Composer: Béla Bartók, Clémont Philibert Léo Delibes, Ernö Dohnányi, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel
Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Polina Leschenko
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA387
Release: 2018
Size: 911 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Poulenc: Violin Sonata, FP 119
01. I. Allegro con fuoco
02. II. Intermezzo. Très lent et calme
03. III. Presto tragico
Delibes: Coppelia
04. No. 2, Waltz (Arr. E. Dohnányi for Piano)
Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 2, BB 85, Sz. 76
05. I. Molto moderato
06. II. Allegretto
07. Ravel: Tzigane
For her third album on Alpha, Patricia Kopatchinskaja is joined by a highly talented pianist whose approach to music is as extremist as hers, Polina Leschenko. Together they explore pieces that have many points in common. The Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi, grandniece of Joseph Joachim, was a “muse” to both Bartók and Ravel. In 1922 and 1923, she premiered the two Bartók sonatas for violin and piano and Ravel dedicated Tzigane to her. He wrote to Bartók: “You have convinced me to compose for our friend, who plays so fluently, a little piece whose diabolical difficulty will bring to life the Hungary of my dreams; and since it will be for violin, why don’t we call it Tzigane?” Of course, Tzigane by Patricia Kopatchinskaja, who has been playing and dancing this music since her childhood in Moldova, does not sound like salon music… After a much-fêted recital at Wigmore Hall in 2017, the Financial Times wrote: ” In another life, Patricia Kopatchinskaja might have been a rock star. This is a violinist who loves taking risks . . . But the final reward wasworth waiting for: a denouement of astonishing force.”