Progetto Martha Argerich

italiano

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George Enescu

Sonata No. 3, Op. 25

 

Although his name means relatively little to the public at large today, Georges Enesco was one of twentieth-century Europe’s most important musical personalities. Enesco wrote three sonatas for the classic violin-piano combination; the last of them, "in Romanian folk style," was composed in 1926. Like its two companion pieces, this sonata is in three-movement form. It begins with a rhapsodic Moderato malinconico in which it is above all the violin’s melodic line that brings Romanian folk music to mind. The second movement, Andante sostenuto e misterioso, blends the folkloric origins of the themes with harmonic and instrumental writing that testifies to Enesco’s familiarity with all the developments in early twentieth-century music. The composition ends with an Allegro con brio, ma non troppo mosso in which changeable, uneven folkdance rhythms are heard once again.

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1. Moderato malinconico
2. Andante sostenuto e misterioso
3. Allegro con brio, ma non troppo mosso

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