Eduard NÁPRAVNÍK: Chamber Music, Volume One: Music for Violin and Piano
The Czech-born Eduard Nápravník (1839–1916) became one of the pivotal figures in the musical life of nineteenth-century Russia: as conductor of the Imperial Mariinsky Opera in St Petersburg, he gave the premieres of some of the most important Russian operas, among them Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov, six by Tchaikovsky and nine by Rimsky-Korsakov. But his own music has largely been lost from sight – a fate it emphatically does not deserve, as these three works for violin and piano prove: big-hearted and big-boned, replete with passionate Tchaikovskian melody, they reveal a composer ripe for rediscovery.
Lana Trotovšek, violin
Ludmil Angelov, piano
First Recordings
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Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 52 (1890)
- I Andante sostenuto – Allegro
- II Scherzo: Vivace – Meno mosso – Tempo di Scherzo
- III Andantino doloroso
- IV Allegro con fuoco
- I Molto moderato – Allegro moderato
- II Scherzo. Allegro vivo
- III Elegie. Molto moderato
- IV Tarantella. Vivace
- No. 1 Nocturne
- No. 2 Valse-caprice
- No. 3 Mélodie russe
- No. 4 Scherzo espagnol
Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 60 (1896)
Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 64 (1898)
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