Bartok - Works for Violin and Piano Vol.2: Sonatas and Folk Dances
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10752
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 2nd January 2013
Contents
Works
Hungarian Folk Tunes (arr. Szigeti)Hungarian Folksongs, BB109 Sz42 (arr. Tivadar Orszagh for violin and piano)
Romanian Folk Dances (6) for piano, Sz56 BB68 (arr. Zoltan Szekely for violin and piano)
Sonata for solo violin, Sz117 BB124
Sonatina, BB69 Sz55 (arr. Gertler for violin and piano)
Violin Sonata in E minor, BB28
Artists
James Ehnes (violin)Andrew Armstrong (piano)
Works
Hungarian Folk Tunes (arr. Szigeti)Hungarian Folksongs, BB109 Sz42 (arr. Tivadar Orszagh for violin and piano)
Romanian Folk Dances (6) for piano, Sz56 BB68 (arr. Zoltan Szekely for violin and piano)
Sonata for solo violin, Sz117 BB124
Sonatina, BB69 Sz55 (arr. Gertler for violin and piano)
Violin Sonata in E minor, BB28
Artists
James Ehnes (violin)Andrew Armstrong (piano)
About
The folk-inspired Sonata for Solo Violin was the last work that Bartók wrote for the instrument, not to mention the most challenging. In a departure from his usual practice, this work was written not for a fellow Hungarian, but rather for an artist born in New York where Bartók was now living: Yehudi Menuhin. Suitably impressed by a recital performance by Menuhin of his first Violin Sonata as well as Bach’s Sonata in C, he had no hesitation in accepting the violinist’s commission for a sonata that, like Bach’s, would be unaccompanied.
Almost half a century earlier, Bartók had written his Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor. It was included in a concert given by graduating students of the Liszt Academy in June 1903, when a critic, most likely not realising just how right he would prove, hailed Bartók as ‘a phenomenal young genius, whose name today is known only to a few, but who is destined to play a great and brilliant role in the history of Hungarian music’.
Additionally on this disc we have three groups of Bartók’s Romanian and Hungarian folk dances, folksongs and folk tunes, arranged for violin variously by Zoltán Székely, Tivadar Országh and Joseph Szigeti, often with direct involvement by the composer himself who helped fine-tune the new arrangements.
James Ehnes also highlights the Romanian influences in Bartók’s Sonatina for piano, transcribed for violin by André Gertler, a student of Bartók’s.
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