NEW ON NAXOS | FEBRUARY 2024
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Ukrainian Masters BORTKIEWICZ • KOSENKO • SKORYK Violin Sonatas Solomiya Ivakhiv, Violin Steven Beck, Piano
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The expressive vitality in this collection of violin sonatas transcends the cultural upheavals from which these three Ukrainian composers emerged. Bortkiewicz’s Violin Sonata in G minor is among the most impressive of his relatively few chamber works, finding his musical language at its most vivid and directly communicative. Kosenko’s Violin Sonata in A minor is notable for the satisfying balance of its two subtly differentiated movements. Skoryk’s Second Violin Sonata is a stylistically diverse chamber work, with pointed allusions to Beethoven, Prokofiev and Gershwin during its compact and always eventful course. Key Features: • Ukrainian born violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv is a highly celebrated soloist, chamber musician and educator. She has made solo appearances with numerous internationally acclaimed orchestras, and has performed at chamber music festivals worldwide. This is her Naxos debut, but her previous recordings have been featured on NPR’s Performance Today and have placed in the top charts on iTunes and Spotify. • A graduate of The Juilliard School, pianist Steven Beck ’s annual Christmas Eve performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Bargemusic has become a New York institution. As an orchestral musician he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He is a Steinway Artist, and is on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
8.579146 Release Date: 23 Feb 2024
Companion Titles – Ukrainian composers
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Click to listen to KOSENKO, V.: Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 18: I. Allegro
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Henry VIEUXTEMPS (1820–1881) Voix intimes Rarities for Violin and Piano Manon Lamaison, Soprano Vilmos Csikos, Violin • Olivier Lechardeur, Piano
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Famed for his profoundly Romantic violin concertos, Henry Vieuxtemps revolutionised violin playing in the 19th century. His loyal student Eugène Ysaÿe pointed out that his teacher’s work was ʻa treasure to be protected at all costs’ and ‘ought to be known in its entirety’. Vieuxtemps’ bicentenary in 2020 provided an ideal opportunity to unearth lost and often unpublished manuscripts passed down through the composer’s family. These rediscovered gems include the world premiere of the Fantasy for Voice, Violin and Orchestra , presented here in a piano reduction, an amazing work in which the voice, evoking the composer’s memories in a wordless vocalise, wraps itself around the notes of the violin. Key Features: •
8.579149 Release Date: 9 Feb 2024
Henry Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concertos have long been available in fine recordings on our Romantic Violin Concertos edition and elsewhere, but the Naxos label has for many years been enthusiastic in its exploration of this composer’s less frequently heard music. Such releases include Music for Viola and Piano (8.555262) heard as ‘excellent performances and… attractive works’ by MusicWeb International , and numerous Variations and other works (8.574363) regarded as ‘Naxos at its best’ in Gramophone . •
Companion Titles – Henry Vieuxtemps, Composer
Vilmos Csikos
Olivier Lechardeur
Vilmos Csikos is a laureate of numerous International violin competitions including First Grand Prize at the Henry Vieuxtemps International Violin Competition in 2020 (Verviers, Belgium), and has appeared as a concert soloist with leading orchestras throughout Europe. Pianist Olivier Lechardeur ’s passion for chamber music has seen him collaborating in performances all over the world, while young soprano Manon Lamaison has already taken numerous leading operatic roles and is a rising star both in major productions both French and international.
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Manon Lamaison
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Click to listen to Duo brillant en forme de fantaisie sur des airs hongrois
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