Performer: Sueye Park, Love Derwinger
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Catalogue: BIS2382
Release: 2018
Size: 1.11 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Sarasate: Introduction and Tarantella, Op. 43
02. Elgar: Salut d’amour, Op. 12
03. Kreisler: La Gitana
04. Kreisler: Tambourin Chinois, Op. 3
Dvořák: Gypsy Melodies, Op. 55 (B104)
05. No. 4, Songs My Mother Taught Me (Arr. F. Kreisler for Violin & Piano)
06. Milstein: Paganiniana
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42
07. No. 3, Mélodie in E-Flat Major
08. Wieniawski: Scherzo-Tarantelle in G minor, Op. 16
Rachmaninov: Songs, Op. 34
09. No. 14, Vocalise in C-Sharp Minor (Arr. S. Yokoyama for Violin & Piano)
Falla: La vida breve
10. Danse espagnole No. 1 (Arr. F. Kreisler for Violin & Piano)
11. Grasse: Wellenspeil (Waves at Play)
Ernst: The last Rose of Summer
12. The Last Rose of Summer “Polyphonic Study No. 6”
Heifetz: 5 Lieder, Op. 105: No. 1. Wie Melodien zieht es mir (arr. J. Heifetz for violin and piano)
13. Contemplation (After Brahms’ Op. 105 No. 1)
Sueye Park introduced herself to the general public in 2017 with no less a calling-card than Paganini’s 24 Caprices for solo violin. On the present disc, the South-Korean violinist (born in 2000) has a pianist at her side, namely Love Derwinger, himself known from a number of recordings. The repertoire is also a more varied offering this time, with violin favourites such as Elgar’s tender Salut d’amour and Tchaikovsky’s Mélodie, as well as more virtuosic fare, for instance in the fireworks of Wieniawski’s Scherzo-Tarantelle. Sueye also includes two solo works on the disc: Ernst’s much-loved Last Rose and in a nod to her previous disc Paganiniana, Nathan Milstein’s fantasy on themes by Paganini. Performed with equal measures of poetic sensitivity and effortless virtuosity, this is a recital to dip into as well as to listen to from start to finish from the fiery passion of Pablo de Sarasate’s Introduction et Tarantelle to Contemplation, Heifetz transcription of Brahms’s song Wie Melodien zieht es mir.