Composer(s): Raff, Joachim
Label: Naxos
Genre: Chamber Music
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: 8.573842
Barcode: 747313384273
Release Date: 11/2019

RAFF, J.: Violin Sonatas (Complete), Vol. 2 - Nos. 3, 4, 5 (Kayaleh, J.-F. Schneider)

Joachim Raff enjoyed enormous prestige with a reputation as Germany’s leading symphonist of his time. He also wrote music for the violin, an instrument he had mastered when young, and for which he wrote with great sympathy. The enduring success of his first two sonatas (8.573841) prompted him to write three more: the charming, genial and joyous Sonata in D major, the symphonically conceived Sonata in G minor which, uniquely for Raff’s violin works, is cast in a single movement, and a Sonata in C minor that, while often melancholic in tone, is still suffused with his trademark lyricism.

Tracklist

Raff, Joachim
Kayaleh, Laurence (violin)
Schneider, Jean-Fabien (piano)
1I. Allegro09:08
Kayaleh, Laurence (violin)
Schneider, Jean-Fabien (piano)
2II. Allegro assai03:54
Kayaleh, Laurence (violin)
Schneider, Jean-Fabien (piano)
3III. Andante quasi larghetto07:18
Kayaleh, Laurence (violin)
Schneider, Jean-Fabien (piano)
4IV. Allegro vivace05:32
Kayaleh, Laurence (violin)
Schneider, Jean-Fabien (piano)
Kayaleh, Laurence (violin)
Schneider, Jean-Fabien (piano)
5Violin Sonata No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 129, "Chromatic Sonata in One Movement"17:02
Kayaleh, Laurence (violin)
Schneider, Jean-Fabien (piano)
Kayaleh, Laurence (violin)
Schneider, Jean-Fabien (piano)
6I. Allegro patetico08:53
Kayaleh, Laurence (violin)
Schneider, Jean-Fabien (piano)
7II. Andante08:57
Kayaleh, Laurence (violin)
Schneider, Jean-Fabien (piano)
8III. Presto04:11
Kayaleh, Laurence (violin)
Schneider, Jean-Fabien (piano)
9IV. Allegro agitato07:55
Kayaleh, Laurence (violin)
Schneider, Jean-Fabien (piano)

Total Playing Time: 01:12:50

Kayaleh, Laurence
Schneider, Jean-Fabien
Joachim Raff