Antje Weithaas: Bach & Ysaÿe, Vol. III

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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... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 17th Nov 2017
Catalogue No: AVI8553381
Label: Avi Music
Length: 71 minutes

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Bach, J S: Sonata for solo violin No. 3 in C major, BWV1005

Work length23:00

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I. Adagio

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II. Fuga

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III. Largo

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IV. Allegro assai

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Ysaÿe: Sonata for solo violin in E major, Op. 27 No. 6

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Sonata No. 6 in E Major for Violin Solo, Op. 27: Allegro giusto non troppo vivo

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Ysaÿe: Sonata for solo violin in E minor, Op. 27 No. 4

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I. Allemande. Lento maestoso

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II. Sarabande. Quasi Lento

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III. Finale. Presto ma non troppo

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Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 1 in B minor, BWV1002

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I. Allemanda

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II. Double

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III. Corrente

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IV. Double

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V. Sarabande

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VI. Double

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VII. Tempo di Borea

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VIII. Double

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It was Antje Weithaas' own idea to jointly record Johann Sebastian Bach's Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin in conjunction with Eugène Ysaÿe's six solo violin sonatas. "The works by Bach are rather well-known", she remarks. "But what about the Ysaÿe sonatas? Ysaÿe is invariably shoved into the virtuoso corner, but as a composer he is to be taken quite seriously!'"

These solo works by Bach inspired Belgian violin celebrity Eugène Ysaÿe to write his Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, op. 27, dedicating each one of them to a great violinist of his time. Ysaÿe is regarded as the main representative of the Franco-Flemish violin school, closely associated with the fin-de-siècle period when architecture was awash with flowery ornaments. In painting and poetry, meanwhile, symbolism and sensuality abounded. Artists either adored or detested Wagner, who became the main subject of musical discussions throughout Europe. Ysaÿe burst in on the concert scene as a child prodigy, studied in Brussels and Paris, travelled the world and eventually took up the directorship of Brussels Conservatory. He started to conduct more frequently – particularly the "Société Symphonique des Concerts Ysaÿe", an orchestra he had founded himself. He also found more time for composing. Ysaÿe is said to have conceived the plan of the Six Violin Sonatas within the course of one day in 1924, when he was 66 years old. In terms of violin technique and musical expression, each sonata is the character portrait of a renowned violinist of his day.

Antje Weithaas began playing the violin when she was 4 1/2 years old. She went on to study with Professor Werner Scholz at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin. In 1987 she won the Kreisler Competition in Graz, in 1988 the Bach Competition in Leipzig, and in 1991 the International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hannover. Antje Weithaas has held a professorship for violin at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin since 2004; she plays a violin made by Peter Greiner in 2001. Her stage presence and charisma rivet an audience without ever detracting from the work being performed. Unpretentiously, always allowing the music to take centre stage, Antje Weithaas delivers every detail of the score with utterly convincing musical intelligence and unrivalled technical mastery.

'It's a treat...The ever probing Weithaas adroitly combines poetry, technical wizardry and humanity.' --Fiona Maddocks, The Observer, 3rd December 2017

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February 2018

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 the Fourth] with a golden cantabile that imbues every phrase with warm sensuality…she somehow finds the time to shape the finale’s restless undulations with a series of exquisite temporal inflections.

January 2018

Most notably Weithaas has taken all her ornamentations and bowings from Bach’s score. Equally key to her sound, though, is that she’s playing on a modern set-up…If you ever needed proof that 18th-century Cremona is not a prerequisite for tonal riches, individuality and power, then Weithaas’s Greiner does that job very nicely.

3rd December 2017

It’s a treat...The ever probing Weithaas adroitly combines poetry, technical wizardry and humanity.

Antje Weithaas: Bach & Ysaÿe, Vol. III

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