YSAŸE 6 Sonatas for solo violin Op 27
New signing for Harmonia Mundi: Chicago violinist Murray
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Record and Artist Details
Composer or Director: Eugène (Auguste) Ysaÿe
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Magazine Review Date: 05/2012
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 68
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: HMU907569
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(6) Sonatas for Solo Violin |
Eugène (Auguste) Ysaÿe, Composer
Eugène (Auguste) Ysaÿe, Composer Tai Murray, Violin |
Author: Caroline Gill
Above all, though, the ghost of Bach is never far from these pieces and it takes a weighty player to support his presence in the wings without leaving the music to lose its own identity. So much of the Solo Partitas is in here, and the yearning Murray creates by way of her seamless lines is heart-wrenching: she has quite rightly identified them as all-important in music that can kaleidoscope from post-Bach to pre-Ligeti sounds within a single phrase, managing to draw out just how exciting this music is in its own right from a repertoire where it is often pigeonholed as niche study music for the advanced student.
In recorded music these days it ought to go without saying that all these performances are perfectly tuned but I’m going to draw attention to it anyway: the perfection of Murray’s intonation, especially in the many virtuoso passages of fast-moving, random intervals of no predictable pattern, has tipped so far over into another league of accuracy that it adds an extra dimension of enjoyment to an already superlative disc.
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