Leoš Janáček - 1919 - Boulanger, Janáček, Elgar & Debussy (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The 1910s were a period of extraordinary turbulence and change. Revolutions and war left monarchies and empires fallen and the social order irreversibly altered. The music on this album emerges from various points in that eventful decade, but all of it records vividly a world that was shortly to vanish forever – a world to which the year 1919 was already a coda.

Indeed, the pieces chosen by Benjamin Baker and Daniel Lebhardt for their second Delphian recording also speak from a decade of musical endings. Claude Debussy and Lili Boulanger both died in 1918, two extraordinary careers cut short early; Baker and Lebhardt’s programme includes some of their last works. Edward Elgar lived on for another fifteen years, but wrote little more to match the four major compositions which emerged from his pen in 1918 and 1919.

Leoš Janáček, by contrast, was about to enter an astonishing Indian summer of creativity; his violin sonata stands on the cusp, inspired by Janáček’s hopes that the war might lead to independence for his beloved Czech lands.


TRACKLIST

1. Benjamin Baker - Sonata for Violin and Piano: I. Con moto
2. Benjamin Baker - Sonata for Violin and Piano: II. Ballada: Con moto
3. Benjamin Baker - Sonata for Violin and Piano: III. Allegretto
4. Benjamin Baker - Sonata for Violin and Piano: IV. Adagio
5. Benjamin Baker - Two Pieces for Violin and Piano: No. 1, Nocturne
6. Benjamin Baker - Two Pieces for Violin and Piano No. 2, Cortège
7. Benjamin Baker - Sonata for Violin and Piano: I. Allegro vivo
8. Benjamin Baker - Sonata for Violin and Piano: II. Intermède: Fantasque et léger
9. Benjamin Baker - Sonata for Violin and Piano: III. Finale: Très animé
10. Benjamin Baker - D’un matin de printemps
11. Benjamin Baker - Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 82: I. Allegro
12. Benjamin Baker - Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 82: II. Romance: Andante
13. Benjamin Baker - Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 82: III. Allegro, non troppo



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