Gade: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 Maria-Elisabeth Lott & Sontraud Speidel

• Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817 - 1890): Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 6:
• 1 Gade: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 6: I. Allegro di molto 08:51
• 2 Gade: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 6: II. Andante con moto 06:54
• 3 Gade: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 6: III. Allegro con espressione 10:18
• Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 21a:
• 4 Gade: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 21a: I. Adagio - Allegro di molto 07:48
• 5 Gade: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 21a: II. Larghetto - Allegro vivace 07:06
• 6 Gade: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 21a: III. Adagio - Allegro moderato - Allegro molto vivo 06:22
• Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 59:
• 7 Gade: Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 59: I. Allegro con fuoco 08:49
• 8 Gade: Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 59: II. Allegro non troppo e scherzando 04:23
• 9 Gade: Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 59: III. Romanze. Andantino con moto 05:41
• 10 Gade: Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 59: IV. Finale. Allegro vivace 05:48
• Volkstänze, Op. 62:
• 11 Gade: Volkstänze, Op. 62: No. 2, Allegro scherzando 02:45
• Total Runtime 01:14:45

Info for Gade: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3

This is a splendid fellow and musician - with this quote Robert Schumann characterized the then 26-year-old Danish composer-colleague Niels Wilhelm Gade in a letter of January 5, 1844 to his Dutch friend Johannes Verhulst. The works on this release are testimonies of three different creative periods of Gade: an early work is the first Sonata in A major, op. 6 (dedicated to Clara Schumann) - the second Sonata in D minor, op. 21, (dedicated to Robert Schumann) was composed in 1850 - the third Sonata in B flat major, op. 59, (dedicated to Wilma Normann-Neruda) belongs to the circle of his late compositions. Among Gade's last works is the collection Volkstänze im nordischen Charakter, op. 62, written in 1886 for the great violinist Joseph Joachim.

Maria-Elisabeth Lott, violin
Sontraud Speidel, piano

Prof. Maria-Elisabeth Lott
is internationally recognized as one of the best german violinists of her generation, she enthuses audiences with her natural and intensive musicality and her absolute immaculate technique.

Since her US-Debut at the age of thirteen she performed with many of the world's most celebrated orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Residentie Orkest The Hague, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, China National Orchestra, BBC Manchester Symphony Orchestra, and collaborated with conductors of the highest level including Fabio Luisi, Jaap van Zweden, Mario Venzago, John Nelson, Kirill Petrenko, Jonathan Nott and Daniel Harding.

Besides her soloistic playing Maria-Elisabeth Lott is also known as a dedicated chamber musician and appears regularly at the most significant international chamber music festivals. Among her chamber music partners are Emanuel Borok, Sontraud Speidel, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Christianne Stotijn, Reinhold Friedrich, Julien Quentin and Bobby McFerrin.

During her career Maria-Elisabeth Lott received prestigious awards, including the Karlsruher Kulturstipendium 2014 and the Bruno-Frey-Prize 2013. She was awarded the first Lichtenberger Music Prize of the Foundation Herfried Apel, the Musikförderpreis of Kulturfonds Baden and she received the "Prix d'éspoir" of the European Foundation for Culture. Maria-Elisabeth Lott has performed live for numerous radio and television stations across Europe including ARD, ZDF, Deutschlandradio Kultur, 3sat, SWR, BBC, Swiss Radio and for radio stations in the USA and Canada. In 1998 she won the competition of the Mozarteum Salzburg to play Mozart's youth violin. With this violin she made her debut recording for EMI Classics collaborating with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and Sontraud Speidel with works of Mozart.

At the young age of four Maria-Elisabeth Lott began her musical studies with Prof. Josef Rissin and already four years later she entered the University of Music Karlsruhe as a young student. After she completed the final degrees of Bachelor, Master and soloistic exam, she successfully graduated with highest distinction in 2015.

Since April 2017 she is professor for violin at the University of Music in Detmold.

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