Solitaire: Music for Violin & Piano
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Label: Odradek Records
Cat No: ODRCD435
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 15th September 2023
Contents
Works
Albumblatt in A minorScherzo in C minor (F.A.E. Sonata), WoO2
Aria for violin and piano, op.94
Piano Trio no.41 in E flat minor, HobXV:31
Die drei Zigeuner, S383
Spiegel im Spiegel
Romanze in E minor, op.3
Peches de vieillesse, vol.9: Album pour piano, violon, violoncelle, harmonium et cor
Waldszenen, op.82
Artists
Johannes Fleischmann (violin)Christoph Ulrich Meier (piano)
Works
Albumblatt in A minorScherzo in C minor (F.A.E. Sonata), WoO2
Aria for violin and piano, op.94
Piano Trio no.41 in E flat minor, HobXV:31
Die drei Zigeuner, S383
Spiegel im Spiegel
Romanze in E minor, op.3
Peches de vieillesse, vol.9: Album pour piano, violon, violoncelle, harmonium et cor
Waldszenen, op.82
Artists
Johannes Fleischmann (violin)Christoph Ulrich Meier (piano)
About
'Solitaire' may denote a single set gemstone as well as a single piece in general. This album's programme consists of little-known individual works for violin and piano, all of them musical gems by famous composers, many of whom influenced each other. 'Solitaire' also means 'lonely, alone', and thus coincides with violinist Joseph Joachim's motto 'free but lonely'. Famous violinists who inspired composers are also a common thread running through the programme.
We hear sumptuously beautiful and fascinating music from the overlapping worlds of Wagner and his father-in-law Liszt, Zemlinsky and his brother-in-law Schoenberg, and from Zemlinsky's champion Brahms and Brahms's friends and collaborators Robert Schumann and Joachim.
More recent composers represented include Estonian composer Arvo Părt and Greek composer-conductor Konstantia Gourzi, who has filled in the gaps of Haydn's fragmentary surviving opera Philemon und Baucis with her own compositions, one of which is Aria. This began life in 2003 as a soprano aria but was reworked by Gourzi in 2022 for violin and piano. Rooted in the Greek mythology of Haydn's opera, Aria may be heard as a brief narrative of a dream. Haydn, too, is heard on this album with his witty Jacob's Dream, and Rossini, Reinecke and Ysa˙e complete the programme.
Fleischmann is joined by Christoph Ulrich Meier, who is Musical Supervisor of the Bayreuth Festival and whose performances as conductor and pianist have taken him to the Musikverein Vienna, Berlin Philharmonie, Felsenreitschule Salzburg and the Suntory Hall Tokyo, among others. Fleischmann and Meier have been performing as a duo since 2019.
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