Bach & Ysaÿe Vol. 1

Antje Weithaas

Label: CAvi
Catalogusnummer: AVI 8553320
EAN / barcode: 4260085533206
Verschijningsdatum: 20 november 2014
Type: Album

Antje Weithaas launches her trilogy of solo violin CDs with the first work in each cycle. It was Antje Weithaas’s own idea to jointly record Johann Sebastian Bach’s six sonatas and partitas for solo violin in conjunction with Eugène Ysaÿe’s six solo violin sonatas. “The works by Bach are rather well-known”, she remarks. “But Ysaÿe is invariably shoved into the virtuoso corner, but as a composer he is to be taken quite seriously!”. Eugène Ysaÿe‘s son remembers that his father started composing the solo violin sonatas when he heard Joseph Szigeti, a violinist younger than himself, play Bach in Brussels in 1923. Antje Weithaas sees many parallels with Bach’s Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin, BWV 1001: “The works have similar structures.” “Both composers wrote technically challenging pieces featuring double stops and ornamental figurations. Although there is no proof for such connections, I’m quite certain that Ysaÿe had them in mind.” The fugues, in each case, represent quite a challenge. Each composer demands double and multiple stops from an instrument normally designed to play one part at a time. “The notes are written directly on top of one another, as the composer must have imagined them in his head, but not in the way they are to be executed. Since the performance tradition has not survived, we can only make guesses.”

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Tracklist

01 Sonata no. 1 in G minor for Violin Solo, BWV 1001: I. Adagio 04:01
02 Sonata no. 1 in G minor for Violin Solo, BWV 1001: II. Fuga 05:37
03 Sonata no. 1 in G minor for Violin Solo, BWV 1001: III. Siciliana 02:48
04 Sonata no. 1 in G minor for Violin Solo, BWV 1001: IV. Presto 03:22
05 Sonata no. 1 in G minor for Violin Solo, op. 27: I. Grave – Lento assai 05:01
06 Sonata no. 1 in G minor for Violin Solo, op. 27: II. Fugato – Molto moderato 05:19
07 Sonata no. 1 in G minor for Violin Solo, op. 27: III. Allegretto – poco scherzoso aimabile 04:10
08 Sonata no. 1 in G minor for Violin Solo, op. 27: IV. Finale con brio – Allegro fermo 03:15
09 Sonata no. 2 in A minor for Violin Solo, op. 27: I. Prélude ‘Obsession’. poco vivace 02:49
10 Sonata no. 2 in A minor for Violin Solo, op. 27: II. Malinconia. Poco lento 03:03
11 Sonata no. 2 in A minor for Violin Solo, op. 27: III. Sarabande ‘Danse des ombres’. Lento 04:04
12 Sonata no. 2 in A minor for Violin Solo, op. 27: IV. Les Furies – Allegro furiose 02:58
13 Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: I. Allemanda 04:33
14 Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: II. Corrente 02:36
15 Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: III. Sarabanda 04:06
16 Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: IV. Giga 03:56
17 Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: V. Ciacconna 14:15

Bron: MusicBrainz

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