Sakura: Spring! Malwina Sosnowski & Benyamin Nuss

• Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918):
• 1 Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps (Version for Violin & Piano) 05:19
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 “Spring”:
• 2 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 “Spring”: I. Allegro 09:37
• 3 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 “Spring”: II. Adagio molto espressivo 05:36
• 4 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 “Spring”: III. Scherzo. Allegro molto 01:07
• 5 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 “Spring”: IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo 06:44
• Benyamin Nuss (b. 1985) & Malwina Sosnowski (b. 1989):
• 6 Nuss, Sosnowski: Intermezzo. Cadenza to Benyamin Nuss' "Elegy for Fukushima“ 01:22
• Benyamin Nuss:
• 7 Nuss: Elegy for Fukushima 03:41
• Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983): Violin Sonata No. 1:
• 8 Tailleferre: Violin Sonata No. 1: I. Modéré sans lenteur 05:52
• 9 Tailleferre: Violin Sonata No. 1: II. Scherzo. Pas très vite et sans 02:39
• 10 Tailleferre: Violin Sonata No. 1: III. Assez lent 04:03
• 11 Tailleferre: Violin Sonata No. 1: IV. Final. Trè 04:44
• Masashi Hamauzu (b. 1971):
• 12 Hamauzu: 4 Pieces Around Sakura: No. 1, — 03:16
• 13 Hamauzu: 4 Pieces Around Sakura: No. 2, — 02:33
• 14 Hamauzu: 4 Pieces Around Sakura: No. 3, — 01:31
• 15 Hamauzu: 4 Pieces Around Sakura: No. 4, — 03:45
• Total Runtime 01:01:49

Info for Sakura: Spring!

In Japan, Sakura, the cherry blossom, symbolizes beauty, awakening and transience. The new GENUIN CD by the internationally successful musicians Malwina Sosnowski (violin) and Benyamin Nuss (piano) reflects aspects of the Japanese and European spring musically. Elan and freshness are united on the recording with the various nuances of the selected music. Beethoven's Spring Sonata and rarely heard repertoire by composers Germaine Tailleferre and Lili Boulanger are juxtaposed with the world premiere recording by Masashi Hamauzu as well as the centerpiece of the recording, "Elegy for Fukushima" by Benyamin Nuss, which commemorates the 2011 Japanese nuclear disaster.

Malwina Sosnowski, violin
Benyamin Nuss, piano

Malwina Sosnowski
Classical music and experimentation are her consuming passions. Malwina Sosnowski has performed as a soloist at the Berliner Philharmonie, the Zurich Tonhalle and the Shanghai Opera House, and has played on board the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s Classic Express concert bus, with dancers at the Festspielhaus Hellerau and Pierre Boulez’s Anthemes 2 with large-scale live electronics.

At the age of 18, she toured China with the Sinfonieorchester Basel as a Soloist. Her chamber music highlights include concerts at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad (Série Jeunes étoiles), the Verbier Festival as a fellow of its academy, and a live concert at the Festival de Radio France Montpellier.

She has performed with members of the Vogler Quartett, Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, Nicholas Altstaedt, Benjamin Schmid, Linus Roth, and is a well-received guest soloist with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the German Chamber Orchestra of Berlin, with youth orchestras and the Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt.

She completed her studies at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and distinguished herself in the class of the Austrian soloist Benjamin Schmid; an assistantship followed at the University of the Arts Bern. Ana Chumachenco, Graziella Contratto, Hillary Hahn, Rainer Schmidt, András Schiff and Krzysztof Penderecki have given her further artistic inspiration.

In addition, she recorded the violin parts for the motion pictures Shana – The Wolfsmusic (2014) and 972 Breadowns (2020). Malwina Sosnowski experiments with different art forms; the synthesis of these with music in its more traditional guise is a challenge she particularly enjoys.

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