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Journey Through A Century

Sueye Park (violin)

Journey Through A Century

Awards:

This is sensational!...at no point in the programme do you feel that the technical and intellectual demands are in any way compromising her interpretations, which are wholly excellent.

Journey Through A Century

Sueye Park (violin)

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Awards:

This is sensational!...at no point in the programme do you feel that the technical and intellectual demands are in any way compromising her interpretations, which are wholly excellent.

About

For her third disc, the young Korean violinist Sueye Park has explored the repertoire for solo violin, and chosen works spanning exactly 100 hundred years –from Max Reger’s Prelude and Fugue from 1909 to Penderecki’s Capriccio, composed in 2008. Framing the 20th century, the programme starts as a relay race of famous violinist-composers; Reger dedicating his piece to Kreisler, who dedicated his Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice to Ysaÿe, who wrote his Sonata No. 6 for the Spanish virtuoso Manuel Quiroga. In this series of names, that of Richard Strauss may come as a surprise, but his little-known Daphne-Etüde from 1945 is also dedicated to a violinist – his young grandson. The journey now turns eastwards with two solo sonatas, by Prokofiev and Weinberg, that were both composed in Moscow, albeit 20 years apart. These are followed by Isang Yun’s ‘Royal Theme’. The Korean-born composer uses the theme from Bach’s Musical Offering, but takes it on ‘a walk through the Asian tradition’ in the course of seven variations. In A Paganini, Alfred Schnittke revisits another colleague from the past – and one closely associated with the violin. Finally bringing us into the 21st century is Penderecki, whose early training as a violinist stood him in good stead when he composed his virtuosic Capriccio.

Contents and tracklist

I. Prelude
Track length5:03
II. Fugue
Track length3:10
I. Recitativo
Track length3:09
II. Scherzo-Caprice
Track length2:11
I. Moderato
Track length5:22
II. Theme with Variations
Track length3:14
III. Con brio. Allegro precipitato
Track length4:14
I. Monody
Track length1:49
II. Rests
Track length1:36
III. Intervals
Track length1:31
IV. Replies
Track length2:45
V. Accompaniment
Track length2:28
VI. Invocation
Track length2:50
VII. Syncopes
Track length3:27

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    September 2021
    Recording of the Month
  • Gramophone Awards
    2022
    Shortlisted - Instrumental

September 2021

This is sensational!...at no point in the programme do you feel that the technical and intellectual demands are in any way compromising her interpretations, which are wholly excellent.
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