Suk - Poulenc - Bach Duo Kriegbaum Breuer

• Josef Suk (1874 - 1935): 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano:
• 1 Suk: 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano: 1. Quasi Ballata 04:49
• 2 Suk: 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano: 2. Appassionato 04:17
• 3 Suk: 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano: 3. Un Poco Triste 04:07
• 4 Suk: 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano: 4. Burleska 03:32
• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963): Sonate Pour Violon Et Piano:
• 5 Poulenc: Sonate Pour Violon Et Piano: 1. Allegro Con Fuoco 07:10
• 6 Poulenc: Sonate Pour Violon Et Piano: 2. Intermezzo 06:33
• 7 Poulenc: Sonate Pour Violon Et Piano: 3. Presto Tragico 05:58
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Sonate Für Clavier Und Violine:
• 8 Bach: Sonate Für Clavier Und Violine: 1. Siciliano. Largo 04:46
• 9 Bach: Sonate Für Clavier Und Violine: 2. Allegro 05:12
• 10 Bach: Sonate Für Clavier Und Violine: 3. Adagio 04:05
• 11 Bach: Sonate Für Clavier Und Violine: 4. Allegro 03:32
• Total Runtime 54:01

Info for Suk - Poulenc - Bach

The Duo Kriegbaum.Breuer has been in existence for 15 years and, in addition to the classical-romantic repertoire, is primarily dedicated to contemporary chamber music and classical modernism. They discovered chamber music during their studies and found each other in the process.

For them, duo playing is communication, shaping relationships, exploring tensions and working out creative solutions. Both the joint interplay and each instrument on its own are under the sign of balance and sophisticated sound tuning. Kriegbaum and Breuer play regularly in the Stuttgart area, for example at the International Piano Weekend in Holzgerlingen or at the Dätzingen Castle Concerts.

Josef Suk, who only found his own tonal language after the death of his father-in-law Antonin Dvorak, wrote this work for Karel Hoffmann, with whom he founded the "Czech String Quartet". The four pieces push both instruments to their technical limits, a virtuoso struggle and trial of strength in late romantic harmony.

Francis Poulenc wrote this sonata in 1943 for the French violin virtuoso Ginette Neveu. After her tragic death in a plane crash, he reworked the final movement. Although the work is relatively rarely played, it is a key work of the 20th century, combining different styles.

The beginning of the violin sonata sounds as if something is being torn to shreds, a violin tremolo races upwards in sixteenth notes, and after three eighth notes plucked as if in zigzags, the violin plunges into a racing theme, driven and propulsive, in which there is still a quite unexpected popular beat theme.... A musical rollercoaster ride that explores the borderlands of emotion and sets them against and in conflict with each other.

Johann Sebastian Bach. His sonatas for violin and piano are the first works for this instrumentation in which both instruments have equal rights. Respectful coexistence enables joint mediation and a conversation between the instruments at eye level. As Court Kapellmeister in Köthen, Bach devoted himself primarily to instrumental music.

instrumental music. There he composed, among other works, the sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014-1019, which have survived as a complete cycle. Violinist and pianist are equally challenged here. These sonatas - together with Bach's flute and viola da gamba sonatas - lay the foundation for the duo sonata in the modern sense. The purely accompanying function of the basso continuo gives way to an independent piano part that gives each sonata an individual profile.

"The way we interpret is to ask ourselves what the music wants, where it is taking us." - Duo Kriegbaum.Breuer

Bettina Kriegbaum, violin
Anja Breuer, piano

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