JS Bach & Ysaÿe Vol. 1

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it is particularly exciting and refreshing to hear Weithaas in true isolation with her beautiful and varied tone...and absolutely meticulous technique. Most of all, you can hear her complex thinking... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2015 More…

Release Date: 24th Nov 2014
Catalogue No: AVI8553320
Label: Avi Music
Length: 75 minutes

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Bach, J S: Sonata for solo violin No. 1 in G minor, BWV1001

Work length15:46

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Antje Weithaas
Recorded: 2014

I. Adagio

Track length4:01

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II. Fuga

Track length5:36

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III. Siciliana

Track length2:48

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IV. Presto

Track length3:21

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Ysaÿe: Sonate No.1 in G Minor

Work length5:01

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Antje Weithaas
Recorded: 2014

I. Grave - Lento assai

Track length5:01

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Ysaÿe: 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op.27

Work length5:19

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Antje Weithaas
Recorded: 2014

II. Fugato – Molto moderato

Track length5:19

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Ysaÿe: Sonate No.1 in G Minor

Work length4:10

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Antje Weithaas
Recorded: 2014

III. Allegretto – Poco scherzoso aimabile

Track length4:10

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Ysaÿe: 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op.27

Work length3:15

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Antje Weithaas
Recorded: 2014

IV. Finale con brio – Allegro fermo

Track length3:15

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Ysaÿe: Solo Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 27 "Jacques Thibaud"

Work length2:48

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Antje Weithaas
Recorded: 2014

I. Obsession - Prelude - Poco vivace

Track length2:48

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Ysaÿe: 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op.27

Work length10:04

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Antje Weithaas
Recorded: 2014

II. Malinconia (Poco lento)

Track length3:03

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III. Sarabande "Danse des ombres". Lento

Track length4:04

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IV. Les Furies – Allegro furioso

Track length2:57

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Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004

Work length29:26

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Antje Weithaas
Recorded: 2014

I. Allemanda

Track length4:33

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II. Corrente

Track length2:36

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III. Sarabanda

Track length4:06

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IV. Giga

Track length3:56

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V. Ciaconna

Track length14:15

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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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March 2015

it is particularly exciting and refreshing to hear Weithaas in true isolation with her beautiful and varied tone...and absolutely meticulous technique. Most of all, you can hear her complex thinking clearly evidenced in the light but ever-present dance lilt in all Bach's movements.

JS Bach & Ysaÿe Vol. 1

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