Brahms - Violin Sonata 1 [Belkin/Dalberto]
More Brahms Violin Sonatas, these have featured three times in January 2010, and i admit to having nine different discs in my collection of these three Sonatas, each one reveals a different facet and view, but this is the first time i'm writing about the first Sonata in my Blog, the longest of the three Sonatas, it was composed right after his Violin Concerto, i wonder if that had any influence on it?.
I enjoyed Belkin's interpretation, i most of all liked his way with the first movement, marked vivace, it's sweet and tranquil to start with with, the piano gently calls the opening notes, and the violin responds with what initially sounds like a more pastoral type of music, but soon it develops a passion at [1:24], and that passion becomes intense [1:34], nice pizzicato playing at [3:28], with the Piano playing the melody, inflamed forte passages abound, real feeling here, i still feel that the whole movement can't make up its mind to either soothe us or set us on fire, and maybe it does both, if i can think up one word to describe this movement, it would be 'ardent', the Frenchman Michel Dalberto is a great accompanyist.
Here's Kyung Wha Chung playing the first movement on YouTube.
