Release Date: 28 July 2023
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0608917295627
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
The other three sonatas move away from Bach in their style and substance, focusing more exclusively on the violinist dedicatees. No. 3 was for the Romanian violinist and composer George Enescu. The Fifth Sonata, written for Ysaye's favorite student Matthieu Crickboom, is in a completely different mood than the others. Ysaye's final entry in the set, written for the Spanish violinist Manuel Quiroga, is a sequence of dances and arias linked by improvisatory cadenzas.
"Her tone is admirably full and she paces the music knowingly, the opening of the First Sonata especially [...]. For the Second Sonata Steinthórsdóttir integrates the Bachian and Dies irae motifs well and her muscular approach has plenty of impact." – Gramophone "Ysaye's challenging solo sonatas a performed by Icelandic fiddler Steinthorsdottir with robust tone and admirable sense of control" – BBC Music MagazineDescription
Challenge Classics is proud to present the debut recording of a young rising star, violinist Solveig Steinthorsdottir, with a live recording of Ysaye's six solo sonatas.
Tracklisting
Narratio Quartet
Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens
Matteo Cicchitti, Musica Elegentia
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
La Sfera Armoniosa, Oscar Verhaar, Mike Fentross
Simona Marchesi, Bartolomeo Dandolo Marchesi
Ben Kim, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
Celeste-Marie Roy
Yarno Missiaen
Mishka Rushdie Momen
Sergey Tanin
David Jalbert
David Jacques
Donald Berman
Michael Kaykov
