Release Date: 28 January 2021
Label: NIFCCD
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5906395034659
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
In 1901 the nineteen-year-old Karol Szymanowski travelled to Warsaw for four years to complete his musical studies.
His work with accomplished teachers during this time demanded tonal discipline which cramped rather than developed the young composer's inventiveness.
Perhaps the most beautiful fruit of those studies was the Sonata in D minor for violin and piano, Op. 9, written towards the end of that four-year period, and dedicated to the composer's close friend Bronislaw Gromadzki.
Mythes, Op. 30 was inspired by the composer's journey to Italy and Africa in the spring of 1914. The titles of the three parts of the cycle—La Source d'Arethuse, Narcisse, Dryades et Pan—are suggestive of a programme within the context of the violin literature of those times.
Mythes was an exceptional phenomenon. The singular mood, original expression and vivid images painted in sound delighted listeners with their remarkable wealth of tone colours, ingenious harmonies and seductive melodies.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 13 for violin
and piano, written in 1885, is—like Szymanowski's Sonata—a youthful work and was of analogous significance for the artist's career, securing him the status of the most outstanding composer of his generation.
The first performance of the Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 13 was given on 9 April 1885 in Warsaw, by the violinist Wladyslaw Gorski and the composer. One can hear Romantic loosening of the Classical strictures of form and a departure from the widespread practice of writing 'native' themes. Distant echoes of traditional folk music can be heard and yet the category that dominates the whole composition is a typically Romantic lyrical expression.
Baeva's career as an international soloist of the highest renown has grown at an extraordinary pace over recent seasons. She now performs for Valery Gergiev, Paavo Jarvi, and Vladimir Jurowski.
In chamber music, she has the pleasure of collaborating with such esteemed artists as Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, and Daishin Kashimoto.
Her regular sonata partner is the celebrated Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko (2013 Van Cliburn Winner), with whom she has established a musical partnership of more than a decade.
Tracklisting
Cyprien Katsaris
Vadym Kholodenko
Ewa Poblocka
Maria Joao Pires
Halina Czerny-Stefanska
Ewa Poblocka
Mateusz Kowalski; Lorenzo Coppola; {oh!} Orkiestra; Martyna Pastuszka
Eric Guo, Oh! Orchestra, Vaclav Luks
Karolos
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Engegard Quartet, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Flute Alors
Louise Bessette
Jonas Batstrand, Jorn Fossheim
