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Ysaye: Six Sonatas For Solo Violin / Kerson Leong
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Ysaye: Six Sonatas For Solo Violin / Kerson Leong

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Composer
YSAYE, EUGENE
Artist
Kerson Leong
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Feb 12, 2021
Catalog #
ALPHA455
UPC
3760014194559

About

Kerson Leong recently participated in the award-winning Tribute to Ysaye (FUG758). Here is his first solo recital for Alpha. The young Canadian violinist’s career began at the age of thirteen when he won the New Talent Award at the 2010 Menuhin Competition in Oslo. In 2018 he was named artist-in-residence with the Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal, conducted by Yannick Nezet- Seguin. An associate musician at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, under the mentorship of Augustin Dumay, he has already performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Verbier Festival and Wigmore Hall. The Quebec newspaper Le Devoir, which has followed him since the start of his career, speaks of ‘the purity of intonation, the brilliance of the high notes, the power of the sound... Kerson Leong has remained as brilliant as ever, but he has added a new patina and, deep down inside himself, a new class.’ He plays a superb Guarneri del Gesu of 1741, on loan from a Canadian patron. Here he tackles a monument of the violin repertory, the Sonatas for solo violin of Eugene Ysaye: ‘These sonatas are of course a big test . . . The music is highly emotional, pervasive and in some ways also very sombre, which makes it extremely powerful’, says Leong of these six sonatas, which he frequently plays in their entirety in a single concert.

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 I. Grave: Lento assai 05:17
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Grave: Lento assai
    Duration
    05:17
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  2. 2 II. Fugato: Molto moderato 04:48
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Fugato: Molto moderato
    Duration
    04:48
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  3. 3 III. Allegretto poco scherzoso: Amabile 05:22
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegretto poco scherzoso: Amabile
    Duration
    05:22
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  4. 4 IV. Finale con brio: Allegro fermo 02:43
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale con brio: Allegro fermo
    Duration
    02:43
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  5. 5 I. Prelude, "Obsession": Poco vivace 02:42
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Prelude, "Obsession": Poco vivace
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  6. 6 II. Malinconia: Poco Lento 03:02
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Malinconia: Poco Lento
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  7. 7 III. Sarabande: Lento, "Danse des ombres" (Dance of the shades) 04:35
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Sarabande: Lento, "Danse des ombres" (Dance of the shades)
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  8. 8 IV. Les Furies: Allegro furioso 03:24
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Les Furies: Allegro furioso
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  9. 9 Sonata for Solo Violin in D Minor, Op. 27, No. 3, "Ballade" 07:26
    Track
    9
    Title
    Sonata for Solo Violin in D Minor, Op. 27, No. 3, "Ballade"
    Duration
    07:26
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  10. 10 I. Allemanda: Lento maestoso 05:59
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Allemanda: Lento maestoso
    Duration
    05:59
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  11. 11 II. Sarabande: Quasi lento 03:41
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Sarabande: Quasi lento
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  12. 12 III. Finale: Presto ma non troppo 03:11
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Finale: Presto ma non troppo
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  13. 13 I. L'Aurore: Lento assai 04:58
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. L'Aurore: Lento assai
    Duration
    04:58
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  14. 14 II. Danse rustique: Allegro giocoso molto moderato 05:27
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Danse rustique: Allegro giocoso molto moderato
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong
  15. 15 Sonata for Solo Violin in E Major, Op. 27, No. 6 07:38
    Track
    15
    Title
    Sonata for Solo Violin in E Major, Op. 27, No. 6
    Duration
    07:38
    Composer
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Performer
    Kerson Leong