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Special offer. The Polish Violin
Jennifer Pike (violin) & Petr Limonov (piano)
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Chamber Choice
Pike’s exceptional sensitivity to tonal inflection and temporal flexibility works wonders in Szymanowski’s Mythes…She invests [the Karłowicz] with such open-air freshness and gentle affection...
Special offer. The Polish Violin
Jennifer Pike (violin) & Petr Limonov (piano)
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Chamber Choice
Pike’s exceptional sensitivity to tonal inflection and temporal flexibility works wonders in Szymanowski’s Mythes…She invests [the Karłowicz] with such open-air freshness and gentle affection...
About
The acclaimed violinist Jennifer Pike returns to Chandos to explore her heritage through the repertoire of a group of composers fundamental to the history of Polish music for the violin. From Janiewicz in the late eighteenth century right through to Bacewicz in the middle of the twentieth, Poland produced a number of composer-violinists well known across Europe. All of them were talented musicians as well as composers, their compositions technically demanding. Jennifer Pike here plays music by Karlowicz, Szymanowski, Wieniawski, and Moszkowski with complete control and deep feeling, sympathetically accompanied by Petr Limonov, winner of the Nikolai Rubinstein International Piano Competition.
Contents and tracklist
- Jennifer Pike (violin), Peter Limonov (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2018
- Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
- Jennifer Pike (violin), Peter Limonov (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2018
- Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
- Jennifer Pike (violin), Peter Limonov (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2018
- Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
- Jennifer Pike (violin), Peter Limonov (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2018
- Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
- Jennifer Pike (violin), Peter Limonov (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2018
- Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
- Jennifer Pike (violin), Peter Limonov (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2018
- Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
- Jennifer Pike (violin), Peter Limonov (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2018
- Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
- Jennifer Pike (violin), Peter Limonov (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2018
- Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
Spotlight on this release
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Jennifer Pike on The Polish Violin
10th Jan 2019
The violinist talks to Katherine about her new album of music by Wieniawski, Szymanowski, Karłowicz and Moszkowski, released last Friday on Chandos Records.
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineFebruary 2019Chamber Choice
February 2019
Pike’s exceptional sensitivity to tonal inflection and temporal flexibility works wonders in Szymanowski’s Mythes…She invests [the Karłowicz] with such open-air freshness and gentle affection that it emerges as though hot off the press…Limonov partners her devotedly with great skill and sensitivity, captured in exemplary sound by producer Rachel Smith and engineers Jonathan Cooper and Cheryl Jessop
February 2019
This is – in the best possible sense – a high-calorie recital…Pike approaches the Mythes with a tone of glistening, succulent sweetness, coupled to generous vibrato, swooping, sensuous phrasing and intense, often dazzling radiance. Her intonation, even in harmonics and double-stops, us superbly assured…A simply ravishing disc, thrillingly played.
April 2019
Brilliant and personal exploration of a violinist’s cultural heritage
classicalsource.com February 2019
Pike gives us some fine double-stopping in the passionate central section.
