Violinist Sif Margrét Tulinius and pianist Richard Simm's album of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata and Franck, Violin Sonata, is released by Ulysses Arts on 28 November 2025 (UA250090).
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'On a new path'...
The two Sonatas on this album were written more than 80 years apart and are two of the greatest contributions to the sonata repertoire for violin and piano. Soon before writing his great Kreutzer Sonata, Beethoven confided in his close associate and student Carl Czerny: 'I am not satisfied with the work I have done so far. From now on, I intend to embark on a new path.' The Kreutzer's artistic legacy includes Tolstoy's short story of the same name, which itself inspired Janáċek impassioned First String Quartet.
Franck's Violin Sonata is both a tribute to Beethoven but also itself a masterpiece applying the cyclic form inspired by Franz Liszt's great Piano Sonata, to create a new type of chamber music in which thematic transformation is integrated and explored like never before.
The two Sonatas on this album were written more than 80 years apart and are two of the greatest contributions to the sonata repertoire for violin and piano. Soon before writing his great Kreutzer Sonata, Beethoven confided in his close associate and student Carl Czerny: 'I am not satisfied with the work I have done so far. From now on, I intend to embark on a new path.' The Kreutzer's artistic legacy includes Tolstoy's short story of the same name, which itself inspired Janáċek impassioned First String Quartet.
Franck's Violin Sonata is both a tribute to Beethoven but also itself a masterpiece applying the cyclic form inspired by Franz Liszt's great Piano Sonata, to create a new type of chamber music in which thematic transformation is integrated and explored like never before.
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