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Violin Sonata No. 3 (Enescu)

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339:, piano. Recorded 6 January 1936. A Victor Musical Masterpiece. 78 rpm recording, 3 sound discs: analog, 78  rpm, monaural, 12 in. Victor DM 318 (set: automatic sequence); Victor 16892; 16893; 16894; Victor AM 318 (set: automatic sequence). Camden, N.J.: Victor, 1940. Reissued together with other material. CD recording, 1 sound disc: digital, monaural, 4¾ in. EMI Classics 7243 5 65962 2. EMI Références series. : EMI Classics, 1996. 960: 984: 396:; George Enescu: Sonata No. 3 in A minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 25. Yehudi Menuhin, violin (1st, 3rd, and 4th works); Ravi Shankar, sitar (2nd and 3rd works); Alla Rakha, tabla (1st work); Hephzibah Menuhin, piano (4th work). LP recording, 1 sound disc: analogue, stereo, 33⅓ rpm, 12 in. Angel S 36418. London: Angel, 1967. 39: 426:
George Enescu: Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 6; Violin Sonata "Torso"; Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 25. Adelina Oprean, violin; Justin Oprean, piano. CD recording, 1 disc: digital, stereo, 4¾ in. Hyperion CDA66484. London: Hyperion Records Ltd,
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form using a refrain whose melody is reminiscent of a bear dance from northern Moldavia. Despite the sectional form, the thematic material is subjected to continuous variation—a process made particularly clear in the C section, which is structured as a miniature
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in three parts: a long opening section filled with introspection and poetic facets, where the violin plays almost entirely in harmonics, followed by a contrasting central section in folk style, and a return of the opening material with a concluding, gentle coda.
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The sonata prompted enthusiasm immediately at the time of its premiere, and has ever since been the composition by Enescu that has received the greatest amount of attention in the musicological and critical literature, with the possible exception of his opera,
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is confined almost entirely to material from the first thematic group, but after the recapitulation there is an extended coda that brings together motivic fragments from both groups. The transformation of the material from the lyrical, songlike style of the
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George Enuscu: Sonata No. 3 in A Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 26 (dans le style populaire roumaine). Christian Ferras, violin; Pierre Barbizet, piano. LP recording, 1 sound disc: analog, 33⅓ rpm, stereo, 12 in. Odeon S 80749. : Odeon,
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bătrînească" (old men's dance). The second thematic group brings a contrasting atmosphere of sobriety and intensified differentiation of colour, a characteristic that will return for further development in the second movement. The
370:: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano, Op. 40. Diane Andersen, violin; André Gertler, piano. LP recording, 1 disc: analogue, 33⅓ rpm, stereo, 12 in. Supraphon 50483, Czechoslovakia: Supraphon, 1962. 236:
Without ever quoting actual folk tunes, the material possesses the authenticity of a sort of "super folklore". The violin is cast in the role of a gypsy fiddle, and the writing for the piano imitates the
356:, piano (1st work); Alexandru Radulescu, viola; George Enescu, piano (2nd work). LP recording, 1 sound disc: analog, 33⅓ rpm, monaural, 10 in. Electrecord ECD 95. : Electrecord, 1950s. 196:, in January 1927 by the composer and the pianist Nicolae Caravia, who repeated it shortly afterward in Bucharest. Enescu and Caravia also gave the Paris premiere in March 1927, in the 363:: Sonata for Violin and Piano. Rafael Druian, violin; John Simms, piano. LP recording, 1 sound disc: 33⅓ rpm, monaural, 12 in. Mercury MG 80001. : Mercury Records, 1956. 216:
and again a few years later with Céliny Chaillez-Richez. A performance took place in May 1946 with Yehudi Menuhin playing the violin part, accompanied on the piano by the composer.
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Cosma, Viorel. 1981. "Patriotische Bedeutungen einer absoluten Uraufführung: Warum ließ Enescu die Sonate 'in rumänischem Volkscharakter' erstmals in Oradea ertönen?". In
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The Third Violin Sonata was written in a span of about four months in 1926 at a time when Enescu was also occupied with the late stages of work on the opera
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Rădelescu, Speranța. 1981a. "Caractère spécific roumain dans le langage harmonique de la 'III Sonate pour piano et violon' de Georges Enesco". In
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and development into the persistent dance rhythms of the recapitulation bestows upon the movement the overall impression of a two-part
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Ciortea, Tudor. 1968. "Sonata a III-a pentru pian și vioară și unele principii ale creației muzicii de cameră la George Enescu".
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2 vols, edited by Mircea Voicana, 1: 459–586 (part 3, chapters 7–8). Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România.
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presented in continuous and supple lines in the piano and more hesitantly in the violin. When this material returns in the
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Rădelescu, Speranța. 1981b. "La connotation 'populaire' dans la 'III Sonate pour piano et violon' de Georges Enesco". In
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George Enescu: Sonata No. 3 in A minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 25 ("in the popular Roumanian style").
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Rațiu, Adrian. 1981. "Modalismul Sonatei a III-a pentru pian și viorară 'în caracter popular românesc'". In
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Hoffman, Alfred, and Myriam Marbe. 1971. "Maturitatea: Limpeziri (1919–1926); Mari turnee (1927–1930)". In
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on piano, and the composer himself recorded the work twice as a violinist, in 1943 with
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George Enescu: Sonata No.  3 in A minor for violin and piano, Op. 25;
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George Enescu: Sonata No.  3 for Violin and Piano in A minor, Op. 25.
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George Enescu: Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in A Minor, Op. 25 (
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George Enescu: Sonata No. 3 in A minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 25;
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composition written in 1926 by the Romanian composer
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Enesciana II–III: Georges Enesco, musicien complexe
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Index

Chamber music
George Enescu

A minor
Opus
Franz Kneisel
Oradea
A minor
Op.
chamber music
George Enescu
Franz Kneisel
Œdipe
Oradea
Salle Gaveau
Alfred Cortot
Yehudi Menuhin
Hephzibah Menuhin
Dinu Lipatti
Romanian Rhapsodies
cimbalom
kobza
movements
sonata-allegro form
thematic group
recapitulation
horă
development
exposition
rhapsody

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