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Hungarian Dances

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Label: Onyx

Cat No: ONYX4039

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 29th September 2008

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About

Philippe Graffin is the latest violinist to join Onyx, after several outstanding discs of rare French and English repertoire for labels such as Hyperion and Avie. This new recital brings together the mesmerising intensity of Gypsy violin playing with classical composers’ response to it.

Writer and journalist Jessica Duchen explains: “When I asked Philippe Graffin, a treasured friend and colleague, to check the manuscript of Hungarian Dances for violinistic errors, I little dreamed he’d respond by making this recording: a CD inspired by the novel. Yet the novel was partly inspired by a CD – Philippe and Claire’s beautiful recital ‘In the Shade of Forests’, evoking the spirit of the archetypal wandering Gypsy violinist”.

Philippe’s recital is loosely based around the book but is also designed to work as a programme in its own right with several pieces chosen only for the recording, including rarities by such composers as Von Vecsey, Hubay, Scarlatescu and Arthur Hartmann.

Claire Désert is well-known in France for several solo CDs for FNAC and other labels and here plays both piano and piano luthéal, the ‘prepared piano’ that Ravel had made for Tzigane in 1919 and which imitates the sound of a Hungarian cimbalom to striking effect in many of these pieces.

Track Listing:
1 Erno Dohnanyi (1877-1960): Andante Rubato alla Zingaresca
2 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Hungarian Dance No.2 in D minor (arr. Joachim)
3 Jeno Hubay (1858-1937): Hejre Kati Op.32 No.4
Franz Liszt (1811-1886):
4 Romance oubliée S132
5 Mephisto Waltz No.1 S514 (arr. Milstein)
6 Franz von Vecsey (1893-1935): Valse triste
7 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Hungarian Dance No.6 in B flat (arr. Joachim)
8 Bela Bartok (1881-1945): Romanian Folkdances Sz56 (arr.Szekely)
9 Ioan Scarlatescu (1872-1922): Bagatelle
10 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Hungarian Dance No.7 in A major (arr. Joachim)
11 Vittorio Monti (1868-1922) Csárdás
12 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Hymne zur Verherrlichung des grossen Joachim (Hymn in honour of the Great Joachim)
(Hebe Mensinga violin II, Szymon Marciniak bass)
Bela Bartok (1881-1945): Duos for two violins
13 No 26: Teasing Song
14 No.28: Sorrow
15 No.32: Song from Máramaros
16 No.35: Ruthenian Kolomeika
17 No.42: Arabian Song
18 No.43: Pizzicato
(Tom Eisner violin II)
19 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Hungarian Dance No.9 in (arr. Joachim)
20 Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962): Marche miniature viennoise
21 Claude Debussy (1862-1918): La plus que lente (arr. Leon Rocques)
22 Arthur Hartmann (1881-1956): L’amour, valse bluette

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