Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917235128
Catalog number: CC 72351
Releasedate: 04-01-10
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917235128
Releasedate: 04-01-10
Violinist Liza Ferschtman shows us her vulnerability, her utmost musicality and her strength in this exquisite performance of the soloworks for violin of J.S. Bach and Eugène Ysaÿe. This is as far we know the first recording of these two composers side by side on a cd. And they go só well together. Liza transcends the traumatic time modern violinists have with playing Bach solo on a modern violin: she really gets to the soul of Bach. The solo violin works of Eugène Ysaÿe are, like Bachs solo works, among the standard repertoire to practice and practice a lot! To put the men on one cd is a stroke of genius!
- Violinist Liza Ferschtman is a young, rising star
- She plays in all the main concerthalls in The Netherlands more than regularly
- Liza has her own festival, the annual Delft Chamber Music Festival
- She also is becoming more and more known abraod, for instance in japan, where she plays in January 2010
- Her last album was a duo-cd with Beethoven and Schubert with pianist Inon Barnatan
- Now Liza takes the big leap and performs solo pieces by J.S. Bach and Eugène Ysaÿe!
- Her performance is daring, touching, vulnarable and at the same time very strong
- He star will be rising more and more with this beatiful new album
There are two ages between the lives and work of Johann Sebastian Bach and Eugène Ysaÿe. Two ages of difference and of similarities.
Bach emerged as a phenomenal composer, a genius, in the first half of the 18th Century. He left an enormous repertoire. Ysaÿe was to be a famous violinist in the beginning of the 20th Century. He also composed, but produced not as much as his illustrious predecessor.
Ysaÿe, violinist to the backbone, took the Sonatas and Partitas of Bach as an inspiration for his Sonatas for Violinsolo (1924). Just like Bach he put the Sonata nr. 1 in the key of g minor. Also the dividing of the Sonata in four movements – alternating between slow and fast – he derived from Bach. This composer was, as becomes perfectly clear, his big example.
Bach emerged as a phenomenal composer, a genius, in the first half of the 18th Century. He left an enormous repertoire. Ysaÿe was to be a famous violinist in the beginning of the 20th Century. He also composed, but produced not as much as his illustrious predecessor.
Ysaÿe, violinist to the backbone, took the Sonatas and Partitas of Bach as an inspiration for his Sonatas for Violinsolo (1924). Just like Bach he put the Sonata nr. 1 in the key of g minor. Also the dividing of the Sonata in four movements – alternating between slow and fast – he derived from Bach. This composer was, as becomes perfectly clear, his big example.
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1Sonate no.1 in g minor BWV 1001Adagio04:11
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2Sonate no.1 in g minor BWV 1001Fuga. Allegro05:23
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3Sonate no.1 in g minor BWV 1001Siciliana02:30
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4Sonate no.1 in g minor BWV 1001Presto03:22
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5Sonate no. 1 op. 27 no. 1Grave, Lento assai06:39
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6Sonate no. 1 op. 27 no. 1Fugato, Molto moderato05:02
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7Sonate no. 1 op. 27 no. 1Allegretto poco Scherzoso, Amabile04:38
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8Sonate no. 1 op. 27 no. 1Finale con brio, Allegro fermo03:07
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9Partita no. 3 in E major BWV 1006Preludio03:23
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10Partita no. 3 in E major BWV 1006Loure03:38
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11Partita no. 3 in E major BWV 1006Gavotte en Rondeau02:46
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12Partita no. 3 in E major BWV 1006Menuet I en II03:47
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13Partita no. 3 in E major BWV 1006Boureée01:15
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14Partita no. 3 in E major BWV 1006Gigue01:45
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15Sonate no. 2 op. 27 no. 2Obsession, Prélude, poco vivace02:38
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16Sonate no. 2 op. 27 no. 2Malinconia, Poco lento02:53
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17Sonate no. 2 op. 27 no. 2Danse des Ombres, sarabande (lento)04:52
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18Sonate no. 2 op. 27 no. 2Les Furies, Allegro furioso03:21