Pina Napolitano, Franco Mezzena – Brahms the Progressive, Vol. 3 (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Pina Napolitano, Franco Mezzena - Brahms the Progressive, Vol. 3 (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz] Download

Pina Napolitano is one of the finest living interpreters of the music of the Second Viennese School” (Classical Explorer). Celebrating the 150th anniversary year of Arnold Schoenberg, in the third volume of her acclaimed “Brahms the Progressive” series, pianist Pina Napolitano ventures into chamber music with renowned violinist Franco Mezzena, continuing to demonstrate the seamless continuity between the rich romanticism of Brahms and the expressive modernism of the Second Viennese School. Schoenberg’s enigmatic and open-endedSatzfragment sets the stage for this journey bridging past and future. Brahms’ second and third sonatas for piano and violin, composed by the shores of serene Lake Thun, teeter on a thin boundary between tranquillity and restless searching, between classical form and a concision, essentiality, and motivic and contrapuntal saturation that already prelude the Second Viennese School. Their rich and ambiguous structures sandwich the fractured expressiveness of Schoenberg’sPhantasy, the centrepiece of the album, and a work that embodies continuous thematic development within a single movement. Finally, Webern’sVier Stucketake us to a radical reinterpretation of form and technique in four brief and thrilling movements.

Tracklist:

1-01. Pina Napolitano – Satzfragment einer Sonate für Geige und Klavier (Fragment of a sonata for violin and piano): Mäßige (04:37)
1-02. Pina Napolitano – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100: I. Allegro amabile (08:16)
1-03. Pina Napolitano – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100: II. Andante tranquillo – Vivace – Andante – Vivace di più – Andante – Vivace (05:45)
1-04. Pina Napolitano – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100: III. Allegretto grazioso (quasi andante) (05:36)
1-05. Pina Napolitano – Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 47 (09:50)
1-06. Pina Napolitano – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108: I. Allegro (07:36)
1-07. Pina Napolitano – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108: II. Adagio (03:44)
1-08. Pina Napolitano – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108: III. Un poco presto e con sentimento (02:53)
1-09. Pina Napolitano – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108: IV. Presto agitato (05:56)
1-10. Pina Napolitano – Vier Stücke, Op. 7: I. Sehr langsam (01:05)
1-11. Pina Napolitano – Vier Stücke, Op. 7: II. Rasch (01:39)
1-12. Pina Napolitano – Vier Stücke, Op. 7: III. Sehr langsam (01:07)
1-13. Pina Napolitano – Vier Stücke, Op. 7: IV. Bewegt (01:15)