A number of French composers from the middle of the eighteenth century wrote sonatas for two violins unaccompanied; the genre was an attractive one for commercial publishers, who marketed works like these to amateur players and felt free to suggest alternative instrumentation. For Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder, whose virtuoso works for violin formed the basis for a durable French violin school, works like the sonatas on this album must have represented a come-down with their requirement that they remain within reach of ...
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A number of French composers from the middle of the eighteenth century wrote sonatas for two violins unaccompanied; the genre was an attractive one for commercial publishers, who marketed works like these to amateur players and felt free to suggest alternative instrumentation. For Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder, whose virtuoso works for violin formed the basis for a durable French violin school, works like the sonatas on this album must have represented a come-down with their requirement that they remain within reach of average players. As it happened, Leclair made a virtue of necessity, applying his violinistic skill toward the goal of creating musically satisfying textures for the spare combination of two violins. The chief appeal of these pieces lies in the way they make you forget that there are just two violins playing, and more generally in the way they make music of modest technical means sound great.Montreal-based violinists Marc Destrubé and Chantal Rémillard, playing modern instruments, catch...
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