Schubert: Complete Music for Violin and Piano

Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): More Information: Spotify: Facebook page: Composer: Franz Schubert Artists: György Pauk (violin), Peter Frankl (piano) These 1964 recordings have worn well, and stand their ground in what is hardly a competitive marketplace for this lovely and still little-known music. These Hungarian-born, later UK-resident musicians play Schubert to the manner born, rejoicing in the relaxed Viennese tradition which is their birthright; as Gramophone noted at the time of the first release, these interpretations “are always technically accomplished, sensitive and well thought out and much to be preferred to many a more sensational rendering. Pauk’s firm tone and capacity for long-breathed phrasing are shown to good advantage in the opening of the Fantasy... As always the ensemble is usual Vox have supplied a sympathetic acoustic with just that extra touch of reverberation sufficient to take away all trace of a clinical studio atmosphere.“ They are complemented here, as they were at the time of their original LP issue, by a no less sprightly performance of the sonata Schubert wrote for the obsolete Arpeggione, now most commonly heard on the cello. Gramophone’s critic observed Paul Olevsky’s “rich and beautiful tone“ at the time. Schubert’s relatively small but high-quality output for violin and piano consists of the three Sonatinas, small scale works full of Viennese charm and genial atmosphere, the mature Sonata in A major, the robust Rondo in B minor and the absolute masterpiece in the genre, the great Fantasy in C major, a substantial and dramatic 4-movement work of unprecedented difficulty for both players. 00:00:00 Violin Sonata in A Major, D. 574: I. Allegro moderato 00:08:00 Violin Sonata in A Major, D. 574: II. Scherzo. Presto 00:11:58 Violin Sonata in A Major, D. 574: III. Andantino 00:16:48 Violin Sonata in A Major, D. 574: IV. Allegro vivace 00:21:53 Fantasie in C Major, D. 934: I. Andante molto – Allegro vivace 00:30:14 Fantasie in C Major, D. 934: II. Andantino 00:40:38 Fantasie in C Major, D. 934: III. Allegro presto 00:45:21 Violin Sonata in D Major, D. 384: I. Allegro molto 00:49:16 Violin Sonata in D Major, D. 384: II. Andante 00:53:39 Violin Sonata in D Major, D. 384: III. Allegro vivace 00:57:18 Violin Sonata in A Minor, D. 385: I. Allegro moderato 01:03:23 Violin Sonata in A Minor, D. 385: II. Andante 01:10:33 Violin Sonata in A Minor, D. 385: III. Menuetto. Allegro –Trio 01:12:56 Violin Sonata in A Minor, D. 385: IV. Allegro 01:17:24 Violin Sonata in G Minor, D. 408: I. Allegro giusto 01:21:52 Violin Sonata in G Minor, D. 408: II. Andante 01:25:33 Violin Sonata in G Minor, D. 408: III. Menuetto –Trio 01:27:59 Violin Sonata in G Minor, D. 408: IV. Allegro moderato 01:31:50 Rondo in B Minor, D. 895 01:46:14 Arpeggione Sonata in A Minor, D. 821: I. Allegro moderato 01:54:54 Arpeggione Sonata in A Minor, D. 821: II. Adagio – Allegretto