布拉姆斯: 五首小提琴奏鳴曲第一集 巫魯夫．瓦林 小提琴 羅蘭．潘提納 鋼琴 Ulf Wallin & Roland Pontinen / Brahms: The 5 Sonatas for Violin & Piano, Vol.1

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巫魯夫．瓦林 小提琴
羅蘭．潘提納 鋼琴

Ulf Wallin, violin; Roland Pontinen, piano
 

Asked the question ‘How many sonatas for violin and piano did Johannes Brahms compose?’, many lovers of chamber music would probably answer three, and maybe also add their respective keys and opus numbers. When pressed, a number of them would also remember the so-called F.A.E. Sonata,a collaborative effort by the young Brahms, Albert Dietrich and their mentor Robert Schumann. But very few would probably think of the two Opus 120 sonatas, composed in 1894 for clarinet (or viola) and piano, but a year later published in the composer’s own version for the violin. As the range of the B flat clarinet goes a fourth lower than that of the violin, Brahms had been forced to make considerable revisions to the clarinet part – which in turned entailed changes in the piano part, and consequently the printing of a new piano score.

The seasoned team of violinist Ulf Wallin and pianist Roland Pontinen have now decided to record allthe Brahms sonatas, and the results are being released on two discs, the first one including the first of the ‘official’ sonatas, No. 1 in G major, Op. 78, the F minor Sonata from Op. 120 and Brahms’s Scherzofrom the F.A.E. Sonata. Wallin and Pontinen round off the programme with transcriptions of two of Brahms’s more lyrical songs.