Artist: Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne
Album: Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas; Five Melodies
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2014
Audio Format: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:00:43
Total Tracks: 13
Total Size: 979 MB
Tracklist:
2. Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Violin Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op 80 – 2: Allegro brusco (06:17)
3. Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Violin Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op 80 – 3: Andante (07:12)
4. Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Violin Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op 80 – 4: Allegrissimo (06:57)
5. Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Five Melodies, Op 35bis – 1: Andante (01:52)
6. Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Five Melodies, Op 35bis – 2: Lento, ma non troppo (02:24)
7. Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Five Melodies, Op 35bis – 3: Animato, ma non allegro (03:09)
8. Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Five Melodies, Op 35bis – 4: Allegretto leggero e scherzando (01:05)
9. Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Five Melodies, Op 35bis – 5: Andante non troppo (03:16)
10. Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Violin Sonata No 2 in D major, Op 94bis – 1: Moderato (07:08)
11. Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Violin Sonata No 2 in D major, Op 94bis – 2: Scherzo: Presto (04:22)
12. Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Violin Sonata No 2 in D major, Op 94bis – 3: Andante (03:31)
13. Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Violin Sonata No 2 in D major, Op 94bis – 4: Allegro con brio (07:01)
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The slow movement is more than ever one of those ‘voices that will not be drowned’ from beyond the grave—again, the partnership is spellbinding—and if the violin seems weaker than her pianist in the spine-tingling Allegro brusco scherzo, I wonder if that’s not deliberate. The string voice is much fuller in the more straightforward melodies of the Second Sonata. Osborne is terrific in the clumsy-child piano octaves of the finale, and the spirit here is unconstrained by pity or terror. There’s a fine glide into the dream-world of the Hive Melodies transcribed from the soprano Songs without Words, where only the spiky antics of the scherzando fourth melody break the reverie, though be warned—there isn’t much of a break between the tragic dying fall of the First Sonata and the first of the Op 35 sequence.