Schumann Sonatas For Violin And Piano

Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen - Brahms: Works for Violin & Piano, Vol. 1 (2019)

Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen - Brahms: Works for Violin & Piano, Vol. 1 (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 271 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 161 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:05:03
Classical | Label: BIS Records

Asked the question ‘How many sonatas for violin and piano did Johannes Brahms compose?’, many lovers of chamber music would probably answer three, and maybe also add their respective keys and opus numbers. When pressed, a number of them would also remember the so-called F.A.E. Sonata, a collaborative effort by the young Brahms, Albert Dietrich and their mentor Robert Schumann. But very few would probably think of the two Opus 120 sonatas, composed in 1894 for clarinet (or viola) and piano, but a year later published in the composer’s own version for the violin. As the range of the B flat clarinet goes a fourth lower than that of the violin, Brahms had been forced to make considerable revisions to the clarinet part – which in turned entailed changes in the piano part, and consequently the printing of a new piano score. The seasoned team of violinist Ulf Wallin and pianist Roland Pöntinen have now decided to record all the Brahms sonatas, and the results are being released on two albums, the first one including the first of the ‘official’ sonatas, No. 1 in G major, Op. 78, the F minor Sonata from Op. 120 and Brahms’s Scherzo from the F.A.E. Sonata. Wallin and Pöntinen round off the programme with transcriptions of two of Brahms’s more lyrical songs.
Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen - Brahms: Works for Violin & Piano, Vol. 1 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen - Brahms: Works for Violin & Piano, Vol. 1 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 64:57 minutes | 1.16 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Asked the question ‘How many sonatas for violin and piano did Johannes Brahms compose?’, many lovers of chamber music would probably answer three, and maybe also add their respective keys and opus numbers. When pressed, a number of them would also remember the so-called F.A.E. Sonata, a collaborative effort by the young Brahms, Albert Dietrich and their mentor Robert Schumann. But very few would probably think of the two Opus 120 sonatas, composed in 1894 for clarinet (or viola) and piano, but a year later published in the composer’s own version for the violin. As the range of the B flat clarinet goes a fourth lower than that of the violin, Brahms had been forced to make considerable revisions to the clarinet part – which in turned entailed changes in the piano part, and consequently the printing of a new piano score.
Augustin Hadelich & Joyce Yang - Franck, Kurtág, Previn & Schumann: Music for Violin & Piano (2016) [24/96]

Augustin Hadelich & Joyce Yang - Franck, Kurtág, Previn & Schumann: Music for Violin & Piano (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 67:18 minutes | 1.14 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Violinist Augustin Hadelich and pianist Joyce Yang, two of the most esteemed artists of their generation, pair for a program that mirrors their many acclaimed joint recital appearances, with works by Franck, Kurtág, Previn and Schumann.
Jonathan Aasgaard, Martin Roscoe - Brahms: Complete Music for Cello and Piano (2014)

Jonathan Aasgaard, Martin Roscoe - Brahms: Complete Music for Cello and Piano (2014)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 533 MB | 02:09:44
Genre: Classical | Label: Avie Records

This release by Norwegian cellist Jonathan Aasgaard (the principal cellist of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra) and British pianist Martin Roscoe purports to be a complete recording of Brahms' music for cello and piano. In fact it's padded with quite a few other things that have little or nothing to do with Brahms other than the fact that he composed the original music.
Jonathan Aasgaard, Martin Roscoe - Brahms: Complete Music for Cello and Piano (2014)

Jonathan Aasgaard, Martin Roscoe - Brahms: Complete Music for Cello and Piano (2014)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 533 MB | 02:09:44
Genre: Classical | Label: Avie Records

This release by Norwegian cellist Jonathan Aasgaard (the principal cellist of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra) and British pianist Martin Roscoe purports to be a complete recording of Brahms' music for cello and piano. In fact it's padded with quite a few other things that have little or nothing to do with Brahms other than the fact that he composed the original music.
Augustin Hadelich & Joyce Yang - Franck, Kurtág, Previn & Schumann: Music for Violin & Piano (2016)

Augustin Hadelich & Joyce Yang - Franck, Kurtág, Previn & Schumann: Music for Violin & Piano (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 01:97:25 | 298 Mb
Classical | Label: Avie Records

Grammy Award-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich is one of the most impressive musicians of his generation. Pianist Joyce Yang, youngest ever medalist of the Van Cliburn Competition, is a consistently electrifying presence on stage. Together these young artists produce a plethora of pyrotechnics and an abundance of musical imagination. This unique recital program pairs two 19th-century repertory staples – Sonatas by Franck and Schumann – with 20th-century fare by Kurtág and Previn, a combination Augustin and Joyce have performed to widespread acclaim in their frequent joint performances.
Anthony Marwood, Susan Tomes - Robert Schumann: Violin Sonatas, Three Romances (2001)

Anthony Marwood, Susan Tomes - Robert Schumann: Violin Sonatas, Three Romances (2001)
dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 242 Mb | Total time: 58:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67180 | Recorded: 2000

Schumann told Wasielewski that he had composed his Violin Sonata in A minor at a time when he was 'very angry with certain people'. Whether or not that anger found its outlet in creative energy, he managed to complete the entire work within the space of less than a week. The Sonata is alone among Schumann's symphonically conceived chamber works in being cast in three movements, rather than four. The relative concision results from the fact that Schumann's middle movement takes a leaf out of Beethoven's book, and combines the functions of slow movement and scherzo. No less intensely passionate than the A minor Sonata is the Violin Sonata in D minor Op 121.
Anthony Marwood, Susan Tomes - Robert Schumann: Violin Sonatas, Three Romances (2001)

Anthony Marwood, Susan Tomes - Robert Schumann: Violin Sonatas, Three Romances (2001)
dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 242 Mb | Total time: 58:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67180 | Recorded: 2000

Schumann told Wasielewski that he had composed his Violin Sonata in A minor at a time when he was 'very angry with certain people'. Whether or not that anger found its outlet in creative energy, he managed to complete the entire work within the space of less than a week. The Sonata is alone among Schumann's symphonically conceived chamber works in being cast in three movements, rather than four. The relative concision results from the fact that Schumann's middle movement takes a leaf out of Beethoven's book, and combines the functions of slow movement and scherzo. No less intensely passionate than the A minor Sonata is the Violin Sonata in D minor Op 121.
Carolin Widmann, Dénes Várjon - Schumann: The Violin Sonatas (2008)

Carolin Widmann, Dénes Várjon - Schumann: The Violin Sonatas (2008)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 362 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 185 MB | 01:11:39
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series

If you thought violinist Gidon Kremer and pianist Martha Argerich's 1986 DG recording of Schumann's two published violin sonatas was the last word in overwhelming passion in the German Romantic composer's late chamber music, try this 2008 ECM disc of the two published sonatas plus the unpublished sonata by violinist Carolin Widmann and pianist Dénes Várjon.
Jennifer Pike, Tom Poster - Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann: Violin Sonatas, Clara Schumann: Three Romances (2013)

Jennifer Pike, Tom Poster - Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann: Violin Sonatas, Clara Schumann: Three Romances (2013)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers + Digital Booklet | 54:22 | 232 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHAN 10762

Jennifer Pike, who won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition at the tender age of 12, appears to have survived the perils of prodigyhood and entered her early twenties with musical intelligence intact. Here she offers a terrific program of music from the middle of the 19th century; all of it is abstract, but it brings vividly to mind the crucial trio of creative figures who met in the early 1850s: the ailing Robert Schumann, his musically frustrated wife Clara, and the young Johannes Brahms, mooning over the latter.