Salvatore Accardo

Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Johannes Brahms Sonaten op.78, op.100, op. 108 (2010/2021)
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Brahms was a severe critic of his own work, often assailed with uncertainty and reluctant to publish works he considered immature or incomplete. With the exception of the Scherzo in C flat for the Sonata F.A.e. he made his first violin solo work known to the public only at the age of forty five with the publication of the Concerto in D major, op. 77. Cheered by the great success he had had in the summer of that year, 1878, he set to work composing the first of his three splendid violin sonatas. They are the only ones we know, as three previous similar sonatas were destroyed by the composer himself. Brahms wrote these three masterpieces during three happy and fruitful summer holidays which he spent away from the city, inspired by the mountain scenery.

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Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV 526, 296, 305 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:40 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart.” With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, loving and at the same time masculine powerful character, which expresses itself with inventiveness and a mastery perhaps only comparable to Bach. That is why it is so difficult to play Mozart’s music “correctly”, as it often expresses the deepest with the smallest number of notes. Technical mastery alone is not enough. There must also be the ability of the heart to feel and create music as a form of genuine, loving communication with fellow human beings. No other classical composer, for example, entitled a movement with the epithet “amoroso” (Mozart’s designation for the Andante of the B flat major Sonata K. 281).

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Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV 481, 303 – Variations KV 359, 360 (2022)
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“Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart.” With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, loving and at the same time masculine powerful character, which expresses itself with inventiveness and a mastery perhaps only comparable to Bach. That is why it is so difficult to play Mozart’s music “correctly”, as it often expresses the deepest with the smallest number of notes. Technical mastery alone is not enough. There must also be the ability of the heart to feel and create music as a form of genuine, loving communication with fellow human beings. No other classical composer, for example, entitled a movement with the epithet “amoroso” (Mozart’s designation for the Andante of the B flat major Sonata K. 281).

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Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV 379, 380, 547 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:04 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © fonè Records

“Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart.” With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, loving and at the same time masculine powerful character, which expresses itself with inventiveness and a mastery perhaps only comparable to Bach. That is why it is so difficult to play Mozart’s music “correctly”, as it often expresses the deepest with the smallest number of notes. Technical mastery alone is not enough. There must also be the ability of the heart to feel and create music as a form of genuine, loving communication with fellow human beings. No other classical composer, for example, entitled a movement with the epithet “amoroso” (Mozart’s designation for the Andante of the B flat major Sonata K. 281).

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Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV 376 ,377, 372, 402, 404 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:00 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © fonè Records

“Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart.” With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, loving and at the same time masculine powerful character, which expresses itself with inventiveness and a mastery perhaps only comparable to Bach. That is why it is so difficult to play Mozart’s music “correctly”, as it often expresses the deepest with the smallest number of notes. Technical mastery alone is not enough. There must also be the ability of the heart to feel and create music as a form of genuine, loving communication with fellow human beings. No other classical composer, for example, entitled a movement with the epithet “amoroso” (Mozart’s designation for the Andante of the B flat major Sonata K. 281).

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Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Canino – Brahms: Violin Sonatas (2001)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:36 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Fonè Records

Internationally acclaimed violinist Salvatore Accardo pairs with pianist Bruno Canino for a brilliant delivery of Brahms’ sonatas for violin and piano on this expertly recorded audiophile album.

Brahms was a severe critic of his own work, often assailed with uncertainty and reluctant to publish works he considered immature or incomplete. With the exception of the Scherzo in C flat for the Sonata F.A.E. he made his first violin solo work known to the public at only the age of 45 with the publication of the Concerto in D major, op. 77. Cheered by the great success he had had in the summer of that year, 1878, he set to work composing the first of his three splendid violin sonatas. They are the only ones we know, as three previous similar sonatas were destroyed by the composer himself. Brahms wrote these three masterpieces during three happy and fruitful summer holidays which he spent away from the city, inspired by the mountain scenery. Sonatas op. 78, 100 and 108 are full of lyricism and a lied quality which rarely gives way to virtuosity (in particular the first two), although they clearly reveal Brahms’ mastery in shaping thematic material, while at the same time creating a harmonious balance between the violin and the piano. The composer felt supremely confident with the piano and the instrument often takes the lead in melodic construction.
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