Sarasate: Complete Music for Violin and Orchestra
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PABLO de SARASATE
Sarasate: Complete Music for Violin and Orchestra
Tianwa Yang (violin) / Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra / Ernest Martínez Izquierdo
[ Naxos / 4 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Tuesday 22 December 2015
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Pablo de Sarasate was one of the most successful violinists in history, reigning supreme as an incandescent musical personality in the days when violinist-composers were a significant feature of concert life. Tianwa Yang has been described as "an unquestioned master of the violin...the rarest of violinists" (American Record Guide), and each volume of these stunning works for violin
and orchestra has been received with great international acclaim. Yang has achieved recognition as one of the world's outstanding instrumentalists with the 2014 Annual Prize of the German Record Critics for her Naxos recordings of the Complete Music for Violin by Sarasate, and she was named the 2015 ECHO Klassik Instrumentalist of the Year (Violin) for her Ysaÿe 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin - Naxos 8572995.
"All throughout, Yang seduces, teases, serenades, and sings with her unique sound. How to describe the Yang sound? It's more aggressive than most in attacking the violin's lowest notes, which have a full but slightly rough sound that can only be described (in Sarasate, at least) as sexy. It has an almost unreal facility for harmonics, pizzicati, and double stops so well blended together that they don't sound like double stops at all. It has a genius for occasional notes which are just murmured, to catch our ears and pull them in closer. It's got big legato phrases that seem to explode across the concert hall in their brilliance. It demands to be heard."
(MusicWeb Dec 2010 on Vol 2)
"Tianwa Yang is a sensationally talented young violinist. She has technique to burn. Her harmonics (and there are a lot of them) dazzle with their precision and lack of "hissiness"; her left-hand pizzicatos, special bowing effects, runs, and arpeggios fit naturally within a phrase rather than sticking out like the gaudy banners on a parade float. Best of all, she has a beautiful tone in cantabile phrases (check out the Romeo and Juliet fantasy) and a really seductive way with rubato that conveys emotion without distorting the rhythm."
(10/10 ClassicsToday Jan 2011 on Vol 2)
"Despite doing without any of his most popular pieces, this third instalment of Sarasate's music for violin and orchestra makes a most attractive programme...Yang is splendidly equipped as a Sarasate violinst, with her clear tone, pure intonation, impressive dexterity and light touch...[Her] playing is consistently lovely, capturing an essential part of the music's spirit" Gramophone on Volume 3
"I challenge anyone to pick holes in the performances on offer here by Tianwa Yang. I simply can't imagine this tuneful, technically demanding music being played any better than this. Full marks and a fitting finale to a great series." MusicWeb on Volume 4
Tracks:
Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20
Airs espagnols, Op. 18
Miramar (Zortzico), Op. 42
Pateneras, Op. 35
Nocturne-sérénade, Op. 45
Viva Sevilla!, Op. 38
Fantasie sur La Dame Blanche, Op. 3
Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25
Fantasy on Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Op. 5
Chansons Russes, Op. 49
El canto del ruiseñor, Op. 29
La chasse, Op. 44
Jota de Pablo, Op. 52
Concert Fantasy on Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Op. 54
Navarra, Op. 33
Muiñeiras, Op. 32
Fantasy on Gounod's Faust, Op. 13
Barcarolle vénitienne (Gondoliéra veneziana)
Introduction et Caprice-Jota, Op. 41
Introduction and Tarantella, Op. 43
Jota de San Fermin, Op. 36
Fantaisie sur le Don Juan de Mozart, Op. 51
Fantaisie sur Der Freischütz de Weber, Op. 14
Jota de Pamplona, Op. 50
Airs écossais, Op. 34
Le Rêve, Op. 53
L'Esprit follet
