Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick – Prokofiev – Works for Violin and Piano (2023) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

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Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Michael Korstick – Prokofiev – Works for Violin and Piano (2023)
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Thomas Albertus Irnberger, the Salzburg violinist, who performs worldwide, and Michael Korstick, piano, internationally known for his Beethoven interpretations, release works by Sergei Prokofiev for violin and piano on this double SACD. With unmatched precision in ensemble play and critically acclaimed virtuosity, the performers present the two sonatas for violin and piano, Op. 80 and Op. 94a, the “Five Melodies, Op. 35a” and “Five Pieces from Cinderella”. Also included on this recording is the Sonata for Violin solo, Op. 115. Irnberger dedicates this recording to Igor Oistrakh, who was born in Ukraine and died in 2021, from whom he received important impulses for his own playing, and whose father David Oistrakh was one of the most important Prokofiev interpreters and friends of the composer.This album, recorded for the Viennese EntArteOpera festival, offers four works which are all more or less of a piece with “degenerate art”. First, the composer, Englishwoman Ethel Smyth, whose crime was to be a feminist in an epoch when everyone, and the Nazis in particular, thought that women had no place downstage. Her 1928 Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra proves the contrary, and powerfully. There follows the Concertino for Violin, Clarinet and Orchestra by Vítězslava Kaprálová, a Czech composer and conductor – a student of Novak and Talich in Prague, and then of Martinů, Nadia Boulanger and Charles Munch, all before the age of 25, when she went into her exile in France. Her style is still marked by borrowings from her teachers. But if she had lived, she would have had a flourishing career. Karl Amadeus Hartmann, was never exactly a “degenerate”, but he lived in self-imposed internal exile in Germany until the end of the war, and remained silent – although his music was still being played abroad. His 1939 Concerto funèbre is certainly well-named. And finally, Martinů: the Concerto for Piano, Violin and Orchestra of 1953, a work of exile – which is among the composer’s most poignant works.

Tracklist:

1-01. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – I – Moderato (07:53)
1-02. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – II – Scherzo: Presto (04:47)
1-03. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – III – Andante (04:16)
1-04. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – IV – Allegro con brio (07:12)
1-05. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – I – Andante (02:11)
1-06. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – II – Lento, ma non troppo (03:04)
1-07. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – III – Animato, ma non allegro (03:27)
1-08. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – IV – Allegretto leggiero e scherzando (01:23)
1-09. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – V – Andante non troppo (03:37)
1-10. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – Sonata for Violin solo, Op. 115 – I – Moderato (05:09)
1-11. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – Sonata for Violin solo, Op. 115 – II – Andante dolce (03:15)
1-12. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – Sonata for Violin solo, Op. 115 – III – Con brio (03:49)
2-01. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – I – Andante assai (07:00)
2-02. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – II – Allegro brusco (06:47)
2-03. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – III – Andante (08:14)
2-04. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – IV – Allegrissimo (07:46)
2-05. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – I – Grande Valse. Allegretto (06:39)
2-06. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – II – Gavotte. Allegretto (02:34)
2-07. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – III – Horn-Pipe. Allegretto (01:50)
2-08. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – IV – Winter Fairy. Moderato, quasi allegretto (04:34)
2-09. Thomas Albertus Irnberger – V – Winter Fairy. Moderato, quasi allegretto (02:37)