Silas Wollston - Violin Sonatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Written over the course of a quarter-century, these four flute works reflect the individual approaches to the flute sonata taken by their composers. Hindemith's aim was to offer new music of buoyancy and brio, tempered by elegiac moments. Prokofiev's famous sonata has Classical formal elegance, while the sonatas of Denisov and Nagovitsyn are single movement works that explore the flute's extreme registers, as well as it's dynamic contrasts and virtuosic capacities. Denis Lupachev won First Prize at the International Festival 'Virtuosi2000' (Russia) in 1993, and in 1997 received the jury's Special Prize at the Kobe International Flute Competition (Japan). In 1999, he was awarded First Prize at the 'Leonardo de Lorenzo' International Flute Competition (Italy). Lupachev gives many recitals and chamber music concerts in Russia as well as throughout Europe. Since 2016, he has organized the International Festival 'Virtuosi of the Flute' in the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. Peter Laul was awarded First Prize in both the Bremen International Piano Competition (1997) and the Scriabin International Piano Competition in Moscow (2000). Laul has given recitals at prestigious international venues such as the halls of the St Petersburg Philharmonic and the Moscow Conservatory, the Auditorium du Louvre, Lincoln Center in New York, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, and Suntory Hall and Opera City Concert Hall in Tokyo. He is a consummate chamber musician, who regularly partners with Maxim Vengerov, Ilya Gringolts, Valery Sokolov, Alexander Ghindin and the Borodin Quartet. Album Tracks 1. Flute Sonata (1936) 2. Flute Sonata (1962) 3. Flute Sonata (1960) 4. Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 94 (1943)

Jean-Marie Leclair was a master of fusing Italian and French idioms, conjoining the lyricism of the former with the dance momentum of the latter. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in his third book of violin sonatas. The sonatas in this album embody rich melodic beauty, drone and rustic elements - most vividly in the Tambourin of the C major sonata in which a hurdy-gurdy is employed- and demand tour de force virtuosity such as in the joyous Ciaccona of the G major sonata. De-scribed by Gramophone as 'technically and musically a marvel' (Naxos 8.572866), Adrian Butterfield completes his acclaimed traversal of Leclair's Violin Sonatas Books Nos.1-3. Album Tracks 1. Violin Sonata in E Major, Op. 5, No. 9 2. Violin Sonata in C Major, Op. 5, No. 10 3. Violin Sonata in G minor, Op. 5, No. 11 4. Violin Sonata in G Major, Op. 5, No. 12

Album Tracks 1. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Sarabanda - Theme 2. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita One 3. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Two 4. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Three 5. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Four 6. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Five 7. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Six 8. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Seven 9. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Eight 10. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Nine 11. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Ten 12. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Eleven 13. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Twelve Allemanda 14. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Thirteen Courante 15. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Fourteen Aria Variata 16. Sarabanda Con Partite BWV 990 - Partita Ultima Giguetta 17. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Aria 18. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variatio 1. a 1 Clav 19. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variatio 2. a 1 Clav 20. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variatio 3. Canone All Unisuono.A 1 Clav 21. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variatio 4. a 1 Clav 22. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variatio 5. a 1 Ô Vero 2 Clav 23. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variatio 6. Canone Alla Secunda.A 1 Clav 24. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variatio 7. a 1 Ô Vero 2 Clav. Al Tempo Di Giga 25. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variatio 8. a 2 Clav 26. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variatio 9. Canone Alla Terza. a 1 Clav 27. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variatio 10. Fugetta. a 1 Clav 28. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variatio 11. a 2 Clav 29. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variatio 12. Canone Alla Quarta. a 1 Clav 30. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variatio 13. a 2 Clav 1. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Variati