Joo Yeon Sir & Irina Andrievsky - Britten, De Falla, Gershwin, Milhaud & Schnittke: Suites & Fantasies (2017) [24/96]

Korean born British violinist Joo Yeon Sir is a name to watch. The Strad magazine reviewing a Wigmore Hall concert commented ‘Exuberant…feline and seductive, rattling off the fiendish cadenza with bravura and oodles of personality’.

That personality comes to the fore in this eclectic and emotionally wide ranging recital of suites and fantasies by a group of composers you won’t often find together on a concert programme. Britten’s youthfully precocious Suite op 6, Milhaud’s suave ‘Le Boeuf sur la toit’ and Frolov’s effervescent fantasy on themes from Gershwin’s ‘Porgy & Bess’ rub shoulders with Schnittke’s affectionate harking back to the baroque, and de Falla’s passionate Popular Spanish Songs.

From October to December 2017 Joo Yeon taking part in the national UK Karl Jenkins tour, and will perform at Symphony Hall Birmingham, Bridgewater Hall Manchester and at the Royal Festival Hall in London. She appears on the Deutsche Grammophon album of Sir Karl’s Cantata Memoria – For the Children.

Joo Yeon Sir plays on a Matteo Goffriller violin kindly provided by Georg von Opel. This recording was produced by Andrew Keener.

Following studies at the Purcell School and at the Royal College of Music where she twice won the Concerto Competition, Joo Yeon was also Constant & Kit Lambert Junior Fellow 2014-2015 (awarded by The Worshipful Company of Musicians), presenting a sold-out concert series of the complete Beethoven’s 10 Sonatas for Violin and Piano cycle with 10 different pianists at RCM.

Future highlights include debut appearances at the Royal Festival Hall and Wales Millennium Centre and a Young Artist Residency at St. John’s Smith Square.The Strad magazine reviewing a Wigmore Hall concert commented: "Exuberant…feline and seductive, rattling off the fiendish cadenza with bravura and oodles of personality". That personality comes to the fore in this eclectic and emotionally wide-ranging recital of suites and fantasies by a group of composers you won’t often find together on a concert programme. Britten’s youthfully precocious Suite Op 6, Milhaud’s suave ‘Le Boeuf sur la toit’ and Frolov’s effervescent fantasy on themes from Gershwin’s ‘Porgy & Bess’ rub shoulders with Schnittke’s affectionate hark back to the baroque and de Falla’s passionate 'Popular Spanish Songs'. She plays on a Matteo Goffriller violin kindly provided by Georg von Opel. This recording was produced by Andrew Keener.

TRACKLIST

Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

Suite in Old Style
1 I. Pastorale 03:13
2 II. Ballet 02:27
3 III. Menuett 03:17
4 IV. Fugue 02:35
5 V. Pantomime 03:33

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

Suite popular española
6 I. El paño moruno 02:25
7 V. Nana 02:22
8 VI. Canción 01:33
9 VII. Polo 01:25
10 III. Asturiana 02:29
11 IV. Jota 03:28

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 6
12 I. Introduction 00:28
13 II. March 02:32
14 III. Moto perpetuo 03:10
15 IV. Lullaby 04:41
16 V. Waltz 04:44

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

17 Cinéma-Fantasie after Le Boeuf sur le toit, Op. 58b 18:37

Igor Alexandrovich Frolov (1937-2013)

18 Concert Fantasy on Themes from Porgy and Bess, Op. 19 14:28

PERSONNEL
Joo Yeon Sir, violin
Irina Andrievsky, piano