150 Years of Opera Fantasies: From Belcanto to Jazz
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Label: MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm)
Cat No: MDG9032134
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 6th September 2019
Contents
Works
Fantasia on 'La Traviata' by Giuseppe Verdi, op.50Concert Fantasy on Themes from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, op.19
Fantasie sur 'La vie pour le Czar' ('Ivan Susanin') de Glinka
Fantaisie sur Faust de Ch. Gounod pour violon et piano
Norma de Bellini: Fantaisie sur la 4eme corde, op.18
Artists
Volker Reinhold (violin)Ralph Zedler (piano)
Works
Fantasia on 'La Traviata' by Giuseppe Verdi, op.50Concert Fantasy on Themes from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, op.19
Fantasie sur 'La vie pour le Czar' ('Ivan Susanin') de Glinka
Fantaisie sur Faust de Ch. Gounod pour violon et piano
Norma de Bellini: Fantaisie sur la 4eme corde, op.18
Artists
Volker Reinhold (violin)Ralph Zedler (piano)
About
After Volker Reinhold’s successful release of Pablo de Sarasate’s complete fantasies and paraphrases (MDG9031819) the highly sought-after Schwerin concertmaster once again broadens our horizons with his piano partner Ralph Zedler and presents virtuoso opera arrangements spanning 150 years: discoveries are guaranteed! La traviata of course is a must on every programme.
Antonio Bazzini transformed Verdi’s famous opera into an intimate character portrait of Violetta and two contributions were penned by Henri Vieuxtemps. His fantasy on Bellini’s Norma is to be played in its entirety on the violin’s lowest string, which for this purpose is to be tuned a fourth higher, from G to C - ŕ la Paganini! Here the youthful violin magician can very much be heard, while his late work on Gounod’s Faust reveals the mature artist.
Reinhold and Zedler conclude their entertaining tour through one-and-a-half centuries with two works that may not be so well known but for this precise reason arouse all the more interest. František Ondříček looks eastward with his arrangement of Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar, and Igor Frolov, who was once David Oistrakh’s assistant, supplies the dazzling conclusion with Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and its jazzy touches, of course including “Summertime”.
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