Brahms: Sonates pour violon et piano (Intégrale musique de chambre), Vol. 4 (Live) Pierre Fouchenneret & Éric Le Sage

• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78:
• 1 Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78: I. Vivace ma non troppo (Live) 10:30
• 2 Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78: II. Adagio (Live) 07:17
• 3 Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78: III. Allegro moderato (Live) 08:33
• Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100:
• 4 Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100: I. Allegro amabile (Live) 08:05
• 5 Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100: II. Andante tranquillo - Vivace (Live) 06:17
• 6 Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100: III. Allegretto grazioso quasi andante (Live) 04:59
• Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108:
• 7 Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108: I. Allegro alla breve (Live) 07:36
• 8 Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108: II. Adagio (Live) 04:26
• 9 Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108: III. Un poco presto e con sentimento (Live) 02:43
• 10 Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108: IV. Presto agitato (Live) 05:44
• F-A-E Sonata:
• 11 F-A-E Sonata: III. Scherzo (Live) 05:13
• Total Runtime 01:11:23

Info for Brahms: Sonates pour violon et piano (Intégrale musique de chambre), Vol. 4 (Live)

The sonatas for violin and piano, which were composed on holidays to lakeside forests in the midst of sublime nature where Brahms loved to spend his summers, contain all the contradictions unique to the man who described himself as a wanderer: daring and discipline, naïveté and sagacity, melancholy and joy. Pierre Fouchenneret and Eric Le Sage embark fervently on this adventure with this new volume in this crazy journey through Brahms’s complete chamber music works, charted by B Records. Of the project, Pierre Fouchenneret writes: “One crazy day, a few of us decided to embark on a project which, at the time, some people deemed impossible to achieve: to perform all of Brahms’s chamber music within only a few months. Every concert would be recorded… we are now a company, as in the theatre, bonded by an unstoppable urge, a definite notion of boldness, a shared perception of chamber music and a love for the repertoire.”

Pierre Fouchenneret, violin
Eric Le Sage, piano

Pierre Fourchenneret
one of the associated artists of the Foundation Singer Polignac, has enjoyed a strong recognition right back to his tender years. Thus as soon as his twelfth year he was granted the first prize for violin at the CNR - National Regional Conservatory - in Nice; then at sixteen the first prize for violin and chamber music at the CNSM - National Superior Conservatory of Music - in Paris; and he was a prize winner for Nataxis, and for the Grand Prize of the International Competition of chamber music in Bordeaux.Enriched by the exceptional teachings he benefited from Alain Babouchian at the CNR in Nice, Olivier Chartier at the CNSM in Paris and Devy Erlih, Pierre Fourchenneret has wished to transmit as well and has become a teacher in the Superior Pole of Bordeaux.

This recognition also gives him the pleasure to collaborate with the most gifted musicians of his generation and to give performances on the greatest national and international stages. This is how in 2013 he founds the quartet Strada with François Salque, Sarah Nemtanu and Lise Berthaud.

His virtuosity, "his intense, precise and colourful playing" (Classica) and his buoyancy are appreciated by French and international orchestras as the ones in Bordeaux Aquitaine, Dijon, the philharmonic in Nice, Brno, the Baltic in St Petersburg. With a passion for chamber music, he is also the violinist of the string trio 71 together with Eric Picard and Nicolas Bone.

In the course of his career as a soloist and as a chamber musician, his first record devoted to Mendelssohn trios comes out in 2007. It will be followed by a series of records, all of them unanimously praised by the critics. Thus he is awarded the Choc Classica for a record devoted to the French composer George Louis Onslow. In 2015 he publishes no less than three opus; the first one is dedicated to the quartet with piano no. 3 opus 3 by Mendelssohn; in the second one "Bohème", he interprets the Bach Chaconne, the Kodaly Duo with François Salque and the second Bartok sonata for violin and piano with Romain Descharmes. Finally for the third one, again with Romain Descharmes he records Beethoven's complete sonatas for violin and piano. Driven by his absolute passion for this composer, he deepens his work and at the beginning of this year 2016 he releases a record of his last two quartets. The year 2016 will be marked by numerous projects among which a record featuring the complete music for violin of Fauré. In 2017 he will start a cycle of the complete Brahms chamber music alongside Eric Lesage.

The work done by Pierre Fourchenneret which we can discover in particular with his different recordings, reflects his perpetual search for an aesthetic that is pure and free of affect, but also his deep love and respect of the text.

Wonderful on stage, Pierre Fourchenneret can also take risks and surprise his audience: "It was so revealing to listen to the quality of the silence of the public absolutely seized […] Overwhelming is the word that was on the music lovers' lips, in a state of shock"; "a large public had come and was conscious of their privilege in attending a rare concert" (Ouest France).

This album contains no booklet.