Bach’s Long Shadow: Works for Solo Violin | Orchid Classics ORC100165

Bach’s Long Shadow: Works for Solo Violin

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Label: Orchid Classics

Cat No: ORC100165

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 28th May 2021

Contents

About

Spanish-American violinist Francisco Fullana has taken the Partita no.3 in E by J.S. Bach and built around it a programme of interlinked yet contrasting works, resulting in an original and intricately constructed album.

J.S. Bach’s output has had a far-reaching impact, casting the Long Shadow that gives this album its name. Fullana uses gut strings, a baroque bow and historically informed ornamentation for his performance of Bach’s E major Partita, creating a pared-down, immediate interpretation.

Ysaÿe was inspired to write his Op.27 Sonatas after hearing Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas. Yet whereas Bach’s music demands restraint from the performer, Ysaÿe’s encourages virtuosity. There is darkness in this Sonata, too, and Fullana performs the work with electrifying energy. Fritz Kreisler’s Recitativo & Scherzo was dedicated to Ysaÿe, and Fullana feels a special kinship with Kreisler: he plays Kreisler’s first Guarneri violin, the 1735 ‘Mary Portman’ Guarneri del Gesù.

The recital culminates in Ysaÿe’s Sonata for Two Violins. Ysaÿe wrote the work to perform with Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, who gave her name to a violin competition that was most recently won by violinist Stella Chen, Fullana’s duo partner on this album.

Reviews

As a creative springboard for the remainder of this recital, Francisco Fullana includes [Bach's] E major Partita, employing gut strings, Baroque bow and authentic ornamentation. In so doing, he finds a compelling middle-way between Romantic and period-instrument rhetoric, inflecting phrases with a smiling affection that feels entirely natural.  Julian Haylock (Instrumental Choice)
BBC Music Magazine August 2021

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