{"id":11804,"date":"2013-04-22T07:50:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T12:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=11804"},"modified":"2013-04-22T07:50:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T12:50:36","slug":"album-review-duo-concertante-creates-beautiful-box-of-beethoven-sonatas-for-violin-and-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/04\/22\/album-review-duo-concertante-creates-beautiful-box-of-beethoven-sonatas-for-violin-and-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Album review: Duo Concertante creates beautiful box of Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/concertante.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11809\" alt=\"concertante\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/concertante.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/concertante.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/concertante-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canadian violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves, a husband and wife who perform as Duo Concertante, have recorded beautiful interpretations of all 10 sonatas for violin and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven for the Marquis Classics label.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The two Newfoundland-based teachers impress right from the first track of this three-CD box, which features the E-flat Major <em>Sonata<\/em> Op. 12 No. 3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/beethoven.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11808\" alt=\"Marquis-DuoConcertante-Selected\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/beethoven.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/beethoven.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/beethoven-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a>They have organized the pieces so that each disc is an all-Beethoven programme in and of itself, with CD2 collecting two of the most popular of the pieces: the <em>&#8220;Spring&#8221;<\/em> (Op. 24) and <em>&#8220;Kreutzer&#8221;<\/em> (Op. 47) <em>Sonatas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dahn has impeccable control over her bow. Her playing is modern but never heavy-handed, clearly influenced by some of the livelier bowing techniques promoted by historically informed soloists.<\/p>\n<p>Steeves is the ideal partner in these pieces, matching Dahn nuance for nuance in phrasing, dynamics and rhythm. It may seem self-evident to do this, but the degree to which two artists play as one is not something we can take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>As the CD booklet points out, these 10 sonatas are a musical landmark not just for their expressive power, but because they represent the first point at which a composer treats both instruments as equals. There is no accompanist here, just two collaborators. How fitting that they be performed by life partners.<\/p>\n<p>The recording made at the Glenn Gould Studio last year is so good right down to the tiniest of details that it deserves to be called a reference in the contemporary performance of these 10 great pieces.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this album, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marquisclassics.com\/517_beet.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear Steeves and Dahn in action tonight at Gallery 345. Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallery345.com\/performances.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves, a husband and wife who perform as Duo Concertante, have recorded beautiful interpretations of all 10 sonatas for violin and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven for the Marquis Classics label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,10,77,36,47,51,52,1,68],"tags":[6451,206,485,1096,2116,6471,3060],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/duo3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-34o","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11804"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}