Sarasate - Virtuoso Violin Works - Canary Classics: CC07 - CD

…with his pure tone, immaculately clear delivery and refusal to over-indulge, Shaham proves to be an almost ideal interpreter of this repertory. There's a palpable sense of excitement in the... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2009 More…

Release Date: 28th Sep 2009
Catalogue No: CC07
Label: Canary Classics
Length: 76 minutes

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Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25

Work length12:35

Gil Shaham (violin)
Castilla y Leon Symphony Orchestra
Alejandro Posada

I. Introduction: Allegro moderato

Track length2:54

II. Moderato

Track length2:58

III. Lento assai

Track length2:16

IV. Allegro moderato

Track length1:50

V. Moderato

Track length2:37

Sarasate: El canto del ruiseñor, Op. 29

Work length8:11

Adele Anthony (violin), Akira Eguchi (piano)

Sarasate: Danzas Española, Op. 26

Work length4:54

Gil Shaham (violin), Akira Eguchi (piano)

Spanish Dances, Op. 26: No. 2. Habanera

Track length4:54

Sarasate: Danzas Española, Op. 23

Work length3:20

Gil Shaham (violin), Akira Eguchi (piano)

Spanish Dances, Op. 23: No. 2. Zapateado

Track length3:20

Sarasate: Adios montanas mias, Op. 37 (orch. L. Blech)

Work length4:00

Gil Shaham (violin)
Castilla y Leon Symphony Orchestra
Alejandro Posada

Adios montanas mias, Op. 37 (orch. by L. Blech)

Track length4:00

Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20

Work length8:20

Gil Shaham (violin)
Castilla y Leon Symphony Orchestra
Alejandro Posada

Sarasate: Airs écossais, Op. 34

Work length8:44

Adele Anthony (violin), Akira Eguchi (piano)

Sarasate: Danzas Española, Op. 22

Work length4:54

Gil Shaham (violin), Akira Eguchi (piano)

Spanish Dances, Op. 22: No. 1. Romanza andaluza

Track length4:54

Sarasate: Caprice Basque, Op. 24

Work length6:36

Gil Shaham (violin), Akira Eguchi (piano)

Sarasate: Romance and Gavota de Mignon, Op. 16

Work length2:32

Gil Shaham (violin), Akira Eguchi (piano)

Romance et Gavotte de Mignon, Op. 16: Gavotte

Track length2:32

Sarasate: Introduction and Tarantella, Op. 43

Work length5:17

Adele Anthony (violin), Akira Eguchi (piano)

Sarasate: Navarra, Op. 33

Work length6:51

Gil Shaham (violin), Adele Anthony (violin)
Castilla y Leon Symphony Orchestra
Alejandro Posada

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Violinists Adele Anthony and Gil Shaham share many passions. Along with their personal connection (they are married) and careers as performing artists, they both feel a deep affinity for the music of Sarasate. This legendary violinist and composer’s inspired works are enormously entertaining and irresistibly appealing, eloquently summarised by Adele as ‘works being a culmination of melody, violinistic idiom and elegance, often evocative of his native Spain’. Gil rates him ‘as one of my great personal heroes. He was a meticulous composer; his style was always full of imagination, full of melody, always perfectly clean and concise. I love this guy.’

Adele and Gil used the occasion of Sarasate’s centenary in 2008 to pay tribute to the revered master’s work. This included a concert at the Lincoln Center in New York, broadcast live on PBS in North America and to end the year’s festivities ¡Sarasateada!, an all Sarasate Festival in Valladolid, in Sarasate’s native Spain.

¡Sarasateada! included both chamber and orchestral concerts from which this release is born and this disc captures the expected and unexpected. A red blooded live performance of Camen Fantasy, Zapateado the raucous cowboy dance and Zigeunerweisen, all works which have challenged violinists for decades and never fail to dazzle. The unexpected works are some wonderful yet lesser known - Song of the Nightingale, Airs Eccosaise showing the his compositional gift, ‘his diversity and imagination’ as Adele puts it, with the disc concluding with a delightful and stratospheric duo Navarra, a folk song derived from Navarre in Spain.

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December 2009

…with his pure tone, immaculately clear delivery and refusal to over-indulge, Shaham proves to be an almost ideal interpreter of this repertory. There's a palpable sense of excitement in the live recordings as he surmounts all the technical hurdles of the Carmen Fantasy and Zigeunerweisen with outrageous ease.

January 2010

Both violinists have a real feeling for the music - its sometimes outrageous showmanship, which Shaham is particularly good at portraying, combined with easy, graceful, aristocratic manners.

15th January 2010

Shaham's playing is impeccable – every attack is perfectly clean, the articulation crystal clear…

15th November 2009

The classy American-Israeli Gil Shaham plays...with fearless panache...Always unfailingly musical, Shahan makes his skilful virtuosity sound easy as child's play.

26th January 2010

His virtuosity is breathtaking, and he has the fiery temperament that gives Sarasate’s music an authentic Spanish zing.

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