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

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).