Leila Schayegh & Jan Schultsz – Brahms: Violin Sonatas (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:40 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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The violin sonatas of Johannes Brahms were the product of much self-critical reflection, and the three surviving works are from a composer mature in years. Composed around the same time as the Violin Concerto (No. 1), the Piano Trio in C Minor and the Cello Sonata No. 2 (Nos. 2 and 3), they also echo some of his songs, such as those written to poems by Klaus Groth. Into this Romantic atmosphere come new performances of the three works on Glossa, played by violinist Leila Schayegh (particularly awarded for her recordings of Bach, Caldara and Benda), teaming up here with pianist Jan Schultsz. Schayegh plays a copy of a period violin, whilst Schultsz uses an original 1879 Streicher instrument. The two players aim to recapture the performing tradition as the composer would have known it, and within which he would have intended his pieces to have been played. Schayegh and Schultsz worked with Clive Brown and Neal Peres Da Costa in their efforts to aim for “the spirit rather than the dead letter of the score” and they pay admirable notice of important interpretative questions for music of this time – and they provide an intuitive musical and emotional response to the lyricism of the first two sonatas and the darker-hued tones of the third, investing these late-nineteenth-century works.
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Daniel Behle, Jan Schultsz – Beethoven: Gegenliebe Lieder (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:38 minutes | 1,30 GBGenre: Classical
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The singer and composer Daniel Behle was honored with the prestigious OPUS Klassik as “Singer of the Year” in 2020. He is equally successful in concert, lied and opera. His repertoire ranges from baroque masterpieces, classical and romantic repertoire to 20th and 21st century compositions. His discography includes several award-winning recordings. His Lied recordings, including “Die Schöne Müllerin” and his two albums of Strauss songs, the most recent of which was awarded the German Record Critics’ Prize, have attracted particular attention. On his latest recording, Behle now presents a selection of Beethoven songs, accompanied by Jan Schultsz on fortepiano. Unlike Schubert or Schumann, Beethoven is not immediately associated with the Lied; one associates him more with the representative of the grand gesture. Nevertheless, this does not prevent him from leaving almost one hundred songs to posterity. “An die ferne Geliebte” (1851/1816) is undoubtedly one of the most famous of these works.
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