Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel – Gade: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel – Gade: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:11 minutes | 794 MB | Genre: Classical
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“This is a splendid fellow and musician” – with this quote Robert Schumann characterized the then 26-year-old Danish composer-colleague Niels Wilhelm Gade in a letter of January 5, 1844 to his Dutch friend Johannes Verhulst. The works on this release are testimonies of three different creative periods of Gade: an early work is the first Sonata in A Major, Op. 6 (dedicated to Clara Schumann) – the second Sonata in D minor, Op. 21, (dedicated to Robert Schumann) was composed in 1850 – the third Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 59 (dedicated to Wilma Normann-Neruda) belongs to the circle of his late compositions. Among Gade’s last works is the collection Volkstänze im nordischen Charakter, Op. 62, written in 1886 for the great violinist Joseph Joachim.

Tracklist:
01. Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel – Gade: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 6: I. Allegro di molto (08:51)
02. Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel – Gade: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 6: II. Andante con moto (06:54)
03. Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel – Gade: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 6: III. Allegro con espressione (10:25)
04. Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel – Gade: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 21a: I. Adagio – Allegro di molto (07:48)
05. Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel – Gade: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 21a: II. Larghetto – Allegro vivace (07:06)
06. Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel – Gade: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 21a: III. Adagio – Allegro moderato – Allegro molto vivo (06:31)
07. Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel – Gade: Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 59: I. Allegro con fuoco (08:49)
08. Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel – Gade: Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 59: II. Allegro non troppo e scherzando (04:23)
09. Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel – Gade: Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 59: III. Romanze. Andantino con moto (05:41)
10. Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel – Gade: Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 59: IV. Finale. Allegro vivace (05:57)
11. Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel – Gade: Volkstänze, Op. 62: No. 2, Allegro scherzando (02:45)

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