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With the release of each new album, violinist Arabella Steinbacher proves again and again that she not only performs an impressively wide and diverse repertoire, but that she commands different facets of it with incredible precision. This installment features works for violin and piano by French composers Fauré, Poulenc, and Ravel, whose output traverses three generations of wonderfully contrasting music. Steinbacher opens with the rapturous Poulenc sonata, a piece which showcases the amazing amount of controlled power and agility of her right arm. Contrasting completely with its light, effete, graceful qualities is Fauré's A major sonata, in which Steinbacher completely changes character to match the more fluid, hazy aesthetic. The greatest stylistic contrast comes in the Ravel sonata. Here, Steinbacher's tone and pacing give listeners the impression that she grew up listening to nothing more than jazz and blues. The album ends with a bang -- Ravel's Tzigane -- which allows Steinbacher one last opportunity to prove she is not only a master of musicianship, but possesses a fiery, dazzling technique on top of it. Her collaboration with pianist Robert Kulek is nicely unified and pleasingly balanced, a true example of like-minded chamber music at its finest.
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Violin Sonata, FP 119 (Francis Poulenc)
Arabella Steinbacher, Violin - Robert Kulek, Piano - Francis Poulenc, Composer
(C) 2016 Orfeo (P) 2016 Orfeo
Arabella Steinbacher, Violin - Robert Kulek, Piano - Francis Poulenc, Composer
(C) 2016 Orfeo (P) 2016 Orfeo
Arabella Steinbacher, Violin - Robert Kulek, Piano - Francis Poulenc, Composer
(C) 2016 Orfeo (P) 2016 Orfeo
Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13 (Gabriel Fauré)
Arabella Steinbacher, Violin - Robert Kulek, Piano - Gabriel Fauré, Composer
(C) 2016 Orfeo (P) 2016 Orfeo
Arabella Steinbacher, Violin - Robert Kulek, Piano - Gabriel Fauré, Composer
(C) 2016 Orfeo (P) 2016 Orfeo
Arabella Steinbacher, Violin - Robert Kulek, Piano - Gabriel Fauré, Composer
(C) 2016 Orfeo (P) 2016 Orfeo
Arabella Steinbacher, Violin - Robert Kulek, Piano - Gabriel Fauré, Composer
(C) 2016 Orfeo (P) 2016 Orfeo
Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, M. 77 (Maurice Ravel)
Arabella Steinbacher, Violin - Robert Kulek, Piano - Maurice Ravel, Composer
(C) 2016 Orfeo (P) 2016 Orfeo
Arabella Steinbacher, Violin - Robert Kulek, Piano - Maurice Ravel, Composer
(C) 2016 Orfeo (P) 2016 Orfeo
Arabella Steinbacher, Violin - Robert Kulek, Piano - Maurice Ravel, Composer
(C) 2016 Orfeo (P) 2016 Orfeo
Tzigane, M. 76 (Maurice Ravel)
Arabella Steinbacher, Violin - Robert Kulek, Piano - Maurice Ravel, Composer
(C) 2016 Orfeo (P) 2016 Orfeo
Album review
With the release of each new album, violinist Arabella Steinbacher proves again and again that she not only performs an impressively wide and diverse repertoire, but that she commands different facets of it with incredible precision. This installment features works for violin and piano by French composers Fauré, Poulenc, and Ravel, whose output traverses three generations of wonderfully contrasting music. Steinbacher opens with the rapturous Poulenc sonata, a piece which showcases the amazing amount of controlled power and agility of her right arm. Contrasting completely with its light, effete, graceful qualities is Fauré's A major sonata, in which Steinbacher completely changes character to match the more fluid, hazy aesthetic. The greatest stylistic contrast comes in the Ravel sonata. Here, Steinbacher's tone and pacing give listeners the impression that she grew up listening to nothing more than jazz and blues. The album ends with a bang -- Ravel's Tzigane -- which allows Steinbacher one last opportunity to prove she is not only a master of musicianship, but possesses a fiery, dazzling technique on top of it. Her collaboration with pianist Robert Kulek is nicely unified and pleasingly balanced, a true example of like-minded chamber music at its finest.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 01:14:07
- Main artists: Arabella Steinbacher Robert Kulek
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Orfeo
- Area: France
- Genre: Classical Chamber Music Duets
- Period: Modern Style
(C) 2016 Orfeo (P) 2016 Orfeo
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