Felix Mendelssohn's sonatas for violin and piano are not often played, and there are valid reasons for this neglect. Only one is a mature work, and that one, the Violin Sonata in F major, MWV Q26, from 1838, has textual problems and was not even published until 1953. Here are strong performances of the sonatas that will appeal to Mendelssohn buffs. Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien are an experienced pair, and their ensemble in the 1838 sonata is impressive; listen to the finale to hear clean ...
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Felix Mendelssohn's sonatas for violin and piano are not often played, and there are valid reasons for this neglect. Only one is a mature work, and that one, the Violin Sonata in F major, MWV Q26, from 1838, has textual problems and was not even published until 1953. Here are strong performances of the sonatas that will appeal to Mendelssohn buffs. Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien are an experienced pair, and their ensemble in the 1838 sonata is impressive; listen to the finale to hear clean performances in which Tiberghien lays off the pedal, and the pair gives a period-appropriate performance on modern instruments. The slow movements of the Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 4, of 1823, and the Violin Sonata in F major, MWV Q7, written in 1820 by the 11-year-old composer, are exceptionally elegant. Another attraction here is the fragmentary Violin Sonata in D major, MWV Q18, of which only part of the first movement was completed; it seems to have been planned as a more ambitious...
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