Beethoven, Ludwig van - Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 - Seiler, Midori (violin)
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Midori Seiler, violin
Jos van Immerseel, piano
With this first opus 12, Midori Seiler and Jos van Immerseel start the complete recording of Beethoven violin and piano sonatas together with the complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies with Anima Eterna which will be released for spring 2008.
This first cycle of sonatas opus 12 - published in 1798 - uses the classical form of a sonata in 3 movements. The title on the Artaria Edition « Tre sonate per il clavicembalo o Forte-piano con un violino » underlines the perfectly well balance between the 2 instruments such as Mozart proposed it.
Sonata n°1 has a marvellous limpidity, still influenced by baroque forms. Sonata n°2 was written at once - rhythms and dialogues between violin and pianoforte expand. Sonata n°3 - already more individual - has a sensitive mood quite related to the Pathetique piano sonata.
Midori Seiler plays an italian baroque violin mid 18's, Jos van Immerseel plays a copy of a Walter Fortepiano made by Cristopher Clarke in 1988.
" All four sonatas sound delightfully animated, and in the wonderful opening Allegro of D574 Immerseel and Seiler achieve an elegant expressive quality that brings out perfectly each aspect of the music. Gramophone - Duncan Druce - October 2006
" The curious will be rewarded with the fresh approach here, and van Immerseel's instrument continues to surprise - can it really be one instrument, for instance, playing both the pianissimo and the forte at the start of the scherzo?. BBC Music Magazine - David Nice - September 06
In the hands of Midori Seiler, playing an 1814 Franz Geissenhof, and Jos van Immerseel, on a copy of an 1814 Viennese fortepiano by Johann Peter Fritz, they sound much as one imagines they would when played by the brothers Schubert. No 2 in A minor is especially poignant, the others as bursting with lyrical energy and emotion as anything Schubert ever wrote. The Observer - Anthony Holden - 30 July 06