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Hungarian born American violinist (1892-1973)
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2023-08-07 03:30:00
Yasÿe Sonatas for Violin (CD review)
[…] Op. 16 until 1910 or so. These dates are relevant, I think, because they help us to understand that Yasÿe’s works are in more modern styles than his age might suggest. This certainly applies in the case of Op. 27, which comprises the six sonatas that are the works on this CD. Eugène YasÿeYasÿe’s inspiration for the sonatas seems to have been a performance of Bach’s Partitas and Sonatas for Solo Violin by Joseph Szigeti. Although probably not written in a week as legend would have it, all of the sonatas were sketched out by July of 1923; Hahn’s recording is thus a centenary tribute. (You really do want to read her liner notes for details on the genesis of this recording.) Each of the sonatas is dedicated to a contemporary violinist, such as Szigeti, George Enescu and Fritz Kreisler, several of whom were themselves composers as well. There […]
2022-09-05 14:11:39
Over-abundance, 2022
[…] sonatinas. We’d like to give you a couple of samples of the music of our composers taken from very different eras. First, Isabella Leonarda’s Magnificat, composed in 1696. It’s performed by the Italian ensemble Musica Laudantes (here). And here, from 1950, is John Cage’s String Quartet in Four Parts, recorded by the Adritti Quartet. Two Russian pianists were also born this week, Maria Yudina and Lev Oborin, and so was the famous Hungarian violinist, Joseph Szigeti. And the mercurial soprano Angela Gheorghiu will turn 57 this week. Here is the great (and heartbreaking) final scene of Tosca with Gheorghiu and her then husband Roberto Alagna. Antonio Pappano leads the orchestra of the Covent Garden Opera in this recording from year 2000.
2022-02-21 14:50:04
Handel, 2022
[…] in Leningrad (now St.-Petersburg) and, finally, yet another Russian-born pianist, Arcadi Volodos (no, this one is not Jewish) was born on February 24th of 1972, also in Leningrad; these days Volodos lives in Spain. None of these pianists were very interested in the music of Handel, the only example we could find of one of them playing his music is an old, scratchy but interesting recording made in 1937 by the famous Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti who was accompanied by Nikita Magaloff. It is Handel’s Violin Sonata in D Major, HWV371, composed later in Handel’s life in 1750 (here). We also celebrate another Soviet-born musician, a violinist. Gidon Kremer will turn 75 on the 27th, he was born on that day in 1947 in Riga, Latvia. Latvia, now independent, was then part of the Soviet Union; Kremer studied at the Moscow Conservatory with David Oistrakh, became a laureate of […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-07-05 16:50:38
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