Composer: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
Performer: Sherban Lupu, Ian Hobson
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0138
Release: 2011
Size: 378 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Fantaisie Brillante sur la Marche et la Romance d’Otello de Rossini, Op. 11 (version for violin and piano)
01. Introduction: Andante non troppo
02. March: Allegro moderato
03. Variation 1
04. Variation 2
05. Romance: Andante
06. Variation 3: Moderato
07. Tempo dell’ introduzione
08. Finale: Piu mosso
09. Bolero, Op. 16 (version for violin and piano)
2 Romances, Op. 15
10. No. 1. Allegretto molto cantabile
11. No. 2. Agitato ma non allegro
Souvenir de Pre aux Clercs
12. Introduction: Andante
13. Tema: Lento
14. Variation 1: Ritenuto
15. Variation 2
16. Variation 3
17. Cadenza
18. Andante
19. Finale
Pensees Fugitives
20. No. 1. Passe: Poco agitato
21. No. 2. Souvenir: Allegretto con molto calore
22. No. 3. Romance: Allegretto con moto
23. No. 4. Lied: Allegretto con moto
24. No. 5. Agitato: Molto vivace
25. No. 6. Abschied: Con moto
Variations brilliantes sur un Theme de Rossini, Op. 4
26. Introduzione: Andante
27. Tema
28. Variation 1
29. Variation 2
30. Variation 3
31. Variation 4: Andante assai
32. Variation 5: Piu mosso, con molto fuoco
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812–65) was one of the leading musicians of his day, a friend of Berlioz, Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn, and for Joseph Joachim ‘the greatest violinist I ever heard’. But the popular encore pieces by which Ernst is remembered today represent only a fraction of his output. This second CD – in a series of six presenting his complete violin works for the first time – combines brilliant display and expressive melody: the Otello Fantasy and Rossini Variations show Ernst developing Paganini’s inheritance, and the Boléro, Two Romances and Pensées fugitives show why he was such a favourite in Parisian salons.