Label: Bridge
Format: CD
Barcode: 0090404945229
Catalog number: BRIDG 9452
Releasedate: 04-03-16
Format: CD
Barcode: 0090404945229
Releasedate: 04-03-16
- a valuable addition to the rediscovery of an important composer who worked in Felix Austria before fleeing to USA.
As a child Stefan Wolpe studied the violin and the piano, and by his teens he wished to become a concert pianist and composer. His life transformed when, at the age of 18, he visited the Bauhaus at Weimar and sat in on the Preliminary Course of the painter and progressive educator Johannes Itten. Throughout his life Wolpe maintained that art has the power to transform the individual and society. This remarkable collection of Wolpe's music for violin(s) and piano includes several premiere recordings (the spectacular op. 2 Duo for two violins, the two studies of 1933, and the fragment of a second violin sonata). In addition it includes Wolpe's two late violin solos, and his magnificent and epic 1949 Sonata for Violin and Piano. The featured violinist on all the works is the Armenian/American virtuoso, Movses Pogossian.
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1Second Piece for Violin Alone03:14
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2Duo for Two Violins, op. 2I. Allegro molto07:52
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3Duo for Two Violins, op. 2II. Presto (Besessen)03:00
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4Duo for Two Violins, op. 2III. Quarter note = 11202:44
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5Two Studies for Two Violins and PianoI. Overture02:00
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6Two Studies for Two Violins and PianoII. Pastoral in the Form of a Passacaglia03:48
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7Sonata for Violin and PianoI. Un poco allegro06:29
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8Sonata for Violin and PianoII. Andante appassionato08:37
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9Sonata for Violin and PianoIII. Lento03:33
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10Sonata for Violin and PianoIV. Allegretto deciso10:09
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11Second Sonata for Violin and Piano (fragment)01:30
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12Piece in Two Parts for Violin AloneI. Quarter note = 8008:37
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13Piece in Two Parts for Violin AloneII. Half note = ca. 11206:19