Norwegian composer Christian Sinding has suffered obscurity due to the fact that, at the age of 85 and a few weeks before his death, he joined Norway's Nazi party under circumstances far more questionable than those involving certain German musicians whose records were expunged. As the high opus numbers shown on this disc of violin-and-piano music reveal, he was very popular for a long time, in Norway and beyond, and he's certainly a good candidate for the kind of revival project in which the Naxos label has specialized. He ...
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Norwegian composer Christian Sinding has suffered obscurity due to the fact that, at the age of 85 and a few weeks before his death, he joined Norway's Nazi party under circumstances far more questionable than those involving certain German musicians whose records were expunged. As the high opus numbers shown on this disc of violin-and-piano music reveal, he was very popular for a long time, in Norway and beyond, and he's certainly a good candidate for the kind of revival project in which the Naxos label has specialized. He was a staple of anthologies of classical music for home use, and the pieces on the program here give a good idea of why. Sinding was no Grieg, but he could spin a good melody in the small scale and draw a logical larger structure from modest material in a piece like the Cantus Doloris, Op. 78 (track 1). The other piece that definitively departs from the conventional is the Suite im alten Stil, Op. 10 (Suite in the Old Style), written in 1906 and a favorite of no less than Jascha...
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Add this copy of Christian Sinding: Music for Violin and Piano, Vol. 1 to cart. $32.47, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Naxos.
