Schubert: Sonatas for Violin & Piano Op. 137 Nos. 1, 2, 3 & Op. 162
10/9/2007, 15 Tracks, 1:18:34
Featuring
Andrew Manze
Richard Egarr
Franz Schubert
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Performer Biography
Andrew Manze, the violinist on this album, is a Cambridge Classicist by training and specializes in repertoire from 1610 to 1830.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Schubert's music often sounds deceptively simple, but contains a rich world of emotion hidden within its melodies.
Composition History
The performers on this album prefer to use Schubert's original title, "Sonata," for these pieces, as they were later renamed "Sonatinas" and "Duo" upon publication.
Composer Biography
Schubert was deeply in love with Therese Grob, a family friend who was the solo soprano in his successful 1814 Mass performance, when he wrote his first three violin sonatas.
Performer Biography
Richard Egarr, the fortepianist, has worked with a wide range of keyboards and repertoire, from 15th-century organ music to modern piano works by Berg and Maxwell Davies.
Composer Biography
By the age of 19, Schubert was already a veteran composer with several hundred works to his credit, including quartets, overtures, symphonies, liturgical works, operettas, and many songs and dances.
Compositional Technique
Schubert's second Sonata, D.385, explores the widest possible intervals for violin and piano, with leaps that exceed the human voice, as if reveling in uncharted musical territory.
