{"id":1163,"date":"2010-09-12T00:27:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T17:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2010-09-12T00:27:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T17:27:02","slug":"the-violin-sonata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/?p=1163","title":{"rendered":"The Violin Sonata"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Love this Anne performance a lot especially this is because on bluray media format. I don’t have a proper Hi-Fi bluray player system to be proud of but satisfied enough and many times hold my breath playing this on my KLIXs linux desktop with hdmi output to my 37″ Regza and tap the audio from the XFi extreme soundcard to my homemade vacuum tube preamp, then Jadis vacuum tube amps before ended to my Bose speaker system. Enjoying this music much better on late saturday night when no friend insights during holiday season with some beers and loneliness. Found this albums on some store and honestly this price is pretty expensive for me, but then soon forget and won’t regret buying this album.\u00a0 The music is superb, the violin is very warmth … and oooh I can’t tell you what I feel … I’m not good to write any musics comments, so here is what I found on the net commenting Anne Sophie Mutter :<\/p>\n

On this recording, Anne-Sophie Mutter, accompanied by pianist Lambert Orkis, shares her up-to-date thoughts on the Brahms Violin Sonatas that have been central to her repertoire from the start of her career. These sonatas are among the most intense, emotionally penetrating works composed for the violin. Second only to her solo repertoire, chamber music has been for Anne-Sophie Mutter an on-going passion and commitment. Her communion with Orkis\u2019s pianism defines musical collaboration at its zenith Recent reviews of concerts where she performed these pieces are excellent and will certainly make for an outstanding recording: \u201cHer Brahms playing has acquired new maturity and intimacy\u201d, writes the Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung. \u201cThe dreamlike ending of the G major Sonata even took one\u2019s breath away for a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMutter\u2019s Brahms today sounds more serious and restrained. One almost has the impression that she wants to dissect sounds and structures, to avoid overly hard contrasts, and yet to seek out hidden fractures that Brahms in his wholly rational approach tries so hard to cover up or at least to even out\u2026 It is there again: this melting quality, this penetrating, soulful sound of unearthly beauty\u2026 Mutter now shows an interpretive potential that has been altered and developed by her involvement with new music, for example with the second violin concerto \u201cIn tempus praesens\u201d by Sofia Gubaidulina, which she premiered. Suddenly the tone seems to float, shorn of vibrato, turning almost eerie, only to be filled again at once with warmth and new life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis talking about the Brahms Violin Sonatas:<\/p>\n

Anne-Sophie Mutter:<\/em> The first time I came across the Brahms sonatas was very much at the beginning of my musical life, I\u2019d just started to play the violin. I was five and a half years old, and David Oistrakh visited Basle. He was playing the three Brahms sonatas with Frieda Bauer, I was totally immersed in the music. And it was not only David Oistrakh\u2019s personality, the warmth of sound and the lushness of expression, and of course the love for the violin, which was deepened by this concert, but it was Brahms\u2019s music which was engraved from that moment on as something perfectly suited for the violin, understanding the singing quality of this instrument. When I was fifteen or sixteen, I started to play the Brahms sonatas. There have always been cycles in my life where I\u2019ve dedicated time to one particular composer, like the Mozart cycle we did a few years ago, or the Beethoven cycle in \u201998. So there was this period in my early teenage years where I was very dedicated to Brahms \u2013 the Violin Concerto, the Double Concerto, because I recorded them with Herbert von Karajan, and the Brahms violin sonatas.<\/p>\n

Lambert Orkis:<\/em> As far as my first experiences with the violin sonatas go, it was not so much of a listening but a playing experience. It was at Curtis. I was a young man, maybe fourteen or fifteen, and a fellow student needed a pianist to read through the \u201cRain\u201d Sonata for his lesson. I went in there basically thinking I was going to sight-read this piece. And it was: Oh, my! This is more than I bargained for. Brahms\u2019s pianism is very rich. I didn\u2019t know then but realize now that it was very much influenced by his choral writing. The voice-leading is fantastic in Brahms. And don\u2019t you find that these sonatas are quite different from the Beethoven and Mozart sonatas for the same combination? It\u2019s not that there\u2019s a lack of dialogue, but there tends to be more of a realization of what each instrument is really best at doing. And he certainly knows how to create moods using the various abilities of the instruments. You can whisper so much. The piano can whisper, too, but I also have the pedal to create this almost Impressionistic gloss. And those moments of quiet, when that whispering comes in with this kind of mist that the piano\u2019s capable of creating, that\u2019s Brahmsian.<\/p>\n

Anne-Sophie Mutter:<\/em> Beethoven was a rotten composer for the fiddle in terms of comfort. But Brahms really knew how to embrace the violin, and he learned quite a bit from knowing Joseph Joachim from the age of twenty.<\/p>\n

Lambert Orkis:<\/em> However, Brahms was a pianist, not a violinist. It\u2019s a kind of truism that Brahms\u2019s piano writing is not necessarily pianistic. In fact, in many ways it\u2019s considered clumsy. There are just fistfuls of notes, and they don\u2019t serve any kind of self-glorification. Rather, it\u2019s serving musical functions. And Brahms would send these sonatas to Clara Schumann. He really trusted her instincts. With the D minor Sonata he goes so far as to say that, if you don\u2019t like it, I won\u2019t play it. Of the three sonatas, that is probably the most complex for the piano, especially the first movement and the last movement.<\/p>\n

Anne-Sophie Mutter:<\/em> I can\u2019t say which of the three sonatas is the most difficult one for me as a violinist because each has its very specific characteristics, which you have to meet.<\/p>\n

Lambert Orkis:<\/em> Sometimes I hear that you\u2019re more concerned about the G major, just from an instrument\u2019s health point of view, whether or not you\u2019re going to have whistles because of the humidity, dryness…<\/p>\n

Anne-Sophie Mutter:<\/em> That\u2019s true, because I have to play it so delicately that the horse hair of the bow is very much under the influence of humidity.<\/p>\n

Lambert Orkis:<\/em> That influences my playing of the G major as well, the last movement with those very delicate raindrops: if the humidity rises or falls, it can really affect how the repetition on the piano works. People ask why we rehearse so much: because of these changes.<\/p>\n

Anne-Sophie Mutter:<\/em> To me, the G major holds a very special place because it\u2019s such a private piece; it uses Clara Schumann\u2019s favourite Regenlied punctuated theme for all three movements. Clara had just lost another child, and her son Felix had tuberculosis. So she was in a very bad state of mind, and Brahms wanted to give her this sonata to comfort her.<\/p>\n

Lambert Orkis:<\/em> He sent it to her, and apparently she was so taken with it that she was in tears.<\/p>\n

Anne-Sophie Mutter:<\/em> The A major Sonata, which was written eight years later, is much sunnier. Brahms had his eye on a soprano and was once again on vacation on Lake Thun. He was tremendously fond of composing while on holiday. All three sonatas were written in this way. The A major Sonata is very open, very joyous, the exact opposite of the G major piece, with two very difficult Vivaces and a wonderfully cantabile final movement that sounds almost like a welcome greeting to Frau Spies, whose arrival he was expecting. The D minor Sonata was begun at the same time and can be described as a concerto for violin and piano, with very dark features, almost demonic, a wonderful Adagio, an eerie Scherzo and a Presto just like a tornado, which Lambert and I regularly throw ourselves into at the end of a long evening.<\/p>\n

Lambert Orkis:<\/em> There\u2019s more complexity in a certain way in the D minor, and maybe he\u2019s getting more clever with the use of his materials. Brahms has always been somewhat clumsy for the piano. In the D minor Sonata he achieves his musical demands with the usual great leaps on the keys and lots of big chords. But it\u2019s written in a much more masterly fashion. It\u2019s as though he has finally discovered a better way of achieving his musical goals.<\/p>\n

Anne-Sophie Mutter:<\/em> For the violin I can\u2019t say such a thing, it\u2019s just as equally perfectly shaped, maybe because it wasn\u2019t his instrument and Joachim was such a tremendous influence. We have played these sonatas for twenty years. Of course, my view of Brahms, my view on anything I play today has changed. I have a deeper understanding of music and, if you want it or not, life does leave its marks not only in your brain but in your heart and in your soul, the understanding of things deepens. And in the case of the sonatas I do see in the interaction between us much more awareness for details, for sound colours, for interwoven dialogues.<\/p>\n

Lambert Orkis:<\/em> We\u2019ve learned them, we\u2019ve lived with them, and we\u2019ve played them on various continents together, and we go through life experience, and now we\u2019d bring it all to this music. Brahms is a composer who\u2019s not showing off: he\u2019s showing life, beauty, art. It\u2019s wonderful.<\/p>\n

The conversation was recorded on 4 December 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n

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