Ariadne Daskalakis & Paolo Giacometti - Schubert - Music for Violin, Vol. 2 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Pristine performances bring out the classicist in Schubert … Ariadne Daskalakis’s skilled hands cascade off the fingerboard with a litheness and shimmering delight that capture the music’s innate charm and dance-like vivacity with a beguiling sureness of touch.'

Violin music isn’t what one normally associates with Franz Schubert, but he did in fact receive his first violin lessons as a young boy from his father. At the age of 11 he was accepted as a member of the choir of the imperial court chapel, and as such became a pupil at the Stadtkonvikt school. There he joined the excellent student orchestra, eventually assuming the role of leader. Among his examiners was the court Kapellmeister Anton Salieri, who took a keen interest in&&& Schubert’s compositions. Schubert left the school in 1813, but continued working with Salieri for a few years longer, possibly on some of the pieces recorded here – the Rondo, Konzertstück and G minor Sonata all hail from 1816 while the Polonaise is from the following year. These early, unpretentious violin compositions were probably intended for Schubert’s older brother Ferdinand, who led the family string quartet in which Franz played the viola.

Composed in 1827, when Schubert had already written his symphonies, string quartets, piano sonatas and hundreds of songs, the closing Fantasy in C major is another matter. A substantial piece in four sections, it contains challenging writing for both instruments, demonstrating what a master Schubert himself was on both. On this and its soon-to-be-released companion disc, Ariadne Daskalakis has gathered all of Schubert’s works for violin. Equally at home on baroque and modern instruments, she has chosen to perform them in a historical context, joined by Paolo Giacometti on a fortepiano by Salvatore Lagrassa from c. 1815 and the period band Die Kölner Akademie conducted by Michael Alexander Willens.

TRACKLIST

01. Ariadne Daskalakis & Paolo Giacometti - Schubert: Rondo in B Minor, Op. 70, D. 895
02. Ariadne Daskalakis & Paolo Giacometti - Schubert: Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 137 No. 1, D. 384: I. Allegro molto
03. Ariadne Daskalakis & Paolo Giacometti - Schubert: Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 137 No. 1, D. 384: II. Andante
04. Ariadne Daskalakis & Paolo Giacometti - Schubert: Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 137 No. 1, D. 384: III. Allegro vivace
05. Ariadne Daskalakis & Paolo Giacometti - Schubert: Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 137 No. 2, D. 385: I. Allegro moderato
06. Ariadne Daskalakis & Paolo Giacometti - Schubert: Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 137 No. 2, D. 385: II. Andante
07. Ariadne Daskalakis & Paolo Giacometti - Schubert: Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 137 No. 2, D. 385: III. Menuetto. Allegro
08. Ariadne Daskalakis & Paolo Giacometti - Schubert: Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 137 No. 2, D. 385: IV. Allegro
09. Ariadne Daskalakis & Paolo Giacometti - Schubert: Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 162, D. 574 "Grand Duo": I. Allegro moderato
10. Ariadne Daskalakis & Paolo Giacometti - Schubert: Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 162, D. 574 "Grand Duo": II. Scherzo. Presto
11. Ariadne Daskalakis & Paolo Giacometti - Schubert: Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 162, D. 574 "Grand Duo": III. Andantino
12. Ariadne Daskalakis & Paolo Giacometti - Schubert: Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 162, D. 574 "Grand Duo": IV. Allegro vivace



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