モーツァルト: ヴァイオリン・ソナタ全集 Vol.2

この卓越したデュオの高く評価されたモーツァルト・ツィクルスの第2弾(2枚組アルバム)。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

"Mozart Violin Sonatas," proclaims the main graphic of this release by pianist Cedric Tiberghien and violinist Alina Ibragimova. Then the track list title reads "Sonatas for keyboard and violin." In reality the program contains both types, for the two-CD set traverses much of Mozart's output for the two instruments, and his attitude toward the relationship between them changed over the course of his career. Programs including large groups of these sonatas inevitably include juvenilia, which really were sonatas for keyboard (a harpsichord originally) with a violin providing light ornamentation, but the later works, as much as anything else Mozart wrote, look forward to Beethoven. Tiberghien and Ibragimova succeed on two counts with this rather mixed bag: they alter the balance between the instruments according to the nature of the texture, and they structure the program well, with the early works, written when Mozart was about eight, serving as interludes between more substantial pieces. Sample the final Violin Sonata in A major, K 305, admired by Beethoven and containing strong links to the Beethoven Sonata Op. 12, No. 2, and contrast the silvery sound of Ibragimova's violin here to its restrained chirps in the earlier sonatas. A worthwhile Mozart chamber release.

2016年初春に日本でのソナタ全曲演奏会を完結させたイブラギモヴァとティベルギアンによるモーツァルト:ヴァイオリン・ソナタ全集。文句なしに素晴らしかった第1集に続いて今回の第2集に聴く自在で伸びやかな筆致も、実に墨痕鮮やか。一方で切所での緊迫や閃きを残像のように聴き手に刻み付ける。彼女たちの演奏を聴く楽しみは、音楽それ自体の全景を風通しよく俯瞰できるのと同時に、細部に生きる一瞬の美のいつ尽きるとも知れぬ交替が味わえることにあると勝手に思ってしまう。モーツァルトのヴァイオリン・ソナタでそれが愉しめるとは! 利発さ全開の初期作を織り交ぜるコンセプトも実に有効だ。
intoxicate (C)森山慶方