Composer: Niels Wilhelm Gade
Performer: Maria-Elisabeth Lott, Sontraud Speidel
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: ARS Produktion
Release: 2021
Size: 795 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 6
01. I. Allegro di molto
02. II. Andante con moto
03. III. Allegro con espressione
Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 21
04. I. Adagio – Allegro di molto
05. II. Larghetto – Allegro vivace
06. III. Adagio – Allegro moderato – Allegro molto vivo
Violin Sonata No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 59
07. I. Allegro con fuoco
08. II. Allegro non troppo e scherzando
09. III. Romanze. Andantino con moto
10. IV. Finale. Allegro vivace
Volkstänze, Op. 62
11. No. 2, Allegro scherzando
“This is a splendid fellow and musician” – with this quote Robert Schumann characterized the then 26-year-old Danish composer-colleague Niels Wilhelm Gade in a letter of January 5, 1844 to his Dutch friend Johannes Verhulst. The works on this release are testimonies of three different creative periods of Gade: an early work is the first Sonata in A Major, Op. 6 (dedicated to Clara Schumann) – the second Sonata in D minor, Op. 21, (dedicated to Robert Schumann) was composed in 1850 – the third Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 59 (dedicated to Wilma Normann-Neruda) belongs to the circle of his late compositions. Among Gade’s last works is the collection Volkstänze im nordischen Charakter, Op. 62, written in 1886 for the great violinist Joseph Joachim.