℗ 1959 Warner Music France; A Warner Classics / Erato release,
Released | August 7, 2020 |
Duration | 3h 32m 39s |
Record Label | Warner Classics |
Genre | Classical |
Beethoven: L'intégrale des 10 sonates pour violon et piano
Christian Ferras, Pierre Barbizet
Available in MQA and 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1
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1.1
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I. Allegro con brio (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
6:40 | |||
1.2
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II. Tema con variazioni. Andante con moto (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
8:11 | |||
1.3
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III. Rondo. Allegro (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
5:54 | |||
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12 No. 2
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1.4
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I. Allegro vivace (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
6:47 | |||
1.5
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II. Andante, più tosto allegretto (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
6:13 | |||
1.6
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III. Allegro piacevole (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
4:50 | |||
Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 12 No. 3
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1.7
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I. Allegro con spirito (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
5:47 | |||
1.8
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II. Adagio con molt'espressione (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
6:29 | |||
1.9
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III. Rondo. Allegro molto (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
4:18 | |||
Violin Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23
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1.10
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I. Presto (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
5:32 | |||
1.11
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II. Andante scherzoso (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
5:45 | |||
1.12
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III. Allegro molto (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
5:38 | |||
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring"
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1.13
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I. Allegro (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
7:20 | |||
1.14
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II. Adagio molto espressivo (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
5:47 | |||
1.15
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III. Scherzo. Allegro molto - Trio (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
1:12 | |||
1.16
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IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
6:32 | |||
Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30 No. 1
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1.17
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I. Allegro (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
5:40 | |||
1.18
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II. Adagio molto espressivo (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
6:50 | |||
1.19
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III. Allegretto con variazioni (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
7:38 | |||
Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2
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1.20
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I. Allegro con brio (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
7:28 | |||
1.21
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II. Adagio cantabile (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
8:51 | |||
1.22
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III. Scherzo. Allegro (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
3:25 | |||
1.23
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IV. Finale. Allegro (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
5:15 | |||
Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3
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1.24
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I. Allegro assai (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
6:06 | |||
1.25
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II. Tempo di minuetto (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
7:51 | |||
1.26
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III. Allegro vivace (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
3:34 | |||
Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer"
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1.27
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I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
10:51 | |||
1.28
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II. Andante con variazioni (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
15:19 | |||
1.29
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III. Finale. Presto (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
6:52 | |||
Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96
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1.30
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I. Allegro moderato (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
7:32 | |||
1.31
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II. Adagio espressivo (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
5:39 | |||
1.32
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III. Scherzo. Allegro - Trio (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
2:04 | |||
1.33
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IV. Poco allegretto (feat. Pierre Barbizet)
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Ferras; Pierre Barbizet |
8:49 |
Virtuoso violinist Christian Ferras appears alongside pianist Pierre Barbizet to present a programme of the 10 Beethoven Violin Sonatas in this stunning legacy recording.
Beethoven wrote his first violin sonatas, a set of three (Op. 12) in 1797-98. Six more appeared by early 1803, making a fairly compressed time span for a medium in which Beethoven was to write just one more in 1812. All but the tenth were written before the composer was 32 years of age. Yet all of them, to varying degrees, show Beethoven straining at the reins that in his early years still tied him to the genteel world of eighteenth-century classicism.
Although we refer to these ten works as “violin sonatas,” in the original scores the music is invariably identified as being “for the fortepiano and a violin” (rather than the other way around). Such was usually the case with eighteenth-century works of this type, but it was hardly true with Beethoven, where we can see in even the first sonata the nearly equal partnership of the two instruments. In these ten sonatas, Beethoven explores the ways and means of combining two voices of unequal sound mass into a dramatic partnership and coherent unity, “a colloquy of reciprocal enrichment,” in Louis Biancolli’s words.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Warner Classics Studio Masters
Tracks 1-33 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-33 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -4.03 -10.29 to -0.50 | -25.47 -31.33 to -21.35 | -22.26 -27.50 to -17.40 | 14 11 to 20 | |
1 | I. Allegro con brio (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -1.35 | -22.50 | -19.3 | 13 |
2 | II. Tema con variazioni. Andante con moto (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -2.81 | -24.97 | -21.3 | 14 |
3 | III. Rondo. Allegro (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -1.66 | -23.13 | -19.7 | 13 |
4 | I. Allegro vivace (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -3.16 | -24.76 | -21.7 | 13 |
5 | II. Andante, più tosto allegretto (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -10.00 | -31.33 | -27.5 | 13 |
6 | III. Allegro piacevole (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -5.84 | -27.52 | -24.2 | 14 |
7 | I. Allegro con spirito (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -2.21 | -23.44 | -20.5 | 13 |
8 | II. Adagio con molt'espressione (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -2.75 | -29.75 | -26.5 | 20 |
9 | III. Rondo. Allegro molto (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -2.45 | -24.04 | -21.3 | 14 |
10 | I. Presto (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -2.95 | -22.92 | -20.0 | 12 |
11 | II. Andante scherzoso (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -4.89 | -27.40 | -24.1 | 13 |
12 | III. Allegro molto (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -0.50 | -21.85 | -18.4 | 13 |
13 | I. Allegro (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -1.93 | -22.63 | -19.7 | 13 |
14 | II. Adagio molto espressivo (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -8.58 | -28.69 | -25.5 | 13 |
15 | III. Scherzo. Allegro molto - Trio (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -6.46 | -26.96 | -23.7 | 13 |
16 | IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -3.37 | -24.14 | -21.1 | 13 |
17 | I. Allegro (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -5.16 | -25.63 | -22.2 | 13 |
18 | II. Adagio molto espressivo (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -7.11 | -29.21 | -25.8 | 14 |
19 | III. Allegretto con variazioni (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -4.94 | -26.89 | -23.7 | 14 |
20 | I. Allegro con brio (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -2.25 | -23.12 | -20.0 | 14 |
21 | II. Adagio cantabile (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -6.63 | -28.65 | -25.5 | 14 |
22 | III. Scherzo. Allegro (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -2.45 | -25.59 | -22.5 | 15 |
23 | IV. Finale. Allegro (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -4.05 | -24.10 | -20.9 | 13 |
24 | I. Allegro assai (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -3.37 | -23.56 | -20.5 | 14 |
25 | II. Tempo di minuetto (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -10.29 | -29.99 | -26.9 | 13 |
26 | III. Allegro vivace (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -2.97 | -25.09 | -21.9 | 13 |
27 | I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -0.68 | -21.35 | -17.4 | 13 |
28 | II. Andante con variazioni (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -4.76 | -26.74 | -23.7 | 14 |
29 | III. Finale. Presto (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -2.72 | -21.47 | -18.2 | 12 |
30 | I. Allegro moderato (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -1.73 | -24.34 | -21.4 | 13 |
31 | II. Adagio espressivo (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -8.11 | -29.30 | -26.4 | 14 |
32 | III. Scherzo. Allegro - Trio (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -2.94 | -25.03 | -22.1 | 11 |
33 | IV. Poco allegretto (feat. Pierre Barbizet) | -1.99 | -24.46 | -21.0 | 15 |