Subito! Julia Hwang: Music for violin and piano by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Lutosławski & Wieniawski

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The appeal here, quite aside from some excellent playing, is in the way the programme has been planned…Julia Hwang is a model of expressive purity in the solo part [of The Lark Ascending] while... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017 More…

Release Date: 2nd Jun 2017
Catalogue No: SIGCD486
Label: Signum
Length: 61 minutes

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Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45

Work length25:06

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Julia Hwang, Charles Matthews

I. Allegro molto ed appassionato

Track length9:34

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II. Allegretto espressivo alla Romanza

Track length7:31

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III. Allegro animato

Track length8:01

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Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

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Julia Hwang, Charles Matthews

Lutosławski: Subito: III. Allegro animato

Work length4:49

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Julia Hwang, Charles Matthews

Wieniawski: Fantaisie brillante on themes from Gounod's Faust, Op. 20

Work length17:07

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Julia Hwang, Charles Matthews

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Subito: suddenly, or immediately. And something else besides – a moment of revelation or transformation, charged with surprise.

When Witold Lutoslawski gave this title to the showpiece that he wrote for a violin competition in Indianapolis in 1994, he evoked all these qualities, and more: that delighted astonishment; the brilliant, piercing moment of musical communion between performer and listener that comes with true virtuosity.

On her debut disc, Julia Hwang has taken that idea, of virtuosity as communication, and embraced it from four very different directions. Grieg’s Violin Sonata No. 3 blends virtuosity with traditions both local and international, to say something unambiguously personal. Vaughan Williams' 'The Lark Ascending' refines violin technique into expression as pure as the song of a skylark. Lutoslawski’s 'Subito' creates a brief, dazzling moment whose very brilliance is its own meaning; and Henryk Wieniawski, entertainer par excellence, spins fantasy from another man’s tunes in his 'Fantaisie brillante sur des motifs de l’Opéra Faust de Gounod' – enriching them in the process.

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Awards Issue 2017

The appeal here, quite aside from some excellent playing, is in the way the programme has been planned…Julia Hwang is a model of expressive purity in the solo part [of The Lark Ascending] while Charles Matthews provides her with an appropriately stilled accompaniment.

August 2017

Hwang’s virtuosic spell dazzles with note-to-note precision and piercing clarity… This recording, then, is a winner for anyone interested not only in virtuosic violin playing in its various moods, but also in good playing generally

Subito! Julia Hwang

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