Wieniawski: Violin Showpieces

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Cat No: 8550744

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: WIENIAWSKI

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Henryk Wieniawski (1835 - 1880)Souvenir de Moscou, Op. 6 Capriccio-Valse, Op. 7 Variations on an original th?¿me (Th?¿me original varie), Op.15 Polonaise brillante No.1, Op. 4 Russian Carnival (Le carnaval russe), Op. 11 Gigue, Op. 23 Saltarello (arr. Lenehan) Mazurka, Op. 19, No.2, Village Fiddler (Le menetrier) Mazurka, Op. 19, No.1, Obertass Mazurka, Op. 12, No.2, Polish Song (Chanson polonaise) Mazurka, Kujawiak Legende, Op. 17 Scherzo-tarantelle, Op. 16The Polish violinist Henryk Wieniawski was born in Lublin in1835 and had his early training in his native country, before his admission at the age ofeight to the Paris Conservatoire, where he entered the class of Massart, with whom hecontinued to study after completing his course. In 1848 he travelled to St. Petersburg,where his performances made an excellent impression on Vieuxtemps, the court violinist.The following year he returned to the Paris Conservatoire to acquire the necessary skillsfor composition. By the age of fifteen he was able to embark on a full career as avirtuoso, accompanied by his younger brother Jozef, two years his junior, who, like hismother and his maternal uncle, had become a very considerable pianist.Between 1851 and 1853 the Wieniawskis were in Russia, givingconcert after concert. Henryk Wieniawski had already turned his attention to composition,with a Grand caprice fantastique in 1847 andan Allegro de sonate the following year incollaboration with his brother. By 1853 he had written some fourteen compositions forviolin and piano and violin and orchestra. Of these the first Violin Concerto won particular favour and secured hiswelcome in Germany, after he had played the concerto with the Gewandhaus Orchestra inLeipzig. In London he played with the Beethoven Quartet Society, together with the cellistPiatti, Joachim and Ernst, and in 1860 married the niece of the Irish pianist and composerGeorge Osborne. Performance in Paris with Anton Rubinstein led to an invitation to move toRussia, where he served as court violinist and for some years as professor of the violinat the Conservatory that Rubinstein had established in St. Petersburg. It was with theorchestra under the latter's direction that Wieniawski gave the first performance of hissecond Violin Concerto in St. Petersburg in 1862.In 1872 Wieniawski left Russia, resuming his career as avirtuoso, initially in partnership with Rubinstein. From 1875 to 1877 he taught at theBrussels Conservatory, where he succeeded Vieuxtemps,and during this period and thereafter continued his performing career, now withdeteriorating health. In Russia again he set out on a concert-tour with Tchaikovsky'sone-time inamorata Desiree Art??t, but thiswas interrupted by a break-down in health and a brief attempt at convalescence at thehouse of Tchaikovsky's patroness Nadezhda von Meck. He died in Moscow on the last day ofMarch, 1880, at the age of forty-four.Wieniawski's Souvenir deMoscou, originally written for violin and orchestra, was compose
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