- Composer: Niels Gade
- Audio CD (3 July 2000)
- SPARS Code: DDD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Cpo
- ASIN: B00004TTK3
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,219,438 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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| 1. Violin Sonata No. 1 Op. 6 In A Major: Allegro di molto |
| 2. Violin Sonata No. 1 Op. 6 In A Major: Andante con moto |
| 3. Violin Sonata No. 1 Op. 6 In A Major: Allegro con espressione |
| 4. Violin Sonata No.2 Op. 21 In D Minor: Adagio - Allegro di molto |
| 5. Violin Sonata No.2 Op. In D Minor: Larghetto - Allegro vivace |
| 6. Violin Sonata No.2 Op. 21 In D Minor: Adagio - Allegro moderato - Allegro molto vivace |
| 7. Violin Sonata No. 3 Op. 59 In B Flat Major: Allegro con fuoco |
| 8. Violin Sonata No. 3 Op. 59 In B Flat Major: Allegro non troppo e scherzando |
| 9. Violin Sonata No. 3 Op. 59 In B Flat Major: Romanze; Andantino con moto |
| 10. Violin Sonata No. 3 Op. 59 In B Flat Major: Finale. Allegro vivace |
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Review
Niels Gade, father figure of 19th-century Danish music, was more than just a provincial imitator of Mendelssohn. His best work has a freshness, skill and melodic charm which won him the praise of Schumann - a keen-eared critic when it came to recognising originality in others. These three sonatas show Gade in youth, early maturity and old age - the Third Sonata was written in 1885, by which time Gade must have seemed incurably old-fashioned. They are all fine works, all played very persuasively by Dora Bratchkova and Andreas Meyer-Hermann. But I have to admit that it was the early A major Sonata (composed when Gade was 25) which really won me over. The range of colour and feeling is surprisingly wide, and the imagination sparkles. I found it ultimately more convincing, and a lot more appealing, than the determinedly serious Second Sonata - though that has its fine moments, especially the second movement: an ingeniously dovetailed slow movement and scherzo. Recordings are clear and spacious, if a little lacking in warmth.
Performance ****
Sound ****
© BBC Music Magazine 2000
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