Enescu: Complete Works Violin & Piano

Remus Azoitei, a distinctive player whose sound world echoes Enescu's own. No need to look any further: this is a first-rate collection.
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George Enescu: Complete Works for Violin and Piano
Remus Azoitei, violin
Eduard Stan, piano

Label: Hänssler Classic
Catalogue number: CD 98.240
Recorded: 14-17 March 2006
Recording location: Radio Bremen Studio, Germany
Violin: 1699 Antonio Stradivari “Kustendyke”, courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music
Piano: Steinway & Sons D, Hamburg

Disc 1
Impressions d’enfance for Violin and Piano, op. 28 (1940)
22:23
1
Fiddler
3:27
2
Old Beggar
3:03
3
Stream at the Bottom of the Garden
2:47
4
The Bird in the Cage and the Cuckoo on the Wall
2:17
5
Lullaby
1:44
6
Cricket
0:25
7
Moonlight through the Window
2:34
8
Wind in the Chimney
0:22
9
Storm outside, at Night
2:11
10
Sunrise
3:33
Sonata in A Minor for Piano and Violin (“Torso” Sonata, 1911)
11
Moderato
16:28
Sonata No. 2 in F Minor for Piano and Violin, op. 6 (1899)
22:08
12
I. Assez mouvementé
7:52
13
II. Tranquillement
6:48
14
III. Vif
7:28
Total Time
61:34

 

Disc 2
Sonata No. 3 in A Minor for Piano and Violin, Op. 25 “In Romanian Folk Character“ (1926)
25:10
1
Moderato malinconico
8:24
2
Andante sostenuto e misterioso
8:34
3
Allegro con brio, ma non troppo mosso
8:14
4
Ballade (1895)
4:39
5
Impromptu concertant (1903)
5:17
6
Andante malinconico (1951)
2:26
7
Tarantelle (1895) *
4:10
8
Hora Unirei (1917) *
2:06
Sonata No. 2 in D Major for Piano and Violin, Op. 2 (1897)
24:08
9
Allegro vivo
7:27
10
Quasi adagio
9:03
11
Allegro
7:38
Total Time
69:35