Beethoven: The Complete Violin Sonatas Christopher White & Melanie Reinhard

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1:
• 1 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: I. Allegro con brio 09:29
• 2 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: II. Tema con variazioni. Andante con moto 08:20
• 3 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: III. Rondo. Allegro 04:58
• Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12 No. 2:
• 4 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12 No. 2: I. Allegro vivace 06:48
• 5 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12 No. 2: II. Andante, più tosto allegretto 04:38
• 6 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12 No. 2: III. Allegro piacevole 04:55
• Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 12 No. 3:
• 7 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 12 No. 3: I. Allegro con spirito 08:14
• 8 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 12 No. 3: II. Adagio con molt' espressione 06:45
• 9 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 12 No. 3: III. Rondo. Allegro molto 04:19
• Violin Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23:
• 10 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23: I. Presto 07:49
• 11 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23: II. Andante scherzoso, più allegretto 06:11
• 12 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23: III. Allegro molto 05:38
• Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring":
• 13 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring": I. Allegro 09:49
• 14 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring": II. Adagio molto espressivo 05:49
• 15 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring": III. Scherzo. Allegro molto 01:15
• 16 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring": IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo 06:55
• Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3:
• 17 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3: I. Allegro assai 06:41
• 18 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3: II. Tempo di minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso 07:41
• 19 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3: III. Allegro vivace 03:46
• Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer":
• 20 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer": I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto 11:45
• 21 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer": II. Andante con variazioni 16:28
• 22 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer": III. Finale. Presto 09:04
• Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30 No. 1:
• 23 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30 No. 1: I. Allegro 08:03
• 24 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30 No. 1: II. Adagio molto espressivo 08:18
• 25 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30 No. 1: III. Allegretto con variazioni 08:29
• Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2:
• 26 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2: I. Allegro con brio 08:09
• 27 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2: II. Adagio cantabile 09:15
• 28 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2: III. Scherzo. Allegro 03:38
• 29 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2: IV. Finale. Allegro 05:47
• Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96:
• 30 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96: I. Allegro moderato 10:28
• 31 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96: II. Adagio espressivo 06:14
• 32 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96: III. Scherzo. Allegro 02:00
• 33 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96: IV. Poco allegretto 09:00
• Total Runtime 03:56:38

Info for Beethoven: The Complete Violin Sonatas

Christopher White and Melanie Reinhard have been performing the Beethoven Violin Sonatas together for over thirty years, from when they first met in Toronto at the Royal Conservatory of Music. They have become a staple of their recitals in combination with other repertoire. Although the ten sonatas are mostly early works and not his most significant (compared to the string quartets for example) they are a charming and varied set of compositions. It is a shame that often one only hears the select (and famous) few such as the Spring or Kreutzer sonatas because some of the lesser-known sonatas (for instance Op. 12 No. 2 in A major or the glorious slow movement in the sixth sonata) deserve a much wider audience.

Christopher White, violin
Melanie Reinhard, piano

Christopher White
graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2007 with first-class honours, as well as awards for academic and practical music making. He recently completed Masters study at the Academy (gaining a distinction), in which he was supported by the Musicians Benevolent Fund and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He studies piano with Hamish Milne and Nicholas Walker, and piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek.

Christopher has studied Chopin with the late Prof. Alexander Satz, Messiaen with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Busoni with Ronald Stevenson. He has performed as a chamber musician in the Wigmore, Fairfield and Queen Elizabeth Halls, as well as the Clore Studio of the Royal Opera House with members of the Royal Ballet, and on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ programme. He contributed to the Ronald Stevenson 80th birthday celebrations at St. John’s, Smith Square in April 2008, playing Busoni. Other solo performances have taken him as far afield as Vienna and New Zealand, the latter for a Chopin recital on a piano donated to the city of Auckland by Paderewski.

As a chamber musician, Christopher has twice visited the International Musicians’ Seminar in Prussia Cove, Cornwall , studying trio and cello-piano duo repertoire with Valeria Szervansky. He made his Park Lane Group debut, with bassoonist Rosemary Burton, in January 2009 at the Purcell Room, London.

He has worked extensively for singers on lieder and song recitals as well as on opera scenes by nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers. He participated in the Das Lied competition in Berlin in February 2009, and the Young Songmakers Almanac series of Masterclasses in March of the same year. He is also a founder member and Artistic Director of the Little Opera Company (www.thelittleoperacompany.co.uk).

Christopher spent the summer of 2008 as a Piano Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Centre in Massachusetts, in which he worked with Maestro James Levine and assistant conductors from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, on a staged production of Kurt Weill’s opera Mahagonny, as well as playing the role of onstage pianist in the production. He also made no fewer than seven solo and chamber appearances at the Centre’s Seiji Ozawa Hall, participated in vocal masterclasses by Phyllis Curtin, Renee Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Martin Katz and James Levine, and contributed to the centennial celebrations for Elliot Carter, including preparing the world premiere performance of Mad Regales.

In addition to piano studies, Christopher is an organist and conductor. As a writer on music he is now a regular contributor to Piano Professional and International Piano magazines. His Masters dissertation focussed on the music of Mahler, and he is taking his Mahler studies further in his current Doctoral research, due for completion in 2011.

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