Newton Classics: Schubert - Sonatas for Violin and Piano - Gidon Kremer, Oleg Maisenberg - CD

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Product Details:

• UPC: 8718247710676
• Catalog Number: 8802067
• Product Type: CD
• Label: Newton Classics
• Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
• Violinist: Gidon Kremer
• Pianist: Oleg Maisenberg
• Recording Date: 6-9 August 1991, Kirche St. Konrad, Abersee, Austria
• Original Release: © 1993 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg
• Reissue Release: © 2011 Newton Classics B.V.
• Genre: Classical / Chamber Music
• Condition: Brand New, Factory Sealed

Product Features

• Format: 1 CD
• Total Running Time: 62:19
• Tracks: 11
• Audio: DDD / STEMRA
• Packaging: Jewel case, factory shrink-wrapped
• Manufactured and printed in the Netherlands

Overview

Schubert's early violin sonatas sit in a curious place in the repertoire - regularly praised, less regularly played. Written in 1816 when Schubert was just nineteen, they carry none of the density of his late chamber works, but that lightness is precisely their character. They are music built for the pleasure of playing, shaped by a composer who understood string writing from the inside out.

Gidon Kremer recorded these pieces with Oleg Maisenberg in August 1991, in the acoustic of a small church near the Abersee lake in Austria - a setting that suits their intimacy without magnifying it into something it isn't. Kremer's tone is clean and direct. There is no excess sentiment here, which is the right call: Schubert's A minor and G minor sonatas need a player who trusts the melodic lines to carry their own weight.

Maisenberg is a collaborator of the best kind - present without dominating, responsive without trailing. The piano writing in these pieces is genuinely equal to the violin, and the balance between the two instruments throughout this recording reflects that.

Originally released on Deutsche Grammophon in 1993, this Newton Classics reissue brings the recording back into circulation at an accessible price point. The sound has held up well.

Interesting Facts

• Schubert composed all three violin sonatinas (D384, D385, D408) within a single year, 1816, when he was 19 - remarkably assured writing for a teenager who had not yet published a single major work.
• The works were published posthumously under the title "Sonatinas" in 1836, eight years after Schubert's death, which is why the D384 on this disc carries that designation while D385 and D408 are titled "Sonata."
• Gidon Kremer was a student of David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory and won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 1967 - one of the most competitive violin prizes in the world.
• Oleg Maisenberg studied in Odessa and Vienna and has maintained a decades-long chamber music partnership with Kremer that produced some of the most admired violin-piano recordings of the late 20th century.
• The recording venue, Kirche St. Konrad near Abersee in the Salzkammergut region of Austria, sits in the same lake district where Schubert himself spent summers - a geographical coincidence that feels appropriate for this repertoire.

Track Listing

Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 in A minor, D385

1. I. Allegro moderato - 10:39
2. II. Andante - 7:10
3. III. Menuetto: Allegro - 2:36
4. IV. Allegro - 4:42

Sonata for violin and piano No. 3 in G minor, D408

1. I. Allegro giusto - 7:32
2. II. Andante - 7:47
3. III. Menuetto (Allegro vivace) - 2:49
4. IV. Allegro moderato - 5:15

Sonatina for violin and piano No. 1 in D, D384

1. I. Allegro molto - 4:41
2. II. Andante - 4:58
3. III. Allegro vivace - 3:55

Total timing: 62:19

Publishers

Originally recorded for and released by Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg (© 1993). Reissued by Newton Classics B.V. (© 2011). Manufactured and printed in the Netherlands.

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