{"product_id":"beethoven-osostowicz-tong-beethoven-plus-2-2-cd","title":"Beethoven \/ Osostowicz \/ Tong - Beethoven Plus 2 [2 CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eVolume II of SOMM Recordings' Beethoven Plus series sees violinist Krysia Osostowicz and pianist Daniel Tong reuniting to conclude their ambitious project to commission 10 leading contemporary composers to write 'companion' pieces for - and inspired by - Beethoven's seminal set of 10 Violin Sonatas. The result is a fascinating conversation between past and present in which Beethoven's mastery of the form prompts illuminating - and often surprising - commentary from entirely modern perspectives. Volume II includes Beethoven's three most substantial Sonatas - Opp.30 No.2, 47 and 96 - and the enigmatic A major (Op.30 No.1); works that go to the very heart of the composer's life, aspirations and music. New here are complementary and contrasting works that include Kurt Schwertsik's probing, sincerely touching two-movement Unterwegs Nach Heiligenstadt, which begins in angst and ends in sublime C major; Matthew Taylor's whirlwind Tarantella Furiosa, a virtuosic encore of sorts to Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata; and Philip Ashworth's Air, a lilting, lyrical commentary that seems to offer a response, in it's conclusion, to Beethoven's famously rhetorical query \"Must it be so?\" David Matthews' Sonatina completes the new commissions in a compact, concentrated form that emulates Beethoven with almost forensic attention to detail, even while opening out his interrogation of the Op.96 Sonata (Beethoven's last such work for violin and piano) with challenging demands on both violin and piano. Beethoven Plus was presented in a series of concerts by Krysia Osostowicz and Daniel Tong (who provides informative booklet notes) at the Kings Place, London in 2015 and has since been performed in leading venues around the UK. Reviewing Volume I, Gramophone hailed \"Osostowicz and Tong's interpretative style [as] patient, affectionate, warmly conversational, sensitive to harmonic detail\", it's reviewer adding: \"I think I may have sighed with pleasure\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnterwegs Nach Heiligenstadt, Op. 114: I. Energico (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnterwegs Nach Heiligenstadt, Op. 114: II. Tranquillo (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 6 In A Major, Op. 30 No. 1: I. Allegro (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 6 In A Major, Op. 30 No. 1: II. Adagio Molto Espressivo (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 6 In A Major, Op. 30 No. 1: III. Allegretto Con Variazioni (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 9 In A Major, Op. 47 \u0026amp;quot;Kreutzer\u0026amp;quot;: I. Adagio Sostenuto. Presto (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 9 In A Major, Op. 47 \u0026amp;quot;Kreutzer\u0026amp;quot;: II. Andante Con Variazioni (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 9 In A Major, Op. 47 \u0026amp;quot;Kreutzer\u0026amp;quot;: III. Presto (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTarantella Furiosa (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAir (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 7 In C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2 \u0026amp;quot;Eroica\u0026amp;quot;: I. Allegro Con Brio (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 7 In C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2 \u0026amp;quot;Eroica\u0026amp;quot;: II. Adagio Cantabile (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 7 In C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2 \u0026amp;quot;Eroica\u0026amp;quot;: III. Scherzo. Allegro (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 7 In C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2 \u0026amp;quot;Eroica\u0026amp;quot;: IV. Finale. Allegro (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSonatina For Violin \u0026amp;amp; Piano, Op. 128: I. Allegro Moderato (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSonatina For Violin \u0026amp;amp; Piano, Op. 128: II. Adagio Espressivo (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSonatina For Violin \u0026amp;amp; Piano, Op. 128: III. Scherzo. Allegro (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSonatina For Violin \u0026amp;amp; Piano, Op. 128: IV. Molto Vivace (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 10 In G Major, Op. 96 \u0026amp;quot;Cock-Crow\u0026amp;quot;: I. Allegro Moderato (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 10 In G Major, Op. 96 \u0026amp;quot;Cock-Crow\u0026amp;quot;: II. Adagio Espressivo (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 10 In G Major, Op. 96 \u0026amp;quot;Cock-Crow\u0026amp;quot;: III. Scherzo. Allegro (Live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eViolin Sonata No. 10 In G Major, Op. 96 \u0026amp;quot;Cock-Crow\u0026amp;quot;: IV. 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