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Monday, March 12, 2018

Pablo de Sarasate - Music for Violin & Piano Vol. 4 (Tianwa Yang; Markus Hadulla)


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Transcriptions and arrangements by Pablo de Sarasate
  1. Moritz Moszkowski - Guitarre, Op. 45, No. 2
  2. Frédéric Chopin - Waltz No. 4 in F major, Op. 34, No. 3, 'Valse brillante'
  3. Frédéric Chopin - Waltz No. 3 in A minor, Op. 34, No. 2, 'Valse brillante'
  4. Frédéric Chopin - Waltz No. 8 in A flat major, Op. 64, No. 3
  5. Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9, No. 2
  6. Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27, No. 2
  7. Souvenirs de Faust (on themes from Gounod's opera)
  8. Jean-Pierre Guignon - Violin Sonata No. 1: Allegro
  9. Jean-Joseph de Mondonville - Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 4: III. La chasse
  10. Jean-Marie Leclair - Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 9, No. 3: III. Sarabande: Largo
  11. Jean-Marie Leclair - Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 9, No. 3: IV. Tambourin: Presto
  12. George Frideric Handel - Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40: Act I: Ombra mai fu, 'Largo'
  13. Jean Baptiste Senaillé - Sonata No. 9: Allegro
  14. Johann Sebastian Bach - Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: II. Air: 'Air on a G String'
  15. Joachim Raff - La fée d'amour, Op. 67

Tianwa Yang, violin
Markus Hadulla, piano

Date: 2014
Label: Naxos
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.572709

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Review

This is the eighth disc of Sarasate that the violinist Tianwa Yang has recorded for Naxos. It has the great merit of including a high proportion of popular favourites, making it something of a fun record, given the brilliant performances of this duo.

The opening item, Moszkowski’s Guitarra, sets the pattern in bringing out Wang’s virtuoso playing in imitations of the guitar, with plentiful pizzicatos. There follows a splendid group of Chopin transcriptions, three favourite Waltzes and two of the best-loved of the Nocturnes. Though Sarasate stays close to Chopin’s originals, he adds various spectacular passages specially suited to the violin. Yang’s range of violin tone and dynamic is consistently seductive here and throughout the disc.

Next comes Sarasate’s potpourri Souvenirs de Faust, with Gounod’s principal tunes given a spectacular setting, and with the piano as well as the violin given brilliant passages. The Waltz is deliciously pointed, while the celebrated Soldiers’ March brings plentiful double-stopping. Of the transcriptions of pieces by Guignon, Mondonville and Leclair, the most attractive is Leclair’s ‘Tambourin’.

The next item reflects the period when Handel’s Largo was very popular, with no mention that it comes from the opera Serse. Similarly, the Air from Bach’s Suite No 3 in D was always known as the ‘Air on the G string’. Sarasate’s arrangements of both pieces beautifully ring the changes of pitch and dynamic, with passages involving melodies on high harmonics. The Handel begins and ends effectively with the piano alone, making the late entry of the violin even more seductive.

The last item is a fantasy piece, La fée d’amour. At nearly 18 minutes it is much the longest item but by no means the most interesting. Yet Sarasate, so the note tells us, regarded it as his favourite concert item, no doubt because it allowed him to exploit his virtuosity to the full. Altogether a delightful disc, beautifully recorded in well balanced sound.

-- Edward Greenfield, Gramophone

More reviews:
MusicWeb International  RECORDING OF THE MONTH
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2014/Feb14/Sarasate_transcriptions_8572709.htm
http://www.audaud.com/sarasate-transcriptions-works-of-mozkowski-bach-handel-leclair-gounod-chopin-others-tianwa-yang-violin-markus-hadulla-piano-naxos/

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Pablo de Sarasate (10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908) was a Spanish violinist and composer of the Romantic period. Sarasate, who had been publicly performing since childhood, made his Paris debut as a concert violinist in 1860, and played in London the following year. Over the course of his career, he toured many parts of the world, performing in Europe, North America, and South America. Sarasate's own compositions are mainly show-pieces designed to demonstrate his exemplary technique. Perhaps the best known of his works is Zigeunerweisen (1878). A number of works for violin were also dedicated to Sarasate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_de_Sarasate

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Tianwa Yang (born 8 April, 1987) is a Chinese classical violinist. Yang began learning to play the violin at age four and at ten, began studying with Professor Lin Yaoji at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She debuted in Europe in 2001 and her North American debut was in the 2007-2008 season. Yang recorded her first CD in 2000, at the age of 13, with a recording of Paganini's 24 caprices, on the Hugo Classical label. In 2004, she began recording for Naxos, beginning a series of the complete works of Pablo de Sarasate, which will eventually cover 8 CDs. Yang performs on a Guarneri del Gesu (1730).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianwa_Yang
http://www.tianwayang.com/en/

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