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Brahms - The Violin Sonatas (Blu-ray) | Deutsche Grammophon 0734618

Brahms - The Violin Sonatas (Blu-ray)

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Cat No: 0734618

Barcode: 0044007346181

Format: Blu-ray

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 26th July 2010

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Contents

Artists

Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
Lambert Orkis (piano)

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Lieder (5), op.49
» no.4 Wiegenlied (arr. violin)
Violin Sonata no.1 in G major, op.78
Violin Sonata no.2 in A major, op.100
Violin Sonata no.3 in D minor, op.108

Artists

Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
Lambert Orkis (piano)

About

This Blu-ray disc continues the success of the Brahms CD with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis (4778767).

Never before have Mutter and Orkis seemed so joined at the hip, giving and taking, conducting dialogue, chasing each others’ thoughts . . . She plays with a new degree of maturity and depth, especially visible in the slow movements. The disc’s high point is the adagio from the first sonata, in G major, where Mutter’s gold thread is reduced to a dusky murmur before shifting through tones as subtle as they are various. Orkis’s contribution is equally vital, whether keeping pace with limpid filigree or, at the close, pedalling up a penumbra of resonance to balance Mutter’s whispers. Magical music-making, this. Elsewhere, Mutter shows that she is able to become passionately alive without shaking with neuroses. In the third sonata, in D minor, the finale lives up to Brahms’s instruction -- "presto agitato" -- but never races over the top. Throughout, speeds and dynamics are controlled with regard for the music’s inner substance, not its outward show . . . The CD’s delectable virtues also include Deutsche Grammophon’s clear, well-balanced recording. A masterly issue . . .” - The Times

As bonus material, the DVD also includes Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis in conversation in English (with subtitles), and Anne-Sophie Mutter on the Brahms Violin Sonatas that have been central to her repertoire from the start of her career.

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