The Red Violin Caprices

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This is another incarnation of John Corigliano's Red Violin music. First the film and the Chaconne for violin and orchestra derived from it (1997); then the Concerto (2003); and now the composer... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 28th Apr 2008
Catalogue No: 8559364
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Length: 64 minutes

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September 2008

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Corigliano, J: The Red Violin Caprices

Work length9:34

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Philippe Quint (violin)
Recorded: 27 January 2008
Recording Venue: St John Chrysostom Church, Newmarket, Canada

Theme

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Variation 1

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Variation 2

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Variation 3

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Variation 4

Track length2:33

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Variation 5

Track length1:12

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Corigliano, J: Violin Sonata

Work length23:08

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Philippe Quint (violin), William Wolfram (piano)
Recorded: 10-11 June 2007
Recording Venue: Glenn Gould Studio, C.B.C. Toronto, Canada

I. Allegro

Track length2:48

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II. Andantino

Track length7:10

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III. Lento

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IV. Allegro

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Thomson, V: 3 Portraits (arr. S. Dushkin for violin and piano)

Work length6:12

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Philippe Quint (violin), William Wolfram (piano)
Recorded: 10-11 June 2007
Recording Venue: Glenn Gould Studio, C.B.C. Toronto, Canada

No. 1. Barcarolle, A Portrait of Georges Hugnet

Track length1:47

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No. 2. Tango Lullaby, A Portrait of Mlle. Alvarez de Toledo

Track length2:20

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No. 3. In a Bird Cage, A Portrait of Lise Deharme

Track length2:05

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Thomson, V: 5 Ladies

Work length8:27

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Philippe Quint (violin), William Wolfram (piano)
Recorded: 10-11 June 2007
Recording Venue: Glenn Gould Studio, C.B.C. Toronto, Canada

I. Cynthia Kemper, A Fanfare

Track length1:01

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II. Anne Miracle

Track length1:12

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III. Alice Toklas

Track length3:03

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IV. Yvonne de Casa Fuerte

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V. Mary Reynolds

Track length1:27

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Thomson, V: 8 Portraits for Violin Alone

Work length17:12

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Philippe Quint (violin)
Recorded: 10-11 June 2007
Recording Venue: Glenn Gould Studio, C.B.C. Toronto, Canada

No. 3. Georges Hugnet, Poet and Man of Letters

Track length1:27

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No. 1. Senorita Juanita de Medina Accompanied by her Mother

Track length2:12

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No. 2. Madame Marthe-Marthine

Track length2:09

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No. 4. Miss Gertrude Stein as a Young Girl

Track length1:46

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No. 5. Cliquet-Pleyel in F

Track length2:24

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No. 6. Mrs. C[hester] W[hitin] L[asell]

Track length1:44

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No. 7. Sauguet, from Life

Track length1:14

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No. 8. Ruth Smallens

Track length4:16

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John Corigliano has revisited his score for the 1997 film The Red Violin several times. In The Red Violin Caprices, content is allied to a technique making strenuous demands on the performer. The pensive Theme is identical in substance to that heard in the earlier Chaconne (Naxos 8.559306), and its five variations range in style from the Paganinian virtuosity of the first, to the restrained ‘folk’ tinge of the third. Corigliano’s Violin Sonata is among his earliest acknowledged works, its final ‘Allegro’ enhanced by some scintillating instrumental interplay. Coming from a very different musical background, and representing a very different musical aesthetic, Virgil Thomson’s music displays a skilful assimilation of Gallic clarity and an American-derived nostalgia, with hymn tunes and traditional songs often being evident.

“I just heard Philippe Quint’s new recording of my Red Violin Caprices and he was absolutely amazing.” John Corigliano

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2010

This is another incarnation of John Corigliano's Red Violin music. First the film and the Chaconne for violin and orchestra derived from it (1997); then the Concerto (2003); and now the composer has extracted a set of caprices for solo violin.
These were originally written as studies and the actors, filmed playing the instrument, had to mime to them. Because of the demands of the film, reflecting the life of a violin at various times and places, the writing has a wider stylistic range than most contemporary works for solo violin.
Corigliano's Sonata for Violin and Piano (1963) is an early piece with ingenious Stravinskian panache in the rapid writing and lyrical charm elsewhere of the kind which led to TheRed Violin 35 years later. Quint and Wolfram make it sound just as impressive as Bell and Denk (Sony).
Most of Virgil Thomson's Portraits were for piano so it's unusual to have three groups for violin, with and without piano. Thomson began with seven of the Eight Portraits for solo violin in 1928 and went on to produce about 150. He actually composed in front of the sitter like an artist sketching, and the results are delightfully spontaneous. There's a 'Tango Lullaby' for Mlle Alvarez de Toledo, who must have been quite a character; sketches of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, both so important in Thomson's life; and composer colleagues like Henri Sauguet.
Philippe Quint's panache is stunning and this CD offers some of the most attractive music for solo violin in the entire repertoire.

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