Eroica: Tovey, Sammons, Elgar - Music for Solo Violin
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Label: EM Records
Cat No: EMRCD079
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 27th January 2023
Contents
Works
Etudes caracteristiques (5) for solo violin, op.24Virtuosic Studies for the Daily Practice of the Violin, op.21
Artists
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin)Works
Etudes caracteristiques (5) for solo violin, op.24Virtuosic Studies for the Daily Practice of the Violin, op.21
Artists
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin)About
The disc also presents a selection of the Virtuosic Studies by Albert Sammons, the violinist who made benchmark recordings of Elgar's Violin Sonata and Concerto and who made a highly significant contribution to British violin-playing in the early years of the twentieth century. These are being recorded here for the first time.
Dedicated to the violinist Adolf Busch, Donald Francis Tovey's Sonata eroica was composed in 1913. In common with many works in this genre, it owes much to the solo-violin works of J. S. Bach, most obviously with the inclusion of a fugue – this, like Bach's own fugue, in the same key, of the Sonata for Solo Violin, BWV 1005, exploits the inversion of its subject during its course – but also in the character and the texture of the Scherzo, which recalls the Presto and Allegro movements from Bach's solo sonatas and partitas, and in the colour and the structure of the Andante tranquillo.
Albert Sammons is best remembered today as an executant violinist, well-known for his association with the violin works of Elgar as well as with such concertos as those by Moeran and Delius. The Virtuosic Studies for the Daily Practice of the Violin are divided into two volumes, the first containing twenty studies, the second, eighteen. Many of them focus on one or two particular aspects of violin technique: some are concerned with the development of facility in various styles of bowing, for instance, whilst some develop left-hand dexterity in the context of rapid scales and arpeggios or position- shifting; and, as such, their appeal lies more in their value to violinists rather than as concert works. Certain of them, however, such as no.9 and no.33, have a more immediate musical impact, and those represented on this recording showcase some of these examples whilst also seeking to present a small cross-section of the disciplines that the Studies explore.
Elgar's Etudes caracteristiques date from 1892, and, like Tovey's Sonata eroica, they follow a model: in this instance, the other keystone of the solo-violin repertoire, Paganini's Caprices, op.1. The five pieces are highly demanding, each exploring a different aspect of advanced violin technique.
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