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Ysaÿe - Sonata for solo violin in D minor, Op. 27 No. 3 'Ballade'
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Instrumental » Violin Solos
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Her tone is rich and beautiful, never losing its beauty in double and triple stops. Her technique is astonishing without being the primary focus at any given moment. She is exceptionally lyrical... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st July 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Solo Instrument
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Recording of the Year (and Instrumental)
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Ehnes’s breathtaking virtuosity is subsumed entirely into the musicality of these performances, bubbling to the surface only for passages such as the swashbuckling defiance that concludes the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Instrumental
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she's up there with the best...there's much of the tonal and dynamic palette that this music needs, characterising the forceful and passionate, as well as the shadowy and understated. She has... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2015, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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impressive, both in the quality of the playing and the variety of the music…in Ysaye's Third Sonata she yields nothing to the finest recordings in her accuracy and passion, the recording capturing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
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Strangers in Paradise
Ravel, Enescu, Ysaÿe, Prokofiev
Diana Tishchenko (violin), Zoltán Fejérvári (piano)
I’m hearing a genuinely distinctive, individual voice which is far from eccentric. The disc opens with Ravel’s Second Violin Sonata, which instantly grabs attention with its beauty of tone,... —
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Diapason d’Or, December 2019, Découverte
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2019
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In the solo Bach pieces, Weithaas makes even the A minor fugue sound like musical droplets falling onto a warm bed of contrapuntal moss, with ringingly true intonation and golden sound, subtly... —
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Pietsch truly takes ownership of Bartók’s Solo Sonata. Her interpretation is prompted by the idea of his ‘explosive seriousness’, a notion that fans the flames of her performance…always spinning... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
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Holliger: Violin Concerto & Ysaÿe: Sonata for solo violin
Thomas Zehetmair
SWR Symphony Orchestra, Heinz Holliger
The Concerto is a portrait of Louis Soutter, who studied the violin with Ysaÿe, and later became a painter of dark pictures… Holliger quotes the opening of this particular sonata in distorted... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2004, Editor's Choice
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As to where Kerson Leong stands in the comparative stakes, fairly near the top, that’s for sure – his version could be a happy first choice for any discerning listener. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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