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On this double SACD, InchPaths into ImpressionismInch are taken starting with the two important Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Gabriel Faure, the first of which was already described as a masterpiece by Camille Saint-Saens, and four other short pieces by Faure, the great Salzburg violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger and the German pianist Michael Korstick, who is already very familiar with the French idiom through many of his own recordings, present further works from the French and Belgian repertoire in their usual masterly and spirited interpretations the Sonata by the early deceased Guillaume Lekeu, which was commissioned and premiered by Eugene Ysaÿe, and Maurice Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Piano (with a Blues as the middle movement), which is characterized by Ravel's view that violin and piano were fundamentally incompatible. The resulting manifold parallel developments and bitonal frictions create specific stimuli, though without showing even the slightest hint of the music falling apart. Ravel's InchKaddishInch and the InchBerceuse sur le nom de Gabriel FaureInch, dedicated to his teacher, can also be heard, as well as the Sonata by Francis Poulenc, written in collaboration with Ginette Neveu and dedicated posthumously to Federico Garcia Lorca, and the fascinating work InchTheme et variationsInch by Olivier Messiaen, which he dedicated to his first wife, a violinist, and which still contains many impressionistic elements. Details 1. Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 1 A-Dur Op. 13 / Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A major, Op. 13~I. Allegro molto 2. Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 1 A-Dur Op. 13 / Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A major, Op. 13~II. Andante 3. Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 1 A-Dur Op. 13 / Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A major, Op. 13~III. Allegro vivo 4. Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 1 A-Dur Op. 13
