Composer: Jean-Marie Leclair
Performer: Laurence Cummings, Jonathan Manson, Adrian Butterfield
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8572866
Release: 2013
Size: 450 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 2, No. 1
01. I. Adagio
02. II. Allegro ma poco
03. III. Sarabanda: Largo
04. IV. Allegro
Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 2, No. 2
05. I. Adagio
06. II. Allegro ma poco
07. III. Adagio
08. IV. Allegro ma non troppo
Violin Sonata in C major, Op. 2, No. 3
09. I. Adagio
10. II. Allegro
11. III. Largo
12. IV. Giga: Allegro ma poco
Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 2, No. 4
13. I. Adagio
14. II. Allegro ma non troppo
15. III. Aria: Gratioso
16. IV. Allegro assai
Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 2, No. 5
17. I. Andante
18. II. Allegro ma poco
19. III. Gavotta: Gratioso
20. IV. Allegro assai
Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 2, No. 8
21. I. Adagio
22. II. Allegro
23. III. Sarabanda: Largo
24. IV. Allegro assai
The joys of Jean-Marie Leclair’s Violin Sonatas Op. 2, published in 1728, five years after his first book of sonatas, can be found in the beauty of their melodic invention, and their expressive and surprising harmonies. Leclair takes us on unexpected journeys of landscape and scenery in his slow movements and excites with Italian energy and fire in the fast. Adrian Butterfield’s three Naxos volumes of Leclair’s Violin Sonatas, Op. 1 were acclaimed as being “shaped by exquisite phrasing and studded with lovely Italianate ornamentation… so much to savour”. (Gramophone on 8570890)