Philippe Graffin & Claire Désert - Fiddler's Blues (2019)
Classical, Chamber Music | 01:08:15 | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 252 MB
Label: Avie
Classical, Chamber Music | 01:08:15 | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 252 MB
Label: Avie
The world-premiere recording of Eugène Ysaye's "Posthumous" solo violin opens the album Fiddler's Blues, the latest collaboration between violinist Philippe Graffin and pianist Claire Désert. What follows is an ingenious intersection of works by Paris-based violinists, composers and friends - Debussy, Enescu and Ravel.
Philippe Graffin's virtuosity combined with his skills as a sleuth have led to the world-premiere recording of a "Posthumous" solo violin sonata by Eugene Ysaye, an astonishing discovery that extends the Belgian composer's canon of his essential six sonatas for the medium. Philippe unearthed the nearly-completed manuscript in the library of the Brussels Conservatoire, and polished off the final movement in the most Ysaye-esque manner possible. Philippe's pechant for intuitive programming is brought to bear on Fiddler's Blues, combining two Ysaÿe works ? including another premiere, the Petite fantasie romantique ? with a pair of folksy, Bohemian-flavoured works by George Enescu, another virtuoso violinist / composer who emigrated from his native Romania and like Ysaye settled in Paris. Enescu was a classmate of Maurice Ravel whose Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faure is an affectionate nod to their teacher at the Paris Conservatoire, whilst his azure-tinged Violin Sonata influences the album's title. Ravel's slightly older contemporary Claude Debussy befriended Ysaÿe. Whereas Ysaye soared writing works for solo violin, Debussy wrote none. Suggesting how such a work may have sounded, Philippe contributes his own arrangement for solo violin, made together with David Matthews, of Debussy's enduring piano piece Claire de lune.
The media campaign for this album already includes a major feature in The Strad.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"The ten playful miniatures that make up Enescu's Op. 28, and Ravel's early Sonata, are impeccably shaped by Graffin and Désert, making this a disc for those who value exquisite refinement above all." - BBC Music Magazine (on In the Shade of Forests, AV2059)
"Graffin plays with such vibrant character and imagination, and the whole venture radiates such a life-affirming spontaneity and joy in music-making" - Gramophone (on the world-premiere recording of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto, AV0044)
Tracklist:
01. Philippe Graffin - Sonate posthume pour violin seul, Op. 27: I. Allegro molto moderato ma con brio
02. Philippe Graffin - Sonate posthume pour violin seul, Op. 27: II. Canzona - Lento e mesto
03. Philippe Graffin - Sonate posthume pour violin seul, Op. 27: III. Finale - Giocoso (completed P. Graffin)
04. Philippe Graffin - Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major: I. Allegretto
05. Philippe Graffin - Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major: II. Blues - Moderato
06. Philippe Graffin & Claire Désert - Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major: III. Perpetuum mobile - Allegro
07. Philippe Graffin - Claire de lune (transcribed for solo violin by David Matthews and Philippe Graffin)
08. Philippe Graffin - Petite Fantasie Romantique
09. Philippe Graffin - Violin Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 25, ‘Dans le caractère populaire roumain’: I. Moderato malinconico
10. Philippe Graffin - Violin Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 25, ‘Dans le caractère populaire roumain’: II. Andante sostenuto e misterioso
11. Philippe Graffin - Violin Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 25, ‘Dans le caractère populaire roumain’: III. Allegro con brio, ma troppo mosso
12. Philippe Graffin - Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré
13. Philippe Graffin - Hora Unirii
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