When Eugène Ysaÿe composed his cycle of 6 sonatas op. 27 for solo violin in June 1923, gut strings were still very common and highly appreciated - statements by contemporary violinists such as Mischa Elman, Toscha Seidel and Jacques Thibaud confirm this. However, neither the dedicatees of Eugène Ysaÿe’s solo sonatas nor other contemporaries made recordings of these works. Martin Reimann has now performed them on gut strings, and the special charm of his recording is that it gives these wonderful works a sonority that is likely to correspond to the aesthetic ideas of their time of creation.
Just like most German composers of his time, Telemann was very well acquainted with the stylistic developments in the other European countries, Italy and France in particular, and in his own compositions he assimilated the various national styles: the Lully Ouverture, the stylized French dances and the Italian trio sonata and concerto. Telemann’s contribution to these forms and genres was...
With this CD, violinist Mayumi Hirasaki, who has been Concerto Köln’s concertmaster since 2011, explores the chameleon-like possibilities of her instrument: when playing with scordatura, instead of the usual fifths interval between the violin strings, an alternative is used in which at least one string is tuned to a different pitch. This results in completely new sonic and harmonic...
HANA BLAŽÍKOVÁ soprano
BARBORA K ABÁTKOVÁ soprano
ALEX POTTER alto
BENEDICT HYMAS tenor
JAN VAN ELSACKER tenor
TOMÁŠ KRÁL baritone
JAROMÍR NOSEK bass
VERONIKA SKUPLIK violin
BRUCE DICKEY cornetto
CHARLES TOET trombone
SIMEN VAN MECHELEN trombone
CLAIRE MCINTYRE trombone
JOOST SWINKELS trombone
KRIS VERHELST organ
Artist(s):Ensemble Européen William Byrd - Graham O'Reilly,musical director - Yannick Varlet, organ Composer:Carissimi, Marazzoli,Quagliati, Rossi, Frescobaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sei Solo for unaccompanied violin figure amongst the baroque works on which the performance traditions of the 19th and 20th centuries weigh most heavily. Rediscovered halfway through the 19th century after having been forgotten for more than a century, these works quickly entered the repertoire of works performed by violinists during the Romantic period: from that moment...
