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| Released | 01/03/2010 |
| Cat Number | 2564-68385-5 |
| Label | Warner Classics |
| Barcode | 0825646838554 |
Sound & Video
Rachel Kolly D'Alba - Passion Ysaye - Six Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin
Composer
Artists
| Soloist | Rachel Kolly d'Alba |
Works
Eugene Ysa˙e
- Sonata No.1 in G minor Dedicated to Joseph Szigeti
Composer Eugene Ysa˙e Soloist Rachel Kolly d'Alba - Sonata No.2 in A minor Dedicated to Jacques Thibaud
Composer Eugene Ysa˙e Soloist Rachel Kolly d'Alba - Sonata No.3 in D minor Dedicated to George Enescu
Composer Eugene Ysa˙e Soloist Rachel Kolly d'Alba - Sonata No.4 in E minor Dedicated to Fritz Kreisler
Composer Eugene Ysa˙e Soloist Rachel Kolly d'Alba - Sonata No.5 in G major Dedicated to Mathieu Crickboom
Composer Eugene Ysa˙e Soloist Rachel Kolly d'Alba - Sonata No.6 in E major Dedicated to Manuel Quiroga
Composer Eugene Ysa˙e Soloist Rachel Kolly d'Alba
Reviews & Editorial
It was Eugčne Ysa˙e (1858-1931), an outstanding virtuoso, and one of the greatest violinists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, who showed that composing for unaccompanied violin had not come to a halt. In successfully reviving the genre his Six Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin opened the way to the later sonatas by Bartók and Prokofiev, those by Hindemith and the preludes and fugues by Reger. Ysa˙e's sonatas also set a new standard by which to judge a violinist's technical proewss.
On this recording, Swiss born Rachel Kolly d’Alba, plays the ex-Smith Stradivarius violin. This violin, made in 1727, is in a superb state of preservation. It has a noble, balanced sound, with a particular warmth to the high notes and an attractive, earthy sonority on the lower strings offering a wealth of expressive possibilities.
