Kopatchinskaja: Rapsodia

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[in the Enescu] both Kopatchinskaya and her partner Mihaela Ursuleasa [project] an instinctive feeling for the almost improvisatory musical line. Finally Ravel's Tzigane is presented not as an... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Oct 2010
Catalogue No: V5193
Label: Naive
Length: 75 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

December 2010

Chamber Choice
Gramophone Magazine

January 2011

Editor's Choice

anon.: Ciocârlia

Work length4:06

$0.80

$1.05

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Emilia Kopatchinskaja, Viktor Kopatchinsky, Martin Gjakonovski, Mihaela Ursuleasa, Anonymous, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Emilia Kopatchinskaja, Viktor Kopatchinsky, Martin Gjakonovski, Mihaela Ursuleasa

Enescu: Ménétrier

Work length3:50

$0.80

$1.05

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Emilia Kopatchinskaja, Viktor Kopatchinsky, Martin Gjakonovski, Mihaela Ursuleasa

anon.: Doina Et Hora Marit?

Work length3:15

$0.80

$1.05

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Emilia Kopatchinskaja, Viktor Kopatchinsky, Martin Gjakonovski, Mihaela Ursuleasa

Enescu: Violin sonata No.3

Work length26:39

$2.40

$3.15

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Emilia Kopatchinskaja

Moderato malinconico

Track length9:16

$0.80

$1.05

Andante sostenuto e misterioso

Track length8:44

$0.80

$1.05

Allegro con brio, ma non troppo mosso

Track length8:39

$0.80

$1.05

Ligeti: Duo et hora for cimbalom solo: Doina

Work length3:06

$0.80

$1.05

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Mihaela Ursuleasa

anon.: Duo et hora for cimbalom solo: Hora

Work length4:46

$0.80

$1.05

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Emilia Kopatchinskaja, Viktor Kopatchinsky, Martin Gjakonovski, Mihaela Ursuleasa

anon.: Hora

Work length2:23

$0.80

$1.05

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Emilia Kopatchinskaja, Viktor Kopatchinsky, Martin Gjakonovski, Mihaela Ursuleasa

Kurtág: 8 duos for violin and cimbalom, op.4

Work length7:12

$6.40

$8.40

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Viktor Kopatchinsky

No.1

Track length0:26

$0.80

$1.05

No.2

Track length0:54

$0.80

$1.05

No.3

Track length0:33

$0.80

$1.05

No.4

Track length1:34

$0.80

$1.05

No.5

Track length0:40

$0.80

$1.05

No.6

Track length0:26

$0.80

$1.05

No.7

Track length1:37

$0.80

$1.05

No.8

Track length1:02

$0.80

$1.05

Dinicu: Hora Staccato

Work length2:17

$0.80

$1.05

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Ravel: Tzigane

Work length10:31

$0.80

$1.05

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Viktor Kopatchinsky, Mihaela Ursuleasa

Sánchez-Chiong: Crin

Work length1:14

$0.80

$1.05

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Sánchez-Chiong: Calusari 1

Work length1:25

$0.80

$1.05

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Emilia Kopatchinskaja, Viktor Kopatchinsky, Martin Gjakonovski, Mihaela Ursuleasa

Sánchez-Chiong: Calusari 2

Work length2:33

$0.80

$1.05

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Emilia Kopatchinskaja, Viktor Kopatchinsky, Martin Gjakonovski, Mihaela Ursuleasa

Sánchez-Chiong: Calusari 3

Work length1:38

$0.80

$1.05

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Emilia Kopatchinskaja, Viktor Kopatchinsky, Martin Gjakonovski, Mihaela Ursuleasa

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The exciting young Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaya, who earlier this year won a BBC Music Magazine Award for her recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, is here joined by a small group of musicians including her mother, also a violinist, and father, a renowned cimbalom player, in a selection of pieces that reflect Eastern European folk and Gypsy traditions. Amongst the composers represented are Enescu, Ligeti, Kurtág, and Ravel.

One of the few pieces to feature the cimbalom as a main instrument in the standard classical repertoire is György Kurtág’s 8 Duos for Violin and Cimbalom. Kurtág comes from a part of Hungary close to Romania, and his music in these short pieces is steeped in the folk tradition both countries. The Romanian composer George Enescu’s music is celebrated for its Gypsy rhythms and these elements come to the fore in his Third Violin Sonata.

Patricia Kopatchinskaya was born in Moldova and raised in a family of musicians. "Rapsodia" was the name of the former band of her father Victor Kopatchinsky, one of the most famous cimbalom players of his generation. Her parents were constantly travelling with their ensemble, playing 300 concerts every year - in the Kremlin for the government and the generals, in factories and prisons, and in Siberia, North Africa, and Latin America. With her father on the cimbalom, her mother playing a second violin and friends such as Mihaela Ursuleasa, she here performs works rooted in traditional Moldovan and Eastern European music alongside pieces such as Ravel’s Tzigane that have a Gypsy inspiration.

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Christmas 2010

[in the Enescu] both Kopatchinskaya and her partner Mihaela Ursuleasa [project] an instinctive feeling for the almost improvisatory musical line. Finally Ravel's Tzigane is presented not as an empty virtuoso showpiece but as a work brimming with colour and imagination.

January 2011

[Kopatchinskaja's] playing, and that of everyone else involved, leaves you in no doubt that refined sophistication and raw intensity can fuse, setting the music on fire...This well-recorded disc is a breath of the freshest musical air.

March 2011

even before the first track is over, you realize this is a bit different…The greatest element of surprise comes in the form of Ravel's Tzigane...The resulting performance has an authenticity to Hungarian folk music Ravel could hardly have imagined...Kopatchinskaja's boldness and spirit of adventure should appeal to like-minded listeners.

The Independent on Sunday 12th December 2010

The daughter of a cimbalom virtuoso and a classically trained violinist, she is equally at home in both worlds. Enescu's Sonata No 3 is framed by dances and extrapolations by Ligeti and Kurtag. Ravel's touristic "Tzigane" is transformed, while Jorge Sanchez-Chiong's "Crin" sees Kopatchinskaja vocalise Dada-esque syllables to kinetic pizzicato. Spicy and surprising.

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