Instrumental, Violin Solos, Ysaÿe (composer)
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Her tone is rich and beautiful, never losing its beauty in double and triple stops. Her technique is astonishing without being the primary focus at any given moment. She is exceptionally lyrical... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st July 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Solo Instrument
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Recording of the Year (and Instrumental)
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Ehnes’s breathtaking virtuosity is subsumed entirely into the musicality of these performances, bubbling to the surface only for passages such as the swashbuckling defiance that concludes the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Instrumental
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she's up there with the best...there's much of the tonal and dynamic palette that this music needs, characterising the forceful and passionate, as well as the shadowy and understated. She has... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2015, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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In the solo Bach pieces, Weithaas makes even the A minor fugue sound like musical droplets falling onto a warm bed of contrapuntal moss, with ringingly true intonation and golden sound, subtly... — More…
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impressive, both in the quality of the playing and the variety of the music…in Ysaye's Third Sonata she yields nothing to the finest recordings in her accuracy and passion, the recording capturing... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
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it is particularly exciting and refreshing to hear Weithaas in true isolation with her beautiful and varied tone...and absolutely meticulous technique. Most of all, you can hear her complex... — More…
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By tailoring his solo sonatas to fit the styles of six very different violinists Eugène Ysaÿe may have been acting as the ultimate critic, describing his subjects with musical illustrations... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2005, Editor's Choice
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As to where Kerson Leong stands in the comparative stakes, fairly near the top, that’s for sure – his version could be a happy first choice for any discerning listener. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Weithaas’s bewitching ability to make the violin ‘sing’ whatever the technical pressures involved reaches its apex in Ysaÿe’s one-movement Sixth Sonata…[and] embraces the opening Allemande [of... — More…
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L’Aurore is far greater than the sum of its parts...The album takes its name from the first movement of Ysaÿe’s fifth solo sonata, a work dedicated to his friend and former pupil Mathieu Crickboom.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Instrumental Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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