"Spring" Sonata
I see that there are no recommendations for period instrument recordings of the violin sonatas at the recommended cd's webbie. Anyone care to recommend some here?
We enjoyed my first live performance of the Spring sonata last week in a very intimate setting: beer & pizza at a pub. The second of this season's Chamber Music On Tap performances here in Portland, Oregon featured the principal second violinist of the Oregon Symphony (www.orsymphony.org/orchestra/player/pptan.html) and (local?) pianist Julie Coleman.
Ms. Tan started off with two mm'ts from one of JSBach's Sonatas & Partitas. Then the Spring Sonata, followed by Kreisler's Praeludium and Allegro. After intermission, the two were joined by two other OR Symphony members for Schumann's Piano Quartet.
Overall, a lovely early evening of chamber music in a cozy brewpub setting (http://www.bridgeportbrew.com/pubs/rent.html). I sat so close (by intent, of course) that I may as well have been a second violist, and did in fact read along with the viola part of the Schumann. Not that I can read music much, having only a couple of formal years of education as a kinder...
I couldn't help but think of how it could have sounded and felt with a forte piano in place of the baby grand (Steinway?).
Next month's CMOT will feature a pair of musicians about whom I know nothing except that there is a Timothy Scott in the cello section of the OR Symphony. So...if Ms. Smith is a pianist...maybe a B Cello Sonata? One can only hope.
(http://www.bridgeportbrew.com/whatsbrewing/events/)
We enjoyed my first live performance of the Spring sonata last week in a very intimate setting: beer & pizza at a pub. The second of this season's Chamber Music On Tap performances here in Portland, Oregon featured the principal second violinist of the Oregon Symphony (www.orsymphony.org/orchestra/player/pptan.html) and (local?) pianist Julie Coleman.
Ms. Tan started off with two mm'ts from one of JSBach's Sonatas & Partitas. Then the Spring Sonata, followed by Kreisler's Praeludium and Allegro. After intermission, the two were joined by two other OR Symphony members for Schumann's Piano Quartet.
Overall, a lovely early evening of chamber music in a cozy brewpub setting (http://www.bridgeportbrew.com/pubs/rent.html). I sat so close (by intent, of course) that I may as well have been a second violist, and did in fact read along with the viola part of the Schumann. Not that I can read music much, having only a couple of formal years of education as a kinder...
I couldn't help but think of how it could have sounded and felt with a forte piano in place of the baby grand (Steinway?).
Next month's CMOT will feature a pair of musicians about whom I know nothing except that there is a Timothy Scott in the cello section of the OR Symphony. So...if Ms. Smith is a pianist...maybe a B Cello Sonata? One can only hope.
(http://www.bridgeportbrew.com/whatsbrewing/events/)
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