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Thomas Demenga, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Tabea Zimmermann - Johann Sebastian Bach / Sandor Veress (1993)

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Thomas Demenga, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Tabea Zimmermann - Johann Sebastian Bach / Sandor Veress (1993)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite No. 1 in G BWV 1007
Sándor Veress: Sonata for violin; Sonata for violoncello; Trio per Archi
Thomas Demenga, cello; Hansheinz Schneeberger, violin; Tabea Zimmermann, viola

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 262 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 156 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1477, 437 440-2 | 01:04:14

This disc continues Thomas Demenga's project of juxtaposing Bach cello suites with contemporary compositions—by Elliott Carter (12/90), Heinz Holliger, and now Sandor Veress, whose music we can hear growing out of, and away from, its neo-classical roots in Bach's polyphony.

Veress (1907–92) was born in Hungary, but spent more than half his life in Switzerland. Celebrated as a teacher, he has been unduly neglected as a composer. The Solo Violin Sonata (1935) may be conservative, but its neo-classicism is strongly felt and freshly imagined: there is nothing desiccated or mechanical here. By comparison, the early stages of the Trio (1954) might suggest a composer who has lost his way as he tries to keep up with shifting twentieth-century fashions. The piece is not a total success—the proportions of the first movement don't quite work—yet it adds up to a persuasive synthesis, a 'post-Bartok' idiom borrowing something from the contemporary series style without abject surrender to fragmented expressionism. In this respect, it is fascinating to compare Veress's works of this period with the early efforts of his pupils Kurtag and Ligeti.

The Solo Cello Sonata (1967) shows that Veress retained and refined his special feeling for a musical line which balances fantasy and logic. The spontaneity of his invention is well conveyed by all three performances, and Demenga offers polished, characterful Bach playing in the First Suite. The sound is forward and clear, the extra resonance evident in the Violin Sonata beefing-up an excellent performance quite unnecessarily.'

Review by Arnold Whittall, Gramophone

Although this album is the second of five on which cellist Thomas Demenga boldly pairs the cello suites of J. S. Bach with chamber works from modern composers, it was the last to reach my ears. As a longtime admirer of Sándor Veress—whose music I discovered, no less, on Heinz Holliger’s champion recording for ECM—I was excited to sit down and mull over this disc at long last.

Under Demenga’s bow, Bach’s Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello in G Major flickers with candlelit intimacy, honed like the wood from the instrument through which it emotes in that distinct and mineral tone. One imagines the room where it was first practiced, walls dancing in a quiet play of light and shadow: the player’s arched head, swinging hands, lithe fingers curling about the neck of the one who sings. As to the later suites, Demenga brings a unique mix of fluidity and rusticity to his sound, but above all pays attention to negative spaces in a way that any accomplished Bach interpreter must. We hear this in the pauses of the Courante and in the substantial attentions of the Sarabande, which he suffuses with a downright soulful air. And through the subtle dramatic shape he imparts to the Menuets he dances his way to a reflective brilliance in the Gigue.

With this perfect tetrahedron so thoughtfully folded before us, Veress’s 1935 Sonata for Violin may seem to break the symmetry. Yet the sonata, among Veress’s first published works, more importantly reveals an economy of notecraft on par with the Baroque master. Its slow-fast-slow structure betrays a more complex and organic geometry that begins with a jig of Bartókian proportions and seeps through the Adagio’s quicksand, only to rise again, grabbing the tail of gorgeous gypsy air into the fresh air of the final leap. Violinist Hansheinz Schneeberger, who made his ECM debut with Demenga on the latter’s first Bach pairing, plays this jewel with an intensity and focus familiar to anyone who enjoys Kim Kashkashian’s take on solo Hindemith. Despite the meager comparisons I’ve attempted to draw to other such composers, this music thrives with a forward-looking robustness all its own.

The light at the end of this tunnel comes in the form of Veress’s Sonata for Cello. Composed in Baltimore, the 1967 piece also takes a three-movement structure, this time marked “Dialogue,” “Monologue,” and “Epilogue,” which, as Holliger notes in an accompanying essay, takes us through an inner turmoil on the path toward self-liberation. For me, the most solitary movement is the Dialogue. Its dirge-like density betrays an ecstatic turmoil while keeping a hand cupped to the ear of some cherished and unrecoverable stillness. By contrast, the Monologue seems almost resolute as it traces fingers blindly through the ashes, from which the final movement rises in its own agitated way with assertion on the tongue. As a student of Veress, Holliger no doubt took on some of his mentor’s quirks, and the influence of said Epilogue rings clearly in Trema.

Violist Tabea Zimmermann joins the roster for the Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello, backing us into 1954. The 20-minute piece takes two movements, the first of which moves like molasses into a dulcet and spectral territory ahead of its time, while the second brings the patter of urgency to a journey of immense detail and brilliance.

Of this journey the lowly reviewer can make no definitive claims. Naysayers of the modern may make a delightful discovery or two along the way, even as they cling to Bach, while defenders of the twentieth century will immediately recognize that its music would be nowhere without him. Either way, I can only commend Demenga and ECM for an ongoing commitment to bring their programming alive with the benefits of (im)possibility.

Review by Tyran Grillo, ECMreviews.com

Thomas Demenga, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Tabea Zimmermann - Johann Sebastian Bach / Sandor Veress (1993)



Hansheinz Schneeberger, violin
Tabea Zimmermann, viola
Thomas Demenga, cello

Recorded December 1991 at Kirche Seon, Switzerland

Tracklist:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Suite Nr. 1 In G-Dur Für Violoncello Solo
01. - Prelude (2:09)
02. - Allemande (3:49)
03. - Courante (2:27)
04. - Sarabanse (2:31)
05. - Menuet 1 & 2 (3:23)
06. - Gigue (1:56)

Sándor Veress (1907-1992)

Sonata per violino solo
07. - Allegro (3:13)
08. - Adagio (4:59)
09. - Allegro Molto (3:39)

Sonata per violoncello solo
10. - Dialogo (7:01)
11. - Monologo (5:03)
12. - Epilogo (2:45)

Trio per archi
13. - Andante (11:35)
14. - Allegro Molto (9:44)


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Thomas Demenga, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Tabea Zimmermann - Johann Sebastian Bach / Sandor Veress (1993)

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