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
Slava Guerchovitch
Nora von Marschall
Lea Suter
Aart Bergwerff
Ran Jia
Johannes Krahl
Elke Volker
Henry Fairs
