Release Date: 29 April 2016
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Super Jewel Case (SACD)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917272628
Genres: Classical
Description
The third recording by the exuberant Dutch viola player Esther Apituley on Challenge Classics is this Hybrid SACD entirely devoted to transcriptions from Bach's solo works for violin and cello. The focus of the disc, and the work with which it culminates, is a viola version of the famous Chaconne from the Partita No 2 for solo violin.
The recording venue was a 12th century chapel, called Sant Bartomeu de Torres, in northern Spain which "has a really special acoustic, and lovely views out across the Pyrenees".
Amsterdan-born, Esther Apituley studied with Misha Geller at the Sweelinck Conservatory of Amsterdam, and with Bruno Giuranna at the Hochschule for Musik, Berlin. In 1990 she started a career as a soloist and gave her first recital in the Concertgebouw. Over the years Apituley has worked with the Borodin Quartet, the Colorado Quartet, the Hollandia theatre group, and Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel and as a soloist with the National Ballet Orchestra, the North Holland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Metropole Orchestra, and Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, performing the viola concertos of Berlioz, Bartók, and Chiel Meijering, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, and Lachrymae by Britten.
In 2009 she was appointed artistic director of the ViolaViola Foundation which promotes the instrument and encourages new audiences through its Festival. With Bach & Bleach – a theatre production about a violinist and a cleaning lady – Apituley performs at festivals in the Netherlands and abroad.
Apituley's previous recordings for Challenge Classics were Violent Viola (CC72156) in 2005 and Voila Viola (CC72165) in 2007, both of which featured unusual programming that raised quite a few eyebrows but were widely praised.
Personnel: Esther Apituley (viola)
Tracklisting
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Aart Bergwerff
Roberto Prosseda
Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dejan Lazic, Jan Willem de Vriend
Ton Koopman
Duo Saraswati
Yoichi Sugiyama
Slava Guerchovitch
Francesco Ledda, Opera Discovery Orchestra, Stefanna Kybalova, Valer Borin, Marcello Lippi, Paolo B
Karolos
Daniel Di Prinzio, Ihor Kordiuk
Nora von Marschall
Isabel Schicketanz
The Counterpoints
