Composer: Johannes Brahms, Joseph Joachim
Performer: Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA67663
Release: 2008
Size: 316 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano)
01. No. 1 in G Minor. Allegro molto
02. No. 2 in D Minor. Allegro non assai
03. No. 3 in F Major. Allegretto
04. No. 4 in B Minor. Poco sostenuto
05. No. 5 in G Minor. Allegro
06. No. 6 in B-Flat Major. Vivace
07. No. 7 in A Major. Allegretto
08. No. 8 in A Minor. Presto
09. No. 9 in E Minor. Allegro non troppo
10. No. 10 in G Major. Presto
11. No. 11 in D Minor. Poco andante
12. No. 12 in D Minor. Presto
13. No. 13 in D Major. Andantino grazioso
14. No. 14 in D Minor. Un poco andante
15. No. 15 in A Major. Allegretto grazioso
16. No. 16 in G Minor. Con moto
17. No. 17 in F-Sharp Minor. Andantino
18. No. 18 in D Major. Molto vivace
19. No. 19 in A Minor. Allegretto
20. No. 20 in D Minor. Poco allegretto
21. No. 21 in E Minor. Vivace
Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano)
22. Introduction. Allegretto
23. Theme
24. Var. 1
25. Var. 2
26. Var. 3
27. Var. 4. Un pochettino più vivo
28. Var. 5
29. Var. 6
30. Var. 7
31. Var. 8
32. Var. 9
33. Var. 10
34. Var. 11
35. Var. 12
36. Var. 13. Poco animato
37. Var. 14
38. Var. 15. Molto più moderato (Andantino)
39. Var. 16. Quasi doppio (Allegro)
40. Var. 17. Vivace
41. Var. 18
42. Finale. Allegro marcato – Poco animato
The forty-year friendship between Brahms and Joseph Joachim, violinist and composer, was one of the most significant and fruitful relationships in nineteenth-century music. Their admiration of each other’s artistry was profound and unwavering, and bore sustained creative fruit on Brahms’s side of which his Violin Concerto and Double Concerto are only the most famous examples.
Joachim’s transcriptions of Brahms’s famous Hungarian Dances – originally written for piano duet or solo piano – are technically challenging for any violinist, and superbly idiomatic, constituting a kind of gypsy ‘Art of the Violin’. They represent the summit of Brahms’s ‘Hungarian’ art, and Joachim’s powers of transcription match them with violin writing of the greatest fastidiousness and authentic feeling. The brilliant Hagai Shaham, acclaimed for his recordings of Hubay, is the ideal performer.