Eduard Franck: Sonatas for Violin & Piano Christiane Edinger & James Tocco

• Eduard Franck (1817 - 1893): Violin Sonata in C Minor, Op. 19:
• 1 Violin Sonata in C Minor, Op. 19: Allegro moderato con espressione quasi Fantasia 11:17
• 2 Violin Sonata in C Minor, Op. 19: Andante con Espressione 07:30
• 3 Violin Sonata in C Minor, Op. 19: Allegro Appassionato 07:43
• Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 23:
• 4 Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 23: Allegro 07:19
• 5 Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 23: Andante con Moto 07:37
• 6 Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 23: Scherzo 04:10
• 7 Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 23: Allegro Espressivo 05:45
• Violin Sonata in E Major, Op. 60:
• 8 Violin Sonata in E Major, Op. 60: Allegro 09:20
• 9 Violin Sonata in E Major, Op. 60: Scherzo 01:57
• 10 Violin Sonata in E Major, Op. 60: Allegretto 04:50
• 11 Violin Sonata in E Major, Op. 60: Presto 07:57
• Violin Sonata in D Major, op. Posth. (1861):
• 12 Violin Sonata in D Major, op. Posth. (1861): Allegro 07:04
• 13 Violin Sonata in D Major, op. Posth. (1861): Allegro Vivace 05:09
• 14 Violin Sonata in D Major, op. Posth. (1861): Adagio molto Espressivo 09:31
• 15 Violin Sonata in D Major, op. Posth. (1861): Presto 01:28
• Total Runtime 01:38:37

Info for Eduard Franck: Sonatas for Violin & Piano

Composed during the years 1853-1861, the Violin Sonatas of Eduard Franck convince the listener by virtue of their freshness and the originality of their thematic and metric-rhythmic invention as well as their formal perfection. On the other hand, Franck’s classicist aesthetic does not renounce its connection to the sound world of his teacher, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and influences from French music, e.g. the works of C. V. Alkan. The genre of the violin sonata found itself in a crisis after the deaths of Beethoven and Schubert; it only found a renewal during the 1880s with the sonatas of Brahms, Dvorak, César Franck, Grieg and Saint-Saens. With the publication of the four Violin Sonatas of Eduard Franck, his contribution towards the overcoming of this crisis is put up for discussion. Due to their adaptation of elements of folk and church music, the Violin Sonatas stand on the threshold of a new musical realism which dominated the music history of the second half of the 19th century.

The four Violin Sonatas offer present-day virtuosos grateful and differentiated tasks; they deserve to be heard and appreciated anew.

Christiane Edinger, violin
James Tocco, piano

Christiane Edinger
Born in Potsdam, Christiane Edinger hails from a highly musical family and received the basic grounding for the high standard of her art as an interpreter and her technique from Professor Vittorio Brero at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. Later she completed her training with Josef Fuchs at the Juilliard School of Music, New York, and with Nathan Milstein

Christiane Edinger made her debut as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra when she was 19. This appearance at the Berlin Festival marked the beginning of her career. She has since made numerous guest appearances with orchestras in Europe and North America, also regularly visiting Asia, South America and Russia.

Highly praised by critics and audiences alike throughout the world, Christiane Edinger is a familiar guest with the Berlin, Rotterdam and Leningrad orchestras, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and both the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Hallé Orchestra in Great Britain. Including all the standard works, her repertoire extends from the Baroque to the present day and features many lesser-known works from all periods.

Both in Europe and North America, Christiane Edinger has frequently featured in radio and TV productions.

Her concert tours in the USA have included appearances with the Boston, Pittsburgh, New York and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Recitals have taken her the length and breadth of the country, to Washington, San Francisco, St. Louis, Salt Lake City and Pasadena, among other centres.

Her recordings range from the complete works by J.S. Bach for solo violin, the Mendelssohn sonatas using the Aurea Stradivarius (for Thorofon), contemporary works by Blacher, Linke and Maderna plus two Fauré sonatas (for Orion) and the Hindemith sonatas (for Teldec). Her last recording before Howard Blake's Violin Concerto (for ASV) was of Penderecki's Violin Concerto No. 1. With the composer on the rostrum, this was the second occasion on which she had recorded the work, having also given the German premiere of it in 1979, just two years after the very first performance, by Isaac Stern.

Other composers to have entrusted her with the premieres include Boris Blacher and Cristobal Halffter.

Christiane Edinger's latest recordings include the complete Mozart violin concertos and the Beethoven concerto (all for Arte Nova), also a CD of Eduard Franck's violin concerto (for Fermate) with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra. With her Edinger String Quartet, she has also recorded other works by this Romantic composer.

Recently ago Christiane Edinger appeared as soloist with both the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (conducted by Christian Thielmann), the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra under Sir Neville Marriner and with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic under Hartmut Haenchen.

Since 1994 Christiane Edinger has been professor for violin at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, while her artistic achievements have been acknowledged by the conferment of many prizes and distinctions, including the 1975 German Critics' Award and the Music Prize of her native city of Berlin.

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