Stravinsky: Music for Violin Volume 2

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The performances are perfectly poised, the recording faultless. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars/5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Jun 2018
Catalogue No: BIS2275
Label: BIS
Length: 76 minutes

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Stravinsky: Pastorale

Work length3:02

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Ilya Gringolts (violin), Casey Hill (oboe), Scott MacLeod (cor anglais), Juan Ferrer (clarinet), Steve Harriswangler (bassoon)

Stravinsky: Ballad

Work length3:15

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Ilya Gringolts (violin), Peter Laul (piano)

Stravinsky: Suite italienne

Work length16:48

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Ilya Gringolts (violin), Peter Laul (piano)
Recorded: February 2016
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk

I. Introduzione. Allegro moderato

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II. Serenata. Larghetto

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III. Tarantella. Vivace

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IV. Gavotte con due variazioni

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V. Scherzino. Presto alla breve

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VI. Minuetto e finale. Moderato - Molto vivace

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Stravinsky: Divertimento (transcription for violin & piano by Stravinsky & Samuel Dushkin from Le Baiser de la Fée)

Work length19:55

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Ilya Gringolts (violin), Peter Laul (piano)
Recorded: February 2016
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk

I. Sinfonia. Andante

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II. Danses suisses. Tempo giusto

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III. Scherzo. Allegretto grazioso

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IVa. Pas de deux. Adagio

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IVb. Variation. Allegretto grazioso

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IVc. Coda. Presto

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Excerpt, Stravinsky: Apollon musagète

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Ilya Gringolts (violin)
Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
Dima Slobodeniouk

No. 2, Variation d'Apollon

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Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D

Work length21:32

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Ilya Gringolts (violin)
Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
Dima Slobodeniouk
Recorded: April 2017
Recording Venue: Palacio de la Ópera, A Coruña

I. Toccata

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II. Aria I

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III. Aria II

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IV. Capriccio

Track length6:28

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Stravinsky: Elegy, for solo violin

Work length5:20

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Ilya Gringolts (violin)

Stravinsky: Tango

Work length3:15

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Ilya Gringolts (violin), Peter Laul (piano)

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The relationship between Igor Stravinsky and the violin didn't get off to a promising start: early on in his career the composer stated that he was not fond of stringed instruments, finding them ‘rich in cheap expressivity’. He was also suspicious of virtuoso interpreters – among which violinists were particularly numerous – and their tendency to ‘seek immediate triumphs and to lend themselves to the wishes of the public’. Nevertheless there are in Stravinsky's oeuvre a number of works featuring a solo violin, all of which have now been recorded by his compatriot Ilya Gringolts.

The focus of the preceding volume was on the works for violin and piano, most of them Stravinsky's arrangements of his own music for the stage, and Gringolts and pianist Peter Laul were praised for their performances, for instance in Fanfare: ‘The Russian duo has discovered – and created – new freshness in the sound of Stravinsky's music for the instrument. Urgently recommended.’ On the present disc, Gringolts combines duos – again in the company of Laul – with other genres, including Stravinsky's most famous work for the violin: his Violin Concerto from 1931. In the concerto, as in the extract for solo violin and strings from the ballet Apollon musagète, Gringolts is supported by Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk.

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August 2018

The performances are perfectly poised, the recording faultless.

September 2018

In the opening Toccata of the Violin Concerto, Gringolts displays wit and even a sense of rhythmic freedom despite the clockwork discipline of Stravinsky’s writing. In the first Aria he has splendid quirky repartee with the excellent orchestral players and in the second produced gentle, fluid melismas.

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