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For the Record, Op. 369: Neave Trio; PatKop; Leonkoro Quartet; Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Welcome to "For the Record," Violinist.com's weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists and other classical musicians. We hope it helps you keep track of your favorite artists, as well as find some new ones to add to your listening! Click on the highlighted links to obtain each album or learn more about the artists.
The Neave Trio. Photo by Titilayo Ayangade.
In Her Hands
Neave Trio
Anna Williams, violin
Mikhail Veselov, cello
Eri Nakamura, piano
The Neave Trio presents a program of piano trios celebrating three women composers in the early modern era: Clara Schumann, Dora Pejacevic, and Cécile Chaminade. The album continues the Trio’s longstanding commitment to uplifting historically underrepresented voices in the chamber music repertoire. BELOW: Trailer for the recording.
Márton Illés: Bowed Spaces
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Nicolas Altstaedt, cello
SWR Experimentalstudio; Münchener Kammerorchester
Born in Budapest in 1975 and based in Germany, composer Márton Illés studied with Detlev Müller-Siemens and Wolfgang Rihm. In 2020, he composed the violin concerto "Vont-tér" for Patricia Kopatchinskaja, a long-time partner who performs his music with total commitment. "Sírt-tér," "space filled with tears," is a cello concerto, performed by cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. The program is rounded out by "Rajzok I," which involves tuning the strings of 24 instruments to different quarter-tone intervals, and "Three Sketches," in which electronic music blends with the sound of the violin BELOW: Patricia Kopatchinskaja on Ma´rton Ille´s' Vont-te´r.
The Leonkoro Quartet, founded in 2019, presents an album dedicated to Vienna and its influence on the musical landscape of the early 20th century. Alban Berg completed his Suite lyrique in 1926. The movements of Erwin Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet make up a surreal dance suite, from the four-beat waltz of the Alla Valse viennese to the strangely accented polka of Alla Czeca to the pastiche finale Alla Tarantella. Anton Webern’s Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 was the first quartet work he composed in a freely atonal style. BELOW: Trailer for the album.
Reflection
Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin
Huw Watkins, piano
This new album from violin and piano duo Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins centers on the title work, Oliver Knussen’s Reflection, composed for the duo and the first piece Knussen had written in eight years, as well as what proved to be his last completed work. Waley-Cohen says that it “has come to be one of my most cherished companions over the last nearly 10 years." It also includes Watkins’s new Violin Sonata, Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, and Stravinsky’s Duo Concertant. BELOW: Oliver Knussen's Reflection, Op. 31a
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You might also like:
- For the Record, Op. 368: Trio Wanderer, JACK Quartet, Piatti Quartet, BCOC
- For the Record, Op. 367: Renaud Capucon, Mandolinist Julien Martineau, Hsu-Cho Duo
- For the Record, Op. 366: Eldbjørg Hemsing, Lisa Batiashvili, Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Marjorie Hayward
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