album by Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Fazıl Say

Publication
(s)

2009

Label (s) Naïve

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Classical music

Title (number)

4th

occupation Patricia Kopatchinskaja , Fazıl Say

The CD recording of works for violin and piano by Beethoven, Ravel, Bartók & Say by Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazıl Say from 2008 was a much-discussed work in the classical music scene. It documents the first concert program developed jointly by the Moldovan violinist and the Turkish pianist. In 2009 the album received the ECHO Klassik for best chamber music recording.

For the blues part of the recording of the Ravel work, the pianist prepared his instrument with ashtrays and spoons in order to create a new sound, Beethoven can be heard in an unprecedented interpretation.

Can be heard in detail

  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano No. 9 in A major op. 47 "Kreutzer Sonata"
  • Fazıl Say: Sonata for violin and piano op.7
  • Béla Bartók : Six Romanian Folk Dances, Sz 56 (arranged for violin and piano by Zoltán Székely)
  • Maurice Ravel: Sonata for violin and piano in G major.

Klassik.com states in its review that the CD "caused a scandal". The violinist even felt compelled to make it clear on her homepage that she would not apologize for her recording with Say. The reviewer of the Frankfurter Rundschau wrote on January 12th that even while listening to the first recording (Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata ) he was “in the middle of a hurricane”. He even spoke of a "natural event, against which even the recording of the legendary duo Martha Argerich / Gidon Kremer can almost be described as a mild breeze". The classical music magazine Ensemble was also of the opinion that "the sonata No. 9 in A major for violin and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven had [never] been heard". Die Zeit saw “soul filled to the brim” in the CD and, in particular, Bartók's Romanian folk dances were “superbly” interpreted by the two Southeast Europeans.

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Jürgen Otten: Gentle volcano . In: FR-Online from January 12, 2009
  2. ↑ Christine Lemke-Matwey : Soul filled to the brim . In: Die Zeit , May 7, 2009 No. 20

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