Skip to content
flac download » Classical Downloads » Schickedanz, Breidenbach: Friedrich Gernsheim – Complete Violin Sonatas (FLAC)

Schickedanz, Breidenbach: Friedrich Gernsheim – Complete Violin Sonatas (FLAC)

Schickedanz, Breidenbach: Friedrich Gernsheim - Complete Violin Sonatas (FLAC)

Composer: Friedrich Gernsheim
Performer: Christoph Schickedanz, Ernst Breidenbach
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555330-2
Release: 2021
Size: 665 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

CD 01
Violin Violin Sonata No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 4
01. I. Andante con moto
02. II. Allegretto scherzando
03. III. Allegro

Violin Violin Sonata in E Minor
04. I. Allegro con fuoco
05. II. Adagio ma non troppo
06. III. Scherzo. Allegro assai
07. IV. Finale. Molto Allegro e vivace

Violin Sonata No. 3 in F Major, Op. 64
08. I. Allegro con brio
09. II. Allegro agitato
10. III. Andante molto espressivo
11. IV. Moderato e sempre cantabile

CD 02
Violin Sonata No. 4 in G Major, Op. 85
01. I. Allegro moderato assai
02. II. Andantino appassionato
03. III. Allegro con brio

Introduction & Allegro appassionato for Violin & Piano, Op. 38
04. I. Introduction
05. II. Allegro appassionato

06. Andante for Violin & Piano in F Major

Violin Sonata No. 2 in C Major, Op. 50
07. I. Allegro moderato
08. II. Andante sostenuto
09. III. Allegro energico

For the biographer Karl Holl chamber music was ‘Friedrich Gernsheim’s very special artistic domain’. The composer again and again returned to this field during the course of his life, from his beginnings in Leipzig and Paris to his later Berlin years. The violin sonatas in particular stand out in this group within his oeuvre because they, more than any other genre, document his compositional development. Things began with the fourteen-year-old’s Sonata in E minor, composed for exercise purposes in Leipzig and heard here for the first time on CD, and continued by way of his op. 4, his first full-fledged contribution to this genre, to the mature opp. 50, 64, and 85, with thirteen to fourteen years separating the composition of each of these works. The fourth sonata, a work dedicated to Henri Marteau, may be regarded as the high point of Gernsheim’s duo oeuvre: here his contrapuntal line of thought, something that he had always cultivated, extends over the entire composition.

Leave a Reply