Utwory na płycie:

• Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano: I. Joyous
• Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano: Ii. Desolate - Fast, like shadows - Subito molto meno mosso
• Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano: Iii. Brilliant, quasi cadenza - A tempo
• Sonata for violin and piano: I. Allegro
• Sonata for violin and piano: Ii. Sandor's Ballad
• Sonata for violin and piano: Iii. Omaggio a Django
• Sonata for violin and piano: Iv. Finale
• Sonata for violin and piano: I. Introduction and Toccata
• Sonata for violin and piano: Ii. Sonnet
• Sonata for violin and piano: Iii. Idyll
• Sonata for violin and piano: Iv. Games and Epilogue

André Previn:
Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano

Tony Schemmer:
Sonata for violin and piano

Paul Gay:
Sonata for violin and piano

On this transatlantic disc, three American composers born during the first half of the last century rub shoulders with two young musicians from Eastern Europe. A member of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme, the violinist Aleksey Semenenko first met the pianist Artem Belogurov at the Stolyarsky Special Music School in Odessa at an early age. Even if their individual careers have taken to different parts of the world, the two still perform together whenever possible, and here they present three sonatas.

Of the composers, the best-known is Andre Previn who composed his Violin Sonata No. 2 in 2011 for Anne-Sophie Mutter. An improvisatory spirit permeates the work which is in three movements with the markings Joyous, Desolate and Brilliant Tony Schemmer and Paul Gay are both based in the Boston area and share a background in which jazz and classical genres merge. This is reflected in their sonatas, composed in the 1980s and here appearing on disc for the first time.

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Recording: 24th & 25th July 2018 at Westvest 90, Schiedam, the Netherlands (Previn, Schemmer); 17th November 2015 at the Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (Gay). Violin: A. Stradivari 1685 (Previn, Schemmer); C. F. Landolfi 1770 (Gay).