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Building a Library: Mahan Esfahani surveys the recordings of Franck's Violin Sonata
The Sonata in A major by César Franck is one the greatest sonatas for violin and piano ever written. It was written in 1886, when César Franck was 63, as a wedding present for the 31-year-old violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. The piece is cyclic in that all the movements share common thematic threads. And it has attracted some of the finest violin and piano duos into the recording studio over the years
Available versions:-
Rachel Kolly d'Alba, Christian Chamorel
Pierre Amoyal, Pascal Roge
Maria Bachmann, Adam Neiman
Charles Barkel, Tore Wiberg (download)
Joshua Bell, Jeremy Denk
Joshua Bell, Jean-Yves Thibaudet (download)
Berlin Chamber Duo
Lea Birringer, Esther Birringer
Simon Blendis, William Howard
Lola Bobescu, Jacques Genty
Renaud Capuçon, Khatia Buniatishvili
Carlock-Combet Duo
Sarah Chang, Lars Vogt (download)
Ray Chen, Noreen Polera (download)
Kyung Wha Chung, Kevin Kenner
Kyung-Wha Chung, Radu Lupu
Jean-Philippe Collard, Augustin Dumay
Paul Crossley, Arthur Grumiaux
Massimiliano Damerini, Georg Mönch
Kaja Danczowska, Krystian Zimerman
Christian Danowicz, Anna Rutkowska-Schock
Elmira Darvarova, Shoko Inoue (download)
Michael Dinnebier, Angela-Charlott Bieber
Alfred Dubois, Marcel Maas
Augustin Dumay, Louis Lortie
Augustin Dumay, Maria João Pires
Duo Esterhazy
James Ehnes, Andrew Armstrong
Pace Ennrico, Akiko Suwanai (download)
Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov
Christian Ferras, Pierre Barbizet
Christian Ferras (DVD)
Liza Ferschtman, Bas Verheijden (download)
Zino Francescatti, Robert Casadeus
Erick Friedman, André Previn
Anne Gastinel, Claire Désert
Natascia Gazzana, Raffaella Gazzana
Kai Gleusteen, Catherine Ordronneau
Boris Goldstein, Julia Goldstein (download)
Ryu Goto, Michael Dussek (download)
David Grimal, Georges Pludermacher
Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Hans Altmann (download)
Arthur Grumiaux, Istvan Hajdu
Arthur Grumiaux, György Sebök (download)
Franco Gulli, Enrica Cavallo (download)
Giovanni Guzzo,Anne Lovett
Augustin Hadelich, Joyce Yang
Ida Haendel, Ronald Turini
Andrew Hardy, Uriel Tsachor
Jascha Heifetz, Arthur Rubinstein
Jascha Heifetz, Brooks Smith
Vladislav Igolinsky, Margarita Kravchenko
Petteri Iivonen, Kevin Fitz-Gerald
Nobuko Imai (viola), Roger Vignoles (download)
Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Jörg Demus
Yossif Ivanov, Daniel Blumenthal
Lisa Jacobs, Ksenia Kouzmenko
Annie Jodry, Inger Sodergren (download)
Krzysztof Jakowicz, Waldemar Malicki (download)
Danwen Jiang, Walter Cosand (download)
Sergey Khachatryan, Lusine Khachatryan
Leonid Kogan, Nina Kogan
Gidon Kremer, Oleg Maisenberg
Marte Krogh, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg (download)
Tue Lautrup, Jacob Nielsen
Roman Lasocki, Urszula Bozek-Musialka
David Lefèvre, Alain Lefèvre
Tasmin Little, Piers Lane
Wanda Luzzato, Antonio Beltrami
Yehudi Menuhin, Hephzibah Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Lev Oborin
Alexander Meshibovsky, Raisa Kagramanova (download)
Anne Akiko Meyers, Rohan De Silva
Midori, Robert McDonald (download)
Akiko Mimata, Ryosuke Suho (download)
Shlomo Mintz, Yefim Bronfman
Lydia Mordkovitch, Marina Gusak-Grin (download)
Elzbieta Mrozek-Loska (viola), Zbigniew Raubo
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis
Takako Nishizaki, Jeno Jando
David Oistrakh, Vladimir Yampolsky
Igor Oistrakh, Anton Ginsburg
Louis Pantillon, Steve Huter (download)
Tedi Papavrami, Nelson Goerner
Itzhak Perlman, Martha Argerich
Itzhak Perlman, Vladimir Ashkenazy
Patrycja Piekutowska, Anna Miernik
Franziska Pietsch, Detlev Eisinger
Jennifer Pike, Martin Roscoe
Benjamin Powell, Sophie Rosa (download)
Zhou Qian, Ning Du (download)
Vadim Repin, Nikolai Lugansky
Ruggiero Ricci, Martha Argerich
Ruggiero Ricci, Robin McCabe (download)
Bruno Rigutto, Gerard Poulet
Simone Riniker, Karl-Andreas Kolly (SACD)
Aaron Rosand, Robert Koenig (DVD)
Maxim Rysanov (viola), Evelyn Chang
Zina Schiff, Cameron Grant (download)
Giora Schmidt, Rohan De Silva (download)
Sergiu Schwartz, Ruzhka Charakchieva (download)
Dora Schwarzberg, Martha Argerich (SACD)
Gil Shaham, Gerhard Oppitz
Ittai Shapira, Jeremy Denk
Callum Smart, Gordon Back
Albert Spalding, André Benoist (download)
Vladimir Spivakov, Sergei Bezrodnyi
Vladimir Spivakov, Viktoriya Postnikova
Arabella Steinbacher, Robert Kulek (SACD)
Steinberg Duo
Isaac Stern, Alexander Zakin (download)
Josef Suk, Jan Panenka
Guillaume Sutre, Pascal Rogé (download)
Shinichi Suzuki, Manfred Gurlitt (download)
Gerhard Taschner, Cor de Groot (download)
Gerhard Taschner, Walter Gieseking (download)
Jacques Thibaud, Alfred Cortot
Jacques Thibaud, Jean Laforge (download)
Christopher Thompson, Michael Gurt
Yayoi Toda, Abdel Rahman El Bacha (download)
Mikhail Tolpygo, Manuel Gonzalez (download)
Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Havard Gimse
Kirill Troussov, Alexandra Troussova (SACD)
Wandy Tworek, Esther Vagning
Haruko Ueda, Eiichi Chijiiwa (download)
Gioconda de Vito
Markus Wolf, Julian Riem
Peijun Xu (viola), Paul Rivinius
Bernard Zaslav (viola), Naomi Zaslav (download)
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Kirill Gerstein (SACD)
Denes Zsigmondy, Anneliese Nissen
Pinchas Zukerman, Marc Neikrug
Building a Library: Mahan Esfahani surveys the recordings of Franck's Violin Sonata
The Sonata in A major by César Franck is one the greatest sonatas for violin and piano ever written. It was written in 1886, when César Franck was 63, as a wedding present for the 31-year-old violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. The piece is cyclic in that all the movements share common thematic threads. And it has attracted some of the finest violin and piano duos into the recording studio over the years
Available versions:-
Rachel Kolly d'Alba, Christian Chamorel
Pierre Amoyal, Pascal Roge
Maria Bachmann, Adam Neiman
Charles Barkel, Tore Wiberg (download)
Joshua Bell, Jeremy Denk
Joshua Bell, Jean-Yves Thibaudet (download)
Berlin Chamber Duo
Lea Birringer, Esther Birringer
Simon Blendis, William Howard
Lola Bobescu, Jacques Genty
Renaud Capuçon, Khatia Buniatishvili
Carlock-Combet Duo
Sarah Chang, Lars Vogt (download)
Ray Chen, Noreen Polera (download)
Kyung Wha Chung, Kevin Kenner
Kyung-Wha Chung, Radu Lupu
Jean-Philippe Collard, Augustin Dumay
Paul Crossley, Arthur Grumiaux
Massimiliano Damerini, Georg Mönch
Kaja Danczowska, Krystian Zimerman
Christian Danowicz, Anna Rutkowska-Schock
Elmira Darvarova, Shoko Inoue (download)
Michael Dinnebier, Angela-Charlott Bieber
Alfred Dubois, Marcel Maas
Augustin Dumay, Louis Lortie
Augustin Dumay, Maria João Pires
Duo Esterhazy
James Ehnes, Andrew Armstrong
Pace Ennrico, Akiko Suwanai (download)
Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov
Christian Ferras, Pierre Barbizet
Christian Ferras (DVD)
Liza Ferschtman, Bas Verheijden (download)
Zino Francescatti, Robert Casadeus
Erick Friedman, André Previn
Anne Gastinel, Claire Désert
Natascia Gazzana, Raffaella Gazzana
Kai Gleusteen, Catherine Ordronneau
Boris Goldstein, Julia Goldstein (download)
Ryu Goto, Michael Dussek (download)
David Grimal, Georges Pludermacher
Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Hans Altmann (download)
Arthur Grumiaux, Istvan Hajdu
Arthur Grumiaux, György Sebök (download)
Franco Gulli, Enrica Cavallo (download)
Giovanni Guzzo,Anne Lovett
Augustin Hadelich, Joyce Yang
Ida Haendel, Ronald Turini
Andrew Hardy, Uriel Tsachor
Jascha Heifetz, Arthur Rubinstein
Jascha Heifetz, Brooks Smith
Vladislav Igolinsky, Margarita Kravchenko
Petteri Iivonen, Kevin Fitz-Gerald
Nobuko Imai (viola), Roger Vignoles (download)
Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Jörg Demus
Yossif Ivanov, Daniel Blumenthal
Lisa Jacobs, Ksenia Kouzmenko
Annie Jodry, Inger Sodergren (download)
Krzysztof Jakowicz, Waldemar Malicki (download)
Danwen Jiang, Walter Cosand (download)
Sergey Khachatryan, Lusine Khachatryan
Leonid Kogan, Nina Kogan
Gidon Kremer, Oleg Maisenberg
Marte Krogh, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg (download)
Tue Lautrup, Jacob Nielsen
Roman Lasocki, Urszula Bozek-Musialka
David Lefèvre, Alain Lefèvre
Tasmin Little, Piers Lane
Wanda Luzzato, Antonio Beltrami
Yehudi Menuhin, Hephzibah Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Lev Oborin
Alexander Meshibovsky, Raisa Kagramanova (download)
Anne Akiko Meyers, Rohan De Silva
Midori, Robert McDonald (download)
Akiko Mimata, Ryosuke Suho (download)
Shlomo Mintz, Yefim Bronfman
Lydia Mordkovitch, Marina Gusak-Grin (download)
Elzbieta Mrozek-Loska (viola), Zbigniew Raubo
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis
Takako Nishizaki, Jeno Jando
David Oistrakh, Vladimir Yampolsky
Igor Oistrakh, Anton Ginsburg
Louis Pantillon, Steve Huter (download)
Tedi Papavrami, Nelson Goerner
Itzhak Perlman, Martha Argerich
Itzhak Perlman, Vladimir Ashkenazy
Patrycja Piekutowska, Anna Miernik
Franziska Pietsch, Detlev Eisinger
Jennifer Pike, Martin Roscoe
Benjamin Powell, Sophie Rosa (download)
Zhou Qian, Ning Du (download)
Vadim Repin, Nikolai Lugansky
Ruggiero Ricci, Martha Argerich
Ruggiero Ricci, Robin McCabe (download)
Bruno Rigutto, Gerard Poulet
Simone Riniker, Karl-Andreas Kolly (SACD)
Aaron Rosand, Robert Koenig (DVD)
Maxim Rysanov (viola), Evelyn Chang
Zina Schiff, Cameron Grant (download)
Giora Schmidt, Rohan De Silva (download)
Sergiu Schwartz, Ruzhka Charakchieva (download)
Dora Schwarzberg, Martha Argerich (SACD)
Gil Shaham, Gerhard Oppitz
Ittai Shapira, Jeremy Denk
Callum Smart, Gordon Back
Albert Spalding, André Benoist (download)
Vladimir Spivakov, Sergei Bezrodnyi
Vladimir Spivakov, Viktoriya Postnikova
Arabella Steinbacher, Robert Kulek (SACD)
Steinberg Duo
Isaac Stern, Alexander Zakin (download)
Josef Suk, Jan Panenka
Guillaume Sutre, Pascal Rogé (download)
Shinichi Suzuki, Manfred Gurlitt (download)
Gerhard Taschner, Cor de Groot (download)
Gerhard Taschner, Walter Gieseking (download)
Jacques Thibaud, Alfred Cortot
Jacques Thibaud, Jean Laforge (download)
Christopher Thompson, Michael Gurt
Yayoi Toda, Abdel Rahman El Bacha (download)
Mikhail Tolpygo, Manuel Gonzalez (download)
Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Havard Gimse
Kirill Troussov, Alexandra Troussova (SACD)
Wandy Tworek, Esther Vagning
Haruko Ueda, Eiichi Chijiiwa (download)
Gioconda de Vito
Markus Wolf, Julian Riem
Peijun Xu (viola), Paul Rivinius
Bernard Zaslav (viola), Naomi Zaslav (download)
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Kirill Gerstein (SACD)
Denes Zsigmondy, Anneliese Nissen
Pinchas Zukerman, Marc Neikrug
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