Schumann - Violin sonata n°1 - Kagan / Virsaladze

Robert Schumann

Sonata for violin & piano n°1 op.105

I. Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck 0:00
II. Allegretto 7:02
III. Lebhaft 10:37

Oleg Kagan
Elisso Virsaladze
Live recording, Moscow, 20.V.1988

[vivienmerchant]

Simply the best, the best, the best!!! How I WISH I had been able to see these two marvellous artists live in concert, especially in Schumann. They play utterly from the heart, but tempered by great taste and and by such refinement of technique. Such sound, such shape, such direct commitment. 

[gerardbegni]

This work is poorly known, but in my opinion it is one of the best piano-violin sonatas ever written. Listen for intance to Beethoven, both for instnce in the two best known: in the Kreutzer and 'spring' sonatas perhaps they have higher architectural ambitions ane expressive goals: 'revisiting Mozart' in the 'Spring', underlying drama in the 'Kreutzer', but thay do not have that kind of interior fire without viruoso flames. Brahms' sonatas writing is generally more compact, and the feeling is less intense. Perhaps, in spite of his architectural ambitions (cyclic form), Franck's sonata has such an internal intensity.. For sure, the second sonata is also a great masterpice, but it is longer, perheps more ambitious, ans one may have some secret preferece for the expresssive equilibrium of this first one. Note that a third one has benn recontituted. Actually, a movement of this sonata ahd been used in a three-author sonata (with Brahms and Joachimand sometimesl to play Schumann's movement alone. (the same for Brahms). This third sonata was actually entirely composed but discarded ( as many other works among which the Violo in Concerto) by Clara, Brahms anfd Joachim in their edition of posthumous Schumann's works. You can find it on Youtube.

[alanbash]

Greatest Recording of this Schumann Sonata ever made !!!!...Schumann’s unbounded Passion captured here for us to enjoy again and again...Don’t watch the News on TV....but listen to the Sound of Soul will Thank You !

[notaire]

Wunderschöne live Aufführung dieser kompakten und fein komponierten Sonate im flüssigen Tempo mit seidigem Ton der Violine und anmütigem Anschlag des Klaviers. Der intime und perfekt synchronisierte Dialog zwischen den beiden Virtuosen ist immer noch unvergleichlich. Einfach wunderbar!

[antiquet]

This is such an interesting interpretation of this piece, unlike any other I've heard. They play it in an older style, I would say. It sounds very much like the old recordings of Kreisler.

[anb]

Watch and discover this greatest Georgian pianist Elisso Virsaladze. She is from the old Georgian conservatory school. Watch in YouTube

[MrGer]

BEAUTIFUL ! ! ! Thank you for posting !

[c.g.marseille]

ach, . mijn hemel...… verder kom ik niet