Composer: Alexandre Levy, Francisco Mignone, Leopoldo Miguez, Marlos Nobre, Henrique Oswald
Performer: Anthony Flint, Clélia Iruzun
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Somm
Catalogue: SOMMCD0632
Release: 2021
Size: 1.24 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Oswald: Violin Sonata, Op. 36
01. I. Allegro moderato
02. II. Allegretto molto moderato
03. III. Andante molto espressivo
04. IV. Allegro con fuoco
05. Mignone: Romanza for Violin & Piano
Miguez: Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 14
06. I. Allegro
07. II. Andante espressivo
08. III. Scherzo. Presto non molto
09. IV. Vivace
10. Nobre: Poema No. 1, Op. 94 No. 1
11. Levy: Tango Brasileiro
SOMM is pleased to announce a new episode in the “Treasures from the New World”, a revelatory compendium of sonatas and duets by five Brazilian composers who defined the sound and soul of modern Latin American music.
A champion of music from her homeland, Rio de Janeiro-born Iruzun returns to Henrique Oswald (also Rio born) with his four-movement Violin Sonata in E major of 1908. Lightly laced with late-Brahmsian accents, it’s a work of striking contrasts, a brief Intermezzo and extended slow interlude framed by an opening movement of vivacious lyricism and an energetic, optimistic, fiery finale.
Leopoldo Miguez’s Violin Sonata in A major (1885) boasts similar lyrical richness while balancing evocative, nocturnal beauty, brisk confidence and a bracing sense of instrumental ensemble.Completing this volume are the melodious Poema (2002) by Marlos Nobre, one of Brazil’s most exciting contemporary composers, Souza Lima’s duet arrangement of Alexandre Levy’s Tango Brasileiro, and the haunting early miniature Romanza (1917) that prepared the ground for a later trio of substantial sonatas by Francisco Mignone, a mentor and close friend of Iruzun’s since her childhood.