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“Pre-dating his ECM set by 20 years, Gidon Kremer's first recording of the solo Sonatas and Partitas exudes fireworks but often presses hard when the music is crying out to be caressed.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2013 *** | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Vadim Gluzman: par.ti.ta
Vadim Gluzman here presents his newest project for BIS: a disc combining two partitas by J.S. Bach with two works by Eugène Ysaÿe and Lera Auerbach. The Partita No.2 was described as ‘one of the most wonderful, most incomprehensible pieces of music’ by Brahms, and is followed on the disc by Auerbach’s par.ti.ta, composed specifically for Vadim Gluzman. In Ysaÿe‘s Sonata in A minor the parallels with the Partita No.3 are very strong. It was composed in 1924 as the second of a set of six, each sonata dedicated to a fellow violin virtuoso, and although the affinity is obvious, he incorporates elements wholly alien to Bach. Vadim Gluzman’s previous discs on BIS have ranged from solo works and chamber music by Lera Auerbach, Arvo Pärt and Alfred Schnittke, to the great violin concertos by Bruch and Tchaikovsky. “It all makes for fascinating listening. Gluzman has an agile technique and tonal range that fit him well for the demands of the D minor Partita’s great chaconne and for the other difficulties in this music, but, more importantly, he projects both a sense of style and an interpretative personality that give his playing a magnetic presence.” The Telegraph, 17th August 2012 **** “it's good to hear even a little sense of struggle as he conquers Ysaye's demanding writing. The ten short movements of Auerbach's par.ti.ta refract Bach through a contemporary prism and Gluzman finds even more colour and concentration, captured by the in-depth recording.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2012 *** “Gluzman plays the outer movements [of the Ysaye] with the virtuoso panache that must have been in the composer's mind...Gluzman shows himself to be a fine Bach-player, too. Occasionally I longed for the subtle illumination of phrasing, the sort of light and shade that's much easier to achieve with a Baroque bow...But each movement has a sense of life and poise; the Chaconne is especially impressive” Gramophone Magazine, October 2012 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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The Japanese violinist Tomoko Mayeda began playing the violin at the age of three and the piano at the age of four. She has given many concerts in Europe and Japan and has performed with Paul Badura-Skoda. She plays on a replica of a Stradivarius, made by Andreas Hellinge. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bach, J S: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin
After The Four Seasons, the Bach violin concertos, and the sonatas of Matteis, Amandine Beyer presents her vision of the Sonatas and Partitas, one of the pillars of the repertoire, coupled with the solo sonata of Pisendel, the best-known German violinist of his generation, who met Bach at Weimar. “These are fresh, spirited, finely judged performances. The tempi of the fast movements never seem too quick, though they often prove faster than those of other period players, and the slow movements are superbly paced...Beyer never plays on the listener's emotions but instead maintains a sliver of detachment that, in the context of her stylish performances, seems appropriate for music that is almost 300 years old...An enormously enjoyable set.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2012 “Beyer's playing is outstanding for her consistently sensitive delivery - finely chiselled in details but always organic with a keen ear for the music's broader harmonic direction. Although it invites and deserves close attention it does not overtly seek it...Her playing is at its finest...where it is at its most self-effacing: in the ear- and finger-defying polyphony Bach frequently demands from his player.” International Record Review, February 2012 | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Sergey Khachatryan (violin) On this 2-CD set the outstanding young Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan brings his youthful insights to bear in a vibrant new recording of what is undoubtedly the most important collection of pieces for solo violin in musical history, J S Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas. J.S Bach wrote the Six Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin in 1720, midway through his tenure as Capellmeister at the court of Prince Leopold in Cöthen. Whilst with these works Bach paid homage to a well-established Austrian-German tradition of polyphonic solo violin music, the Sonatas and Partitas go far beyond the compositions of his predecessors in their harmonic language The six works are cast in the two principal forms of the Italian trio sonata as codified by Arcangelo Corelli. Sergey Khachatryan was born in 1985 in Yerevan, Armenia. In December 2000, when only 15, he won the Eighth International Jean Sibelius competition, and in 2005 he claimed First Prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. He has performed as soloist with most of the great orchestras of the world, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the LSO, the New York Philharmonic, and the Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, under the direction of conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Gustavo Dudamel and Gianandrea Noseda. Sergey and his sister Lusine Khachatryan are regular performers at the Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Théâtre des Champs Élysées in Paris amongst others. His previous recordings for Naïve include critically acclaimed performances of the Sibelius Violin Concerto (V4959), both of Shostakovich’s Concertos (V5025), and the Violin Sonatas of Franck and Shostakovich, with his sister Lusine on the piano (V5122). “the young Armenian takes the palm for vigour and intensity. The Ciaconna that closes the second partita builds to a searing climax and the phrasing everywhere is immaculate.” The Telegraph, 19th November 2010 **** “Silvery, bright and pure, he gives a youthful air to a deeply expressive interpretation that feels knowing beyond his years. Everything about his performance is to be savoured. Phrasing and dynamics play Bach's multi-layering effects to the full...All in all, a quite wonderful listen.” bbc.co.uk, 2nd November 2010 “This young violinist avoids the lean, fleet-fingered approach to Baroque music now in vogue, favoring an unabashedly Romantic and passionate take on Bach...his interpretations are vividly rendered, detailed and potently expressive.” New York Times, 26th November 2010  CD Review
Critics' Disc of the Year - December 2010 |
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“Classic accounts by Milstein and Grumiaux have been usurped by this extraordinarily gifted newcomer” BBC Music Magazine, Proms issue 2005 “This is a masterly achievement from one of the most impressive of the younger generation of violinists.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005  BBC Music Magazine
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Barbara Luneburg (violin) “Juxtaposing late-Baroque contrapuntalist and 20th-century spectralist may seem audacious, but a focus on timbre proves it logical.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ***** |
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| |  | Bach and Beyond, Part I
Bach & Beyond Part 1 and its sequels will appeal to Bach fans as well as those interested in contemporary music. Listeners will explore how composers influence each other across the centuries as Koh pairs Bach’s sonatas and partitas with works by living composers “An imaginative programme, beautifully played, but just lacking that last ounce of flexibility in the Bach. Koh is more at home in the Saariaho and Mazzoli.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2013 **** “Koh has programmed her beautifully played disc so its direct references and quotes stand so starkly next to its template that it's impossible to miss them.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2013 |
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| |  | JS Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, Volume 1
The Herald Tribune describes Lotter as ‘a most highly cultivated representative of Early Music’ and his five CDs to date have been enthusiastically greeted by international press. “the wide-open space of the Himmselfahrtskirche in Munich brings his performance a ghost-like quality” Gramophone Magazine, May 2013 |
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