CD cover for Bela Bartók: The Music for Violin and Piano vol.1

Bela Bartók: The Music for Violin and Piano

Volume 1 - ASV CD DCA 852                listen to audio clips at Amazon
Rhapsody No. 1; Sonata No. 2;
Sonata for solo violin;
Roumanian Folk Dances

Recommended by Gramophone Good CD Guide
Recommended by Penguin Good CD Guide

'She is a musician of notable temperament and intelligence. Hitherto I have most admired Kennedy's and Mordkovich's recording of this very difficult work [solo sonata]. Stanzeleit achieves his logic and her feeling for melody almost effortlessly, but adds an emotional dimension that powerfully reinforces the association between Bartók's last completed composition and the solo sonatas of Bach that inspired it.'
Hi-Fi News

'...Fenyő's playing... has a quiet but firm presence, and even sounds rather like Bartók's own - rounded, spontaneous, secure and un-aggressive.'
Gramophone


CD cover for Bela Bartók: The Music for Violin and Piano vol.2

Volume 2 - ASV CD DCA 883
Rhapsody No. 2;
Sonata No. 1;
Hungarian Folksongs

Nominated for Gramophone Award
Recommended in Gramophone Good CD Guide
Recommended in Penguin Good CD Guide
Five Star award - Classic CD

'Magnificent music, magnificent playing. What more could one wish for?'
The Strad

'A disc of remarkable quality.'
Classic CD

'...an exceptionally imaginative and mercifully tenderized account of the hard-headed First Violin Sonata... this performance somehow makes more sense [than Oistrach and Bauer or Kremer and Argerich] of the score's many dramatic contrasts.'
Gramophone


CD cover for Bela Bartók: The Music for Violin and Piano vol.3

Volume 3 - ASV CD DCA 982                listen to audio clips at Amazon
Sonata (1903); Contrasts; Andante;
Burlesque No. 2; Slovak Folksongs; For Children
with Michael Collins, clarinet

'Stanzeleit and Fenyő make a sensitive and often compelling case for Bartok's music here... strong performances with vivid characterisation.'
Classic CD

'...I happily recommend this CD as a final volume of a satisfying series.'
Gramophone


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British Violin Sonatas

Volume 1 - Cala United 88031 CD / Re-issued 2007 - Portrait BOOOSROTJC
Sonatas by Dunhill, Stanford and Bantock

Recommended by Gramophone Good CD Guide

'Susanne Stanzeleit is a marvellously eloquent purveyor of all this material...'
Gramophone


CD cover for Beethoven Violin Sonatas vol.1

Beethoven Violin Sonatas

Volume 1 - Casmara CAS 3
Sonata in F, Op. 24 Spring
Sonata in A, Op. 47 Kreutzer
Variations on Se vuol ballare from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Wo. 40

The first ever CD recorded at Paxton House, a partner gallery of the National Galleries of Scotland, near Berwick-upon-Tweed.

'...a beautiful and illuminating performance [of the Kreutzer] upon which two finely-tuned players bestowed a rewarding unity of outlook... This was subtle, responsive duo playing of a very special sort.'
The Herald, Glasgow

Cover: Marble table top, Picture Gallery, Paxton House
© Jim Walker F.R.P.S.
Recorded at Paxton House


CD cover for Delius Violin Sonatas

Delius Violin Sonatas (complete) - Naxos 8.572261

Sonata in B major (1892), Op. posth.
Sonata No. 1 (1905-15), Sonata No. 2 (1923), Sonata No. 3 (1930)

Released 1st June 2009

'Beneath the shimmering surface of Delius's little-known violin sonatas are the latent exuberance and nostalgic rapture which have made his orchestral music so popular. Across the decades separating the B major Violin Sonata of 1892 from the Third Violin Sonata of 1930, Delius developed a unique musical language which leavened the post-Romantic heritage of Wagner with French Impressionism and European and Afro-American folk idioms; an intoxicating mix that moved Sir Thomas Beecham to call him 'the last great apostle in our time of beauty and romance in music'.'

Beethoven and Delius CDs available direct from Music-Makers @ £6 (including postage & packing) - all proceeds in support of our 'Summer Music' concerts.