Beethoven / Ogata,Susanna / Watson,Ian - Sonatas for Fortepiano & Violin 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Beethoven / Watson / Ogata - Beethoven Sonatas for Fortepiano & Violin 3 [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/02/2017

This is the second of four installments which will record Susanna Ogata and Ian Watson performing the complete Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin of Ludwig van Beethoven. Watson and Ogata use period instruments, revealing the beauty and clarity of these works in the way they were originally conceived by the composer. InchExhilarating... Ogata and Watson's urgent, dramatic readings benefit from the clarity of period instruments and generate excitement in each of the opening movements... Their buoyant rhythmic sense enlivens the finales.Inch (The Strad on Volume 1)

Ian Watson and Susanna Ogata's acclaimed series on Coro Connections continues with the fourth album in their exploration of Beethoven's Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin. The Opus 12 Sonatas that are explored on this final volume are among the most Mozartian of the sonatas. They are, however, filled with Beethoven's inimitable voice, from the assertive Sonata No. 1, in the violin's most brilliant and sonorous key of D major, to the pianistically brilliant No. 3 in E flat with it's cascades of triplets and sextuplets. Unmistakably Beethoven! Susanna Ogata has been praised for her Inchtotally convincing, spontaneous and free-flowing playingInch (The Berkshire Review) and is a tenured member of the Handel and Haydn Society where she was appointed Assistant Concertmaster of the orchestra in 2014. Ian Watson has been described by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as Incha conductor of formidable ability,Inch and by The Times in London as a keyboard performer with Inchvirtuosic panache and brilliantly articulated playingInch and Incha world-class soloist.Inch He was appointed Associate Conductor of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society in 2016.