Composer: Lera Auerbach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, György Kurtág, Alfred Schnittke, Helena Winkelman
Performer: Jonian Ilias Kadesha
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Catalogue: CKD676
Release: 2022
Size: 1.08 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Hommage à J. S. B.
02. Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Perpetuum mobile a
03. Winkelman: Ciaccona for Violin Solo
04. Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Perpetuum mobile b
05. Schnittke: Fugue for solo violin
06. Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Perpetuum mobile c
07. Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Népdalféle
08. Biber: Rosary Sonatas: XVI. Passacaglia in G Minor, C 105
09. Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: … féerie d’automne …
Bach: Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004
10. I. Allemande
11. II. Courante
12. III. Sarabande
13. IV. Gigue
14. V. Chaconne
Auerbach: Lonely Suite, Op. 70 “Ballet for a Lonely Violinist”
15. I. Dancing with Oneself
16. II. Boredom
17. III. No Escape
18. IV. Imaginary Dialogue
19. V. Worrisome Thought
20. VI. Question
Jonian Ilias Kadesha has worked with leading artists and orchestras such as Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Nicolas Altstaedt, Steven Isserlis and Patricia Kopatchinskaja to name but a few. For his debut album on Linn, he has recorded a high-flying recital of solo violin pieces spanning five centuries. One of the oldest pieces of music written for solo violin, Biber’s angelic and absolutely mesmerizing Passacaglia stands alongside Bach’s enduringly famous Second Partita, whose last movement is the starting point for the Ciaccona for Violin Solo by Swiss composer Helena Winkelman, which receives its first commercial recording here. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century works by Schnittke, Kurtág and Lera Auerbach, all heavily inspired by Bach’s music, complete the programme which augurs a fruitful partnership with a promising young talent.