Linus Roth
Solo Sonatas for Violin nos. 1 - 3
- Type SACD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917268829
- Catalog number CC 72688
- Release date 06 May 2016
About the album
Just a decade ago the name “Mieczysław Weinberg” drew a blank from music lovers. If you went into a record store you either didn’t find a dedicated index card with his name on it, or else five differently spelled ones. Weinberg’s music and its surge to a more general acknowledgment is the surest sign that there are still unearthed geniuses among composers out there, whose unearthing can enrich our musical diet and change our perception of the musical past. This disc continues Linus Roth’s discovery and exploration of Weinberg, which started with learning about, reading, playing and recording the Sonatas for Violin and Piano and has most recently led to his initiating the International Mieczysław Weinberg Society. He has since recorded Weinberg’s works for violin and orchestra; here he is back with chamber music: Weinberg’s three unaccompanied violin sonatas, whose dates of composition are 1964, 1967 and 1978. This last Third Sonata, op.123, is the most challenging and important: somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes long, it provides challenges all of its own. Apart from its share of technical challenges, its one-movement structure asks for continuous play. This sonata is dedicated to the memory of his father Shmil Weinberg, who was a composer and conductor at the Yiddish theater in Kishinev. Given that Weinberg knew, that his father had been murdered in the Holocaust, the sonata isn’t easy listening. It is a challenge for performers and listeners alike: it demands and deserves dedication on the part of the listener, whom it rewards eventually by revealing a surprising, raw tenderness behind the veneer of thorns.
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113 Fantastic Dances (transcribed for Violin and Piano by Harry Glickman) Dance no. 1: Allegretto
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12Solo Violin Sonata no. 1 op. 82 Adagio - Allegro - Adagio
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13Solo Violin Sonata no. 1 op. 82 Andante
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14Solo Violin Sonata no. 1 op. 82 Allegretto
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15Solo Violin Sonata no. 1 op. 82 Lento
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16Solo Violin Sonata no. 1 op. 82 Presto - Adagio
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173 Fantastic Dances (transcribed for Violin and Piano by Harry Glickman) Dance no. 2: Andantino
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18Solo Violin Sonata no. 2 op. 95 Monody
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19Solo Violin Sonata no. 2 op. 95 Andantino grazioso
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110Solo Violin Sonata no. 2 op. 95 Presto agitato
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111Solo Violin Sonata no. 2 op. 95 Andantino non tanto
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112Solo Violin Sonata no. 2 op. 95 Allegretto leggiero
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113Solo Violin Sonata no. 2 op. 95 Lento affettuoso
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114Solo Violin Sonata no. 2 op. 95 Vivace marcato
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1153 Fantastic Dances (transcribed for Violin and Piano by Harry Glickman) Dance no. 3: Allegretto
01:03 -
116Solo Violin Sonata no. 3 op. 126
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Linus Roth tells us all about his upcoming album: an inspiring video!
27-09-2016
After the intimate and at the same time very intense album with solo sonatas for violin by Weinberg, violinist Linus Roth is in a perfect flow, because he releases another new album! Again with Russian composers: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto op. 35 and Dmitri Shostakovich' Violin Concerto no.2 op. 129 which Linus Roth has recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Sanderling.
In an breathtaking video Linus Roth ...