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
Description
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.
The first of these Op. 27 sonatas is dedicated to Szigeti. Ysaye's Sonata No. 2 was written for Jacques Thibaud. The Sonata No. 4 was written for Fritz Kreisler.
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 Magazine
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
Anna Reichert
Anthony de Mare; Conrad Tao
Pierre-Stephane Meuge
Jonas Seeberg
Yonghuan Zhong
Szymon Nehring
Slava Guerchovitch
Nora von Marschall
