Composer: Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen, Franz Peter Schubert, Robert Schumann, Igor Stravinsky
Performer: Alena Baeva, Vadym Kholodenko
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1021
Release: 2024
Size: 1.13 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Schubert: Fantasie in C major for violin and piano, D934
01. I. Andante molto
02. II. Allegretto
03. III. Andantino
04. IV. Allegro vivace
05. V. Allegretto
06. VI. Presto
Stravinsky: Divertimento (transcription for violin & piano by Stravinsky & Samuel Dushkin from Le Baiser de la Fée)
07. I. Sinfonia
08. II. Danses suisses
09. III. Scherzo
10. IV. (a) Pas de deux. Adagio
11. V. (b) Pas de deux. Variation
12. VI. (c) Pas de deux. Coda
Schumann: Märchenbilder, Op. 113
13. I. Nicht schnell
14. II. Lebhaf
15. III. Rasch
16. IV. Langsam
17. Messiaen: Fantaisie
Violinist Alena Baeva joins Alpha Classics for several recordings, starting with an album of chamber music with pianist Vadym Kholodenko, her favourite partner. Together they offer an eclectic and unusual programme of Schubert’s fearsome and magnificent Fantasy for violin and piano , composed a year before his death… This is followed by Stravinsky’s joyous and boisterous miniatures in a collection entitled Divertimento , proposed as an abridgement of the ballet Le Baiser de la fée ( The Fairy’s Kiss ). Olivier Messiaen composed a Fantaisie for his first wife, the violinist Claire Delbos, but the work was not published until 2007. Die Märchenbilder by Schumann complete the programme. Initially a pupil at the Moscow Conservatory, Alena Baeva later left Russia and was taught by Shlomo Mintz, Mstislav Rostropovich, Boris Garlitsky and Seiji Ozawa. At just 16, she won the Grand Prize in the Henryk Wieniawski International Competition, and many other prizes followed. Alena Baeva plays the Guarneri del Gesù “ex-William Kroll” of 1738. Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko was awarded the Van Cliburn Gold Medal in 2013.