Fireworks: Virtuoso Violin Music | BIS BISSACD1652

Fireworks: Virtuoso Violin Music

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISSACD1652

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 5th January 2009

Contents

Works

Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Figaro

Medtner
Fairy Tale

Francescatti
Polka

Schumann
Traumerei

Kreisler
La Gitana

Ries
La Capricciosa

Halffter
Habanera

Wieniawski
Fantaisie brillante sur ‘Faust’

Gardner
Prelude

Rota
Improvviso in re minore

Bock/Williams
The Fiddler on the Roof

Bloch
Nigun

Ravel
Tzigane

Artists

Vadim Gluzman (violin)
Angela Yoffe (piano)

Works

Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Figaro

Medtner
Fairy Tale

Francescatti
Polka

Schumann
Traumerei

Kreisler
La Gitana

Ries
La Capricciosa

Halffter
Habanera

Wieniawski
Fantaisie brillante sur ‘Faust’

Gardner
Prelude

Rota
Improvviso in re minore

Bock/Williams
The Fiddler on the Roof

Bloch
Nigun

Ravel
Tzigane

Artists

Vadim Gluzman (violin)
Angela Yoffe (piano)

About

Following on from his Tchaikovsky and Glazunov violin concertos disc, Vadim Gluzman now presents a disc of virtuoso violin music by a range of different composers, with a sparkling programme fit for any of those virtuosos of days gone by. Indeed, several of them appear in the list of contents in the unaccustomed roles of composer or arranger: Heifetz himself has arranged Fairy Tale, by Medtner, while Szeryng’s version of Halffter’s Habanera receives its world première recording with this release. Other examples of virtuoso-turned-composer are Wieniawski, Francescatti (with a Polka) and Kreisler, whose La Gitana fits into the tradition of virtuoso pieces inspired by gypsy music – a tradition of which Ravel’s Tzigane is of course the jewel.

Here Gluzman performs with Angela Yoffe, his regular duo partner as well as his wife. This well-matched pair has been admired by the reviewers for their intense, passionate and powerful performances as well as for their supreme command of their respective instruments.

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