Bartók, Bach, Schneeberger: Works for Solo Violin / Smirnov

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Label
First Hand Records
Release Date
August 20, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH BARTOK SCHNEEBERGER
    • PERFORMER
      Dmitry Smirnov
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 20, 2021
    • UPC
      5060216348117
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FHR117
    • LABEL
      First Hand Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Tempo di ciaccona

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Dmitry Smirnov

    2. II. Fuga: Risoluto, non troppo vivo

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Dmitry Smirnov

    3. III. Melodia: Adagio

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Dmitry Smirnov

    4. IV. Presto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Dmitry Smirnov

    5. I. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Dmitry Smirnov

    6. II. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Dmitry Smirnov

    7. III. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Dmitry Smirnov

    8. IV. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Dmitry Smirnov

    9. V. Ciaccona

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Dmitry Smirnov

    10. I. Introduzione (quasi cadenza): Adagio, rubato

      Composer: Hansheinz Schneeberger

      Performer: Dmitry Smirnov

    11. II. Allegro comodo e grazioso

      Composer: Hansheinz Schneeberger

      Performer: Dmitry Smirnov

    12. III. Finale: Allegro vivace, ma non troppo

      Composer: Hansheinz Schneeberger

      Performer: Dmitry Smirnov


Russian violinist Dmitry Smirnov’s début recording on FHR features works by master baroque composer (J.S. Bach), a leading figure of 20th century music (Béla Bartók) and a wonderful newly discovered work by influential Swiss violinist Hansheinz Schneeberger who died in 2019. The Schneeberger Sonata, written two years before Bartók’s Sonata, is a violin show piece, displaying much imagination in its idiomatic and virtoustic violin writing – this is the first recording of the work. There are many connections that link these three works together – the Bartók and Schneeberger sonatas show influences of Bach. Also, Bartók’s First Violin Concerto was premièred by Schneeberger. On this album Smirnov plays a modern violin made by Philipp Bonhoeffer (Bartók and Schneeberger) and a 1795 Johann Schönfelder violin (Bach).