Ulf Wallin, Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: Mot d’amour (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Ulf Wallin, Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: Mot d’amour (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:17 minutes | 978 MB | Genre: Classical
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After tackling Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Schoenberg and Hindemith, Ulf Wallin and Roland Pontinen now focus their attention to the late-romantic English composer Edward Elgar. ‘Mot d’amour’, which takes it’s title from one of his early compositions for violin, presents a substantial part of Elgar’s output for violin and piano, which spans his entire career.Best known for his symphonic and choral works, Elgar is also the composer of chamber works that, although few in number, attain a high standard. The Violin Sonata, a mature composition contemporary with his two other major chamber pieces, is regarded by Elgar connoisseurs as one of his masterpieces. Inspired by Brahms’s sonatas, Elgar’s own, composed in the peaceful surroundings of his rented cottage in the countryside, is a work of wide expressive range and emotional impact in which every superfluous note has been eliminated from the overall design.

As for the other pieces that appear here, they show a lighter side to the composer, sometimes playful, sometimes melancholy. Unashamedly belonging to the genre of salon music, these works testify to Elgar’s versatility as well as to his melodic gift and his ability to turn a seemingly light genre into a vehicle for secret emotion, often charming but always devoid of sentimentality.

Tracklist:

1. Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op. 82: I. Allegro (08:39)
2. Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op. 82: II. Romance. Andante (08:00)
3. Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op. 82: III. Allegro, non troppo (09:33)
4. Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: Chanson de nuit et Chanson de matin, Op. 15: No. 1 Chanson de nuit (03:54)
5. Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: Chanson de nuit et Chanson de matin, Op. 15: No. 2 Chanson de matin (02:56)
6. Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: 2 Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 13: No. 1 Mot d’amour (02:11)
7. Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: 2 Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 13: No. 2 Bizarrerie (02:36)
8. Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: Romance in E Minor, Op. 1 (05:18)
9. Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: Salut d’amour, Op. 12 (03:19)
10. Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: Adieu (02:29)
11. Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: Allegretto on G-E-D-G-E (04:33)
12. Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen – Elgar: Sospiri, Op. 70 (03:44)

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