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Bravo! Encores For Violin - Kreisler, Etc / Nikolaj Znaider
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Bravo! Encores For Violin - Kreisler, Etc / Nikolaj Znaider

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Composer
NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER
Artist
Nikolaj Znaider
Format
CD
Label
Sony Masterworks
Released
Feb 04, 2003
Catalog #
09026639602
UPC
090266396023

About

Nikolaj Znaider's star shines brightly in the constellation of up-and-coming violinists of the next generation. Since winning the Queen Elizabeth Competition 1997, Znaider's career has steadily mounted with international performances and critically-acclaimed recordings of violin concertos of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Glazunov and others. His new release on RCA, entitled Bravo!, sets a smaller stage with a collection of showpieces for solo violin, accompanied on most tracks by Israeli pianist Daniel Gortler.

Znaider's playing throughout is limber and precise, his immaculate technique inherited from Juilliard violin maven Dorothy De Lay, the teacher of Itzakh Perlman and Cho-Liang Ling, among others. Znaider fairly burns through the imposing demands of Eugène Ysaÿe's "Ballade" Sonata, but it's the refreshing lyrical parsimony in the slow stuff that demands notice. The two transcriptions of Chopin Nocturnes echo the kind of dry romanticism of the earliest violinists of the recorded era. In the famous Rachmaninoff Vocalise the effect of that reserve is magical; Znaider spins an endless thread of emotive melody that refuses to wear its heart on its sleeve. As with any good encore, you're grateful for the bonbon but left wanting another. What a boon to be able to simply repeat the track; an action we found ourselves repeating again and again with Znaider's Bravo!.

David Simmons, WQXR

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 Polonaise No. 1 in D Major, Op. 4 (version for violin and piano) 05:09
    Track
    1
    Title
    Polonaise No. 1 in D Major, Op. 4 (version for violin and piano)
    Duration
    05:09
    Composer
    Henryk Wieniawski
    Performer
    Nikolaj Znaider, Daniel Gortler
  2. 2 Spanish Dances, Op. 22: No. 1. Romanza andaluza 05:14
    Track
    2
    Title
    Spanish Dances, Op. 22: No. 1. Romanza andaluza
    Duration
    05:14
    Composer
    Pablo de Sarasate
    Performer
    Nikolaj Znaider, Daniel Gortler
  3. 3 14 Songs, Op. 34: No. 14. Vocalise in E Minor 04:54
    Track
    3
    Title
    14 Songs, Op. 34: No. 14. Vocalise in E Minor
    Duration
    04:54
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Performer
    Nikolaj Znaider, Daniel Gortler
  4. 4 Sonata for Solo Violin in D Minor, Op. 27, No. 3, "Ballade" 06:45
    Track
    4
    Title
    Sonata for Solo Violin in D Minor, Op. 27, No. 3, "Ballade"
    Duration
    06:45
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Nikolaj Znaider
  5. 5 Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 (arr. A. Wilhelmj for violin and piano) 06:50
    Track
    5
    Title
    Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 (arr. A. Wilhelmj for violin and piano)
    Duration
    06:50
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Nikolaj Znaider, Daniel Gortler
  6. 6 Nocturne No. 16 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, No. 2 (arr. J. Heifetz for violin and piano) 04:03
    Track
    6
    Title
    Nocturne No. 16 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, No. 2 (arr. J. Heifetz for violin and piano)
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Nikolaj Znaider, Daniel Gortler
  7. 7 Recitative and Scherzo-Caprice, Op. 6 04:44
    Track
    7
    Title
    Recitative and Scherzo-Caprice, Op. 6
    Duration
    04:44
    Composer
    Fritz Kreisler
    Performer
    Nikolaj Znaider
  8. 8 Hebrew Melody, Op. 33 (version for violin and piano) 06:25
    Track
    8
    Title
    Hebrew Melody, Op. 33 (version for violin and piano)
    Duration
    06:25
    Composer
    Joseph Achron
    Performer
    Nikolaj Znaider, Daniel Gortler
  9. 9 Estrellita (arr. J. Heifetz for violin and piano) 03:25
    Track
    9
    Title
    Estrellita (arr. J. Heifetz for violin and piano)
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Manuel María Ponce
    Performer
    Nikolaj Znaider, Daniel Gortler
  10. 10 Theme original varie, Op. 15 12:05
    Track
    10
    Title
    Theme original varie, Op. 15
    Duration
    12:05
    Composer
    Henryk Wieniawski
    Performer
    Nikolaj Znaider, Daniel Gortler