Beethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas Teiko Maehashi

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1:
• 1 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: I. Allegro con brio 09:17
• 2 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: II. Tema con variazioni. Andante con moto 06:43
• 3 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: III. Rondo. Allegro 05:04
• Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12 No. 2:
• 4 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12 No. 2: I. Allegro vivace 06:52
• 5 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12 No. 2: II. Andante piu tosto Allegretto 05:10
• 6 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12 No. 2: III. Allegro piacevole 05:08
• Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 12 No. 3:
• 7 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 12 No. 3: I. Allegro con spirito 08:20
• 8 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 12 No. 3: II. Adagio con molta espressione 05:47
• 9 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 12 No. 3: III. Rondo. Allegro molto 04:16
• Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23:
• 10 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23: I. Presto 07:50
• 11 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23: II. Andante scherzoso piu Allegretto 07:28
• 12 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23: III. Allegro molto 05:21
• Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24:
• 13 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24: I. Allegro 09:52
• 14 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24: II. Adagio molto espressivo 05:27
• 15 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24: III. Scherzo. Allegro molto 01:16
• 16 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24: IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo 06:39
• Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30 No. 1:
• 17 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30 No. 1: I. Allegro 07:27
• 18 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30 No. 1: II. Adagio molto espressivo 06:37
• 19 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30 No. 1: III. Allegretto con Variazioni 08:16
• Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2:
• 20 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2: I. Allegro con brio 07:54
• 21 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2: II. Adagio cantabile 08:37
• 22 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2: III. Scherzo. Allegro 03:28
• 23 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2: IV. Finale. Allegro 05:15
• Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3:
• 24 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3: I. Allegro assai 06:43
• 25 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3: II. Tempo di Minuetto ma molto moderato e grazioso 07:01
• 26 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3: III. Allegro vivace 03:41
• Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47:
• 27 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47: I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto 14:11
• 28 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47: II. Andante con Variazioni 15:12
• 29 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47: III. Presto 09:01
• Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96:
• 30 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96: I. Allegro moderato 09:57
• 31 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96: II. Adagio espressivo 05:14
• 32 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96: III. Scherzo. Allegro 02:00
• 33 Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96: IV. Poco Allegretto 08:41
• Total Runtime 03:49:45

Info for Beethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas

The masters have finally teamed up in the street for a collection of Beethoven's 10 violin sonatas, the essence of the musician's innovative chamber music works, which will finally be presented to the world by this rare violinist, who celebrates the 60th anniversary of his performing career in 2022 and his 80th birthday in 2023. Maebashi recorded "Spring (No. 5)" and "Kreutzer (No. 9)," two of Beethoven's most popular violin sonatas, with pianist Christoph Eschenbach and released them in 1993, but never took up Beethoven's sonatas in a recording after that. After that, he never recorded Beethoven's sonatas, and this is the first recording of the complete works in more than 30 years. Spring" and "Kreutzer" are re-recordings, and one can hear the deepening of Maebashi's art in the 30 years that have passed. His partner this time is Vahan Mardirossian, a pianist and conductor from Armenia, who is also active as a conductor.The two musicians, who have performed together in Maebashi in Japan for the past several years and trust each other's artistry, will record 10 sonatas written by Gakusei for violin and piano over a period of more than two weeks from 2023 to 2024 at the Clarazal, a famous indoor concert hall in Gifu, Japan.

Teiko Maehashi, violin
Vahan Mardirossian, piano

Teiko Maehashi
Born in Tokyo, Teiko Maehashi started her violin lesson with Anna Ono at the age of 5 and later studied with Hideo Saito at TOHO Senior High School. At 17, she was chosen as the first Japanese exchange student in Soviet Union National Leningrad Conservatory (today’s St Petersburg State Conservatory) as a part of celebrating the 100th anniversary of its foundation and had studied with Michael Vaiman for three years. After her graduation, she moved to New York to study at the Juilliard School under Robert Mann and Dorothy DeLay, and later, to Switzerland to be trained by Joseph Szigeti and Nathan Milstein.

Teiko Maehashi made her brilliant debut under the baton of Leopold Stokowski at Carnegie Hall. She has developed her performance activities not only in Japan but internationally, playing with the outstanding representative orchestras which include Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre national de France, Cleveland Orchestra, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, under the great conductors such as Mehta, Rostropovich, Kempe, Sawallisch, Masur, and Ozawa. The United Nations Day Concert that she was invited with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande was broadcasted world-wide.

Since her debut album “Zigeunerweisen,” Teiko Maehashi has enthusiastically worked on recordings; J.S.Bach’s “The Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin,” Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” the Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky concerti, and a box set of 6 CDs for 100 selected short violin pieces.

Besides, she planned concerts whose programs are constructed with short pieces for audiences who are not familiar with listening to classical music and gave recitals in various halls of Japan such as Suntory Hall (Tokyo) and The Symphony Hall (Osaka). They won great popularity. Her contribution toward research of works by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms, who can be said as the origin of Violin music is, playing Beethoven’s sonata with Jörg Demus and all Brahms’ sonatas with Anatol Ugorski. Moreover, in Budapest and Tokyo, she obtained a reputation by performing Mozart’s concerto with Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. In 2014, she performed Beethoven’s string quartets with Sadao Harada (cello), Takumi Kubota (violin), Yoshiko Kawamoto (viola) as a string quartet and thus she has also been playing active roles in chamber music.

Teiko Maehashi received several awards including the Japan Art Academy in 2004, the 37th Exxon Mobil (current the Tonen General Group) Music Prize Western Music Section Award in 2007, the Medal with Purple Ribbon in spring, 2011. She plays on Guarnerius del Gesu violin, dated 1736.

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