Building on the success of their first disc of Beethoven violin sonatas
(Alpha 240), which won a Diapason d’Or of the year (the magazine hailed
‘the birth of a great duo’) and ‘Choc’ de Classica, Lorenzo Gatto and
Julien Libeer continue their complete recording of the cycle.
‘Beethoven’s sonatas have become the core of our musical lives.
Rehearsed, tried out in concert, given a rest, rehearsed again.’ Since
performing the entire cycle over three consecutive evenings at Flagey in
Brussels in 2016, they have played them repeatedly, and they met again
at the end of 2017, at the Hilversum studio in Amsterdam, to record
three more sonatas: ‘Surprise, even now? . . . Anyone who frequents
Beethoven for a long time is no longer surprised to be surprised. For
him, everything is coherent, but nothing is written in advance.’ So they
experiment here again and Julien has chosen a piano with parallel
stringing: ‘The resonance of Chris Maene Straight Strung illuminates this music in a subtly different way. We enjoy ourselves.’ (Lorenzo
Gatto, Julien Libeer) Building on the success of their first disc of Beethoven violin sonatas
(Alpha 240), which won a Diapason d’Or of the year (the magazine hailed
‘the birth of a great duo’) and ‘Choc’ de Classica, Lorenzo Gatto and
Julien Libeer continue their complete recording of the cycle.
‘Beethoven’s sonatas have become the core of our musical lives.
Rehearsed, tried out in concert, given a rest, rehearsed again.’ Since
performing the entire cycle over three consecutive evenings at Flagey in
Brussels in 2016, they have played them repeatedly, and they met again
at the end of 2017, at the Hilversum studio in Amsterdam, to record
three more sonatas: ‘Surprise, even now? . . . Anyone who frequents
Beethoven for a long time is no longer surprised to be surprised. For
him, everything is coherent, but nothing is written in advance.’ So they
experiment here again and Julien has chosen a piano with parallel
stringing: ‘The resonance of Chris Maene Straight Strung illuminates this music in a subtly different way. We enjoy ourselves.’ (Lorenzo
Gatto, Julien Libeer)
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