Composer: Krzysztof Penderecki
Performer: Anne-Sophie Mutter
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalogue: 4835163
Release: 2018
Size: 358 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
La Follia Per Violino Solo
01. Andante
02. Var. I Tempo I
03. Var. II Allegro giocoso alla polacca
04. Var. III Adagio, ma non troppo
05. Var. IV Tempo I
06. Var. V Allegro con brio
07. Var. VI Tempo I
08. Var. VII Allegretto
09. Var. VIII Adagio tanquillo
10. Var. IX Tempo I – più mosso – poco pesante – Tempo I
11. Duo concertante
Sonata No. 2 per violino e pianoforte
12. I. Larghetto
13. II. Allegretto scherzando
14. III. Notturno
15. IV. Allegro
16. V. Andante
Metamorphosen, Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 2
17. I. Allegro ma non troppo
18. II. Allegretto
19. III. Molto
20. IV. Vivace
21. V. Scherzando
22. VI. Andante con moto
This recording of works for violin and piano/orchestra by Krzysztof Penderecki marks and celebrates the long and fruitful cooperation and friendship between Anne-Sophie Mutter and Krzysztof Penderecki on the occasion of his 85th birthday on 23 November 2018.
Deutsche Grammophon is releasing a double album showcasing a number of the composer’s works for violin and piano or violin and orchestra, including La Follia, Duo concertante, Sonata No.2 and Metamorphosen. All of them feature the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, whose name is closely associated with that of Penderecki. Penderecki dedicated his Violin Sonata No.2 for Anne-Sophie Mutter, out of admiration for her interpretative skills, as have many other contemporary composers. The piece consists of five parts and is almost as long as the composer’s concertos for violin. Anne-Sophie premiered the work together with Lambert Orkis, her longtime musician partner, at the Barbican in London on 29 April 2000 and has recorded it now for the first time. The recording of Duo concertante includes the young bass player Roman Patkoló as Anne-Sophie Mutter’s partner. Patkoló was a student of the Anne-Sophie Mutter foundation.
All these Penderecki works have been commissioned by Anne-Sophie Mutter and are duly dedicated to her (as well as to double bass player Roman Patkoló in the case of the 2010 Duo concertante for violin and double bass), this is thus doing them justice to gather them under the same helm. We go crescendo, from La Follia for solo violin from 2013, a series of variations, up to the Violin Sonata No. 2, « Metamorphosen » from 1995—conducted here by the composer himself—to the already mentioned Duo concertante and the Sonata for violin and piano from 1999. As so many composers from his era—let’s remember he was born in 1933—Penderecki has taken the “backward path”, starting as a composer in the path underlined by serialism, before straying away from it to come back to a much more melodic language, almost tonal and even sometimes Post-Romantic. For such a talented violinist as Anne-Sophie Mutter, fed with beauty and virtuosity, these works represent both an endless renewal and a constant challenge, while allowing her to develop her sonority and her passionate lyricism. Let’s note that these Metamorphosen have been recorded in 1997, and the partition’s ink had barely had time to dry. Incidentally, the other recordings have all been close to the writing date, underlining the emotional and artistic closeness of the two characters.