Vaughan Jones - The Hidden Violin: Romantic Virtuoso Works for Solo Violin (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Vaughan Jones has his hands full with this repertoire. Rare (for which read ‘obscure’) music for violin from the late 19th and early 20th centuries is his speciality, and this disc represents work he does on the exploration, arrangement and transcription of this lesser-spotted repertoire. Like most music for solo violin presented as suites or sonatas, Bach casts his long shadow over many of them. And although they may not display the originality or depth of, for instance, Ysaÿe’s own examples, the two career-spanning sonatas of Benjamin Godard are a good example of a diverting snapshot in time. They offer a sentimentality amplified in the monomaniacal sonata of his Norwegian contemporary Christian Sinding and completely absent in the curiously sociopathic music of Franz von Vecsey.

This recording aims to cast a spotlight on some of the remarkable, yet forgotten music written for the solo violin between c.1840 and 1919. The long shadow of JS Bach and his own Partitas and Sonatas for Solo Violin looms over some of the works contained on this disc, yet many of the movements liberate themselves from this influence, displaying a resourcefulness and an array of moods that draw the listener into what can otherwise be the precariously narrow sound world of the solo violin. Many of the pieces have never been recorded before and some, particularly the Second Godard Sonata and Saint-Lubin Fantaisie, deserve to take their place beside Bach, Bartók and Ysaÿe as interesting additions to the central works in the solo violin repertoire.

Tracklist:

01 - Benjamin Godard: Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin in B Minor, Op. 20: I. Prélude (Lento)
02 - Benjamin Godard: Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin in B Minor, Op. 20: II. Gavotte
03 - Benjamin Godard: Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin in B Minor, Op. 20: III. Adagio
04 - Benjamin Godard: Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin in B Minor, Op. 20: IV. Menuet (Allegro)
05 - Christian Sinding: Suite in D minor, Op. 123: IV. Andante (Chaconne) – Non troppo allegro – Con brio – Moderato – Meno mosso – Andante
06 - Benjamin Godard: Sonata No. 2 for Solo Violin in A Minor, Op. posth.: I. Sarabande (Molto moderato e pomposamente)
07 - Benjamin Godard: Sonata No. 2 for Solo Violin in A Minor, Op. posth.: II. Rigodon (Vivace)
08 - Benjamin Godard: Sonata No. 2 for Solo Violin in A Minor, Op. posth.: III. Adagio ma non troppo
09 - Benjamin Godard: Sonata No. 2 for Solo Violin in A Minor, Op. posth.: IV. Bourrée (Allegretto non troppo)
10 - Franz von Vecsey: Preludio e Fuga in C minor: Preludio (Andante)
11 - Franz von Vecsey: Preludio e Fuga in C minor: Fuga (Allegro)
12 - Léon de Saint-Lubin: Fantaisie sur un thème de Lucia di Lammermoor, Op. 46
13 - Joseph Joachim: Schottische Melodie

Produced by Vaughan Jones and Jonathan Mayer.
Recording, Editing and Mastering Engineer: Jonathan Mayer.
Recorded September 2013 at Monkswood Studios in Waltham Abbey, UK.


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