Luka Faulisi: Aria | Sony 19658765272

Luka Faulisi: Aria

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Label: Sony

Cat No: 19658765272

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 3rd March 2023

Contents

Artists

Luka Faulisi (violin)
Itamar Golan (piano)

Works

Szymanowski, Karol

King Roger
» Roxana's Song (arr. for violin and piano)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Eugene Onegin, op.24
» Kuda, kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (arr. Leopold Auer for violin & piano)

Verdi, Giuseppe

La Traviata
» Sempre libera (arr. Luka Faulisi)

Waxman, Franz

Carmen Fantasy

Wieniawski, Henryk

Fantasie brillante on themes from Gounod's Faust, op.20

Zimbalist, Efrem

Concert Phantasy on Themes from Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'or

Artists

Luka Faulisi (violin)
Itamar Golan (piano)

About

“Aria” marks the refreshingly unconventional Sony Classical debut of rising Italian-Serbian-French violinist Luka Faulisi. Enhancing operatic melodies with violinistic fireworks, the recording presents arias and scenes arranged for violin and piano by some of the great violinist-composers of the past and including an arrangement by Faulisi himself.

Among the operatic jewels included are Franz Waxman’s Carmen Fantasy (as made famous by Jascha Heifetz), Henryk Wieniawski’s Fantasy on Themes from Gounod’s Faust, Leopold Auer’s arrangement of ‘Lensky’s Aria’ from Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin, and Fausili’s own version of Violetta’s glittering aria ‘Sempre libera’ from Verdi’s La Traviata.

In addition to popular classics, the album’s rarities include the stunning ‘Roxana’s aria’ from King Roger, an opera from 1924 by the expressionist Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (arranged by Pawel Kochański). Also included is Efrem Zimbalist’s fantasy on melodies from Rimsky-Korsakov’s fairytale opera Le Coq d’or.

Storytelling and the sensitivity of the human voices are at the heart of the album, says Faulisi. ‘I was looking for arrangements that would avoid any sense of gratuitous virtuosity and excessive ostentation.’

Luka Faulisi is one of the most promising violinists of the young generation.  He signed with Sony Classical in 2022 aged just 20. Faulisi studied at the Maastricht Conservatory with Boris Belkin and now at the Academy Lorenzo Perosi, Biella, Italy with Pavel Berman.

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