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78 Min.

2010

CD

120 g

Album: NEU und EINGESCHWEISST (OVP). STILL SEALED

Schumann: Sonatas For Piano & Violin / Sepec, Staier

Release Date: 08/10/2010
Label: Harmonia Mundi Catalog #: 902048 Spars Code: DDD
Composer: Robert Schumann, Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Daniel Sepec, Andreas Staier
Number of Discs: 1
Recorded in: Stereo
EAN: 0794881944026


Works on This Recording

1. Sonata for Violin and Piano no 1 in A minor, Op. 105 by Robert Schumann
Performer: Daniel Sepec (Violin), Andreas Staier (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1851; Germany
2. Sonata for Violin and Piano no 2 in D minor, Op. 121 by Robert Schumann
Performer: Daniel Sepec (Violin), Andreas Staier (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1851; Germany
3. Gesänge der Frühe (5) for Piano, Op. 133 by Robert Schumann
Performer: Andreas Staier (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1853; Germany
4. Partita for Violin solo no 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: 5th movement, Chaconne by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Daniel Sepec (Violin), Andreas Staier (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1720; Cöthen, Germany
Notes: Arranger: Schumann.


Notes and Editorial Reviews

"...the performance...will pop the corks on your champagne bottles. It amazes me how sforzandos and accents can be attacked with such savagery without ripping the instruments’ strings from their moorings. Even more amazing is how this feat can be accomplished without a hint of bow-scraping grit or grate, for this is playing of utter control and precision that is coiled tight as a cobra ready to strike." -- FANFARE [reviewing Daniel Sepec, Jean-Guihen Queryas, and Andreas Staier playing Beethoven and Hummel, HM 901955]

After his earlier 'Hommage à Bach' album played on the same 1837 Érard piano he uses here, Andreas Staier is now joined by Daniel Sepec in a programme of considerably later works by Schumann. But these two violin sonatas and the Gesänge der Frühe of 1853 show no retreat from the composer's ideal: here too, 'the poet speaks' . . .

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AllMusic Review by James Manheim [-]
This disc is a sequel to the Hommage à Bach release by German pianist Andreas Staier, likewise devoted to the music of Schumann. Here Staier devotes himself to Schumann's late music (from his last year or so among the sane), playing the Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133, himself, and taking on violinist Daniel Sepec for the two violin sonatas and Schumann's arrangement of Bach's Chaconne (here "Ciaconna") from the Partita for unaccompanied violin in D minor, BWV 1004. Both players use historical instruments, Staier's 1837 Erard is the same piano that's heard on the earlier release, and it's safe to say that those who enjoyed Hommage à Bach will also find much to admire here, even though the two performances are quite different in overall effect. The Chaconne is a different kind of Bach homage from those earlier in Schumann's career, and its new piano accompaniment has a diverse quality that has sometimes been taken to be unfocused. The lyrical, slightly murky sound of the Erard works beautifully here, giving the piece the quality of a meditation on Bach played in small quarters for connoisseurs. In the violin sonatas the case for a historical piano is not clear-cut, and some listeners will miss the brilliant sound at cadences and in passagework. On their own terms the performances succeed, with Sepec adopting a dry tone that emphasizes the formal, rather difficult qualities of the music. These sonatas in Sepec and Staier's readings seem to anticipate the intricate motivic structures of Brahms' chamber music, and, of course, Brahms, hanging around the Schumann household and lusting after Clara all the while, must have heard them and absorbed them well. The Gesänge der Frühe (Songs of Early Morning) are inward-looking representational pieces in Schumann's earlier manner, but again Staier's readings are subtle and reflective rather than tugging at the heartstrings. This disc is definitely worth the time of the Schumann lover, despite unpleasantly close-up sound that highlights extraneous noises made by both the performers and their instruments.

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Hier spricht der Dichter – Schumanns poetisches Ideal
Nach einer »Hommage an Bach« auf einem Erard-Flügel von 1837 gesellt sich Andreas Staier hier auf dem gleichen Instrument zu Daniel Sepec in einem Programm mit Spätwerken Robert Schumanns. Unabhängig davon, ob die beiden Sonaten nun für »Pianoforte und Violine« oder für »Violine und Pianoforte« komponiert sind, behauptet sich hier und in den »Gesängen der Frühe« von 1853 doch immer noch Schumanns poetisches Ideal: auch hier »spricht der Dichter«.

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Rezensionen

Crescendo September / Oktober 2010: "Die große Überraschung dieser CD ist Schumanns Transkription von Bachs viertelstündiger Violinpartita Nr. 2 d-Moll, die der Geiger Daniel Sepec souverän gearbeitet und dramaturgisch spannungsvoll aufgebaut hat. Das Klavier sekundiert, es liefert nicht mehr als einen dramatisch tremolierenden Unterton für die emotionalen Eskapaden der Violine. Die Bearbeitung verrät mithin viel über Schumanns Bach-Bild. Dass der Komponist auch für dessen Cello-Suiten eine Klavierbegleitung erfunden hat - wie das Beiheft verrät - macht neugierig. Passend jedenfalls, dass sich Andreas Staier nicht für Steinway entschieden hat, sondern für einen glockenhaft singenden Erard-Flügel, Baujahr 1837. Der schmeichelt den Ohren auch mit den 'Gesängen der Frühe'. Schließlich geben die Duopartner mit der 2. Großen Sonate für Violine und Pianoforte noch einmal alles."

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