Vivaldi / La Serenissima - Vivaldi X2² - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Their third duo album on Signum Classics, Viktoria Mullova and Alasdair Beatson perform Beethoven's Sonatas 2 and 10. Uniquely for the A Major sonata Op 12 No 2 they use a copy of an 1805 Walter (a Viennese fortepiano), and for Sonata No 10 op. 96 they use a copy of an 1819 graf, both by Paul McNulty. Together with violin strung with gut, these instruments are what Beethoven's music craves, giving a rich texture and distinct colours between the registers. ? Inch'Optimistic, ebullient and inexhaustibly inventive' is how the pianist Alasdair Beatson describes the three Beethoven sonatas on this disc - and that is exactly how they come across in these performances with the violinist Viktoria Mullova. The sense of rustic abandon they create in this work is infectiously gleeful.Inch - The Guardian ? Recording ? Performance InchTheir dazzling playing captures all the music's wit and brillianceInch - BBC Music Magazine Album Tracks 2. Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12~II. Andante, più tosto Allegretto 4. Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96~I. Allegro moderato 5. Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96~II. Adagio espressivo

Album Tracks 1. Son No.1 in C, Op.28 PRLD 2. Son No.1 in C, Op.28 Andante 3. Son No.1 in C, Op.28 Finale 4. Son No.2 in a Flat, Op.65 Grave - Allegro 5. Son No.2 in a Flat, Op.65 Adagio Espressivo 6. Son No.2 in a Flat, Op.65 Finale 7. Son No.3 in G, Op.88 Pastorale 8. Son No.3 in G, Op.88 Intermezzo 9. Son No.3 in G, Op.88 Fugue 10. Son No.4 in a, Op.98 (Tempo Moderato) 11. Son No.4 in a, Op.98 Intermezzo 12. Son No.4 in a, Op.98 Fuga Cromatica

This collection of songs with voice and clarinet has at it's heart Lori Laitman's profoundly moving cycle I Never Saw Another Butterfly, which sets the words of hope and desolation written by children imprisoned in the Terezín concentration camp. Inspired by this poignant music, Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk and Denise Gainey commissioned a follow-up, The Secret Exit, on poems by Nobel Laureate Nelly Sachs that reflect on life and death. Newly arranged for voice and clarinet, Living In The Body is a cycle about love, memory and resilience. The program is completed with Diana Rosenblum's delightful setting of Winter Rain and Kalmen Opperman's haunting Unseul. Album Tracks 1. Un Seul for Solo Clarinet (2000) 2. The Secret Exit (2017) 3. I Never Saw Another Butterfly (1996) (Version for Voice and Clarinet, 1996, Rev. 2018) 4. Living in the Body (2001) (Version for Voice and Clarinet, 2018) (Excerpts) 5. Winter Rain