Vadim Gluzman,Violine (CD)

With works by: Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) , Arvo Pärt (geb. 1935) , Peteris Vasks (geb. 1946) , Giya Kancheli (1935-2019)

Contributors: Vadim Gluzman, Angela Yoffe

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Schnittke: Suite in the Old Style für Violine & Klavier; Fuge für Violine solo
+Pärt: Fratres für Violine & Klavier; Spiegel im Spiegel für Violine & Klavier
+Vasks: Little Summer Music für Violine & Klavier
+Kancheli: Time...and again für Violine & Klavier

Artists:: Vadim Gluzman (Violine),Angela Yoffe (Klavier)
Label:: BIS
Year of recording ca.:: 2002
Item number:: 4174084
UPC/EAN:: 7318590013922
Release date:: 28.4.2004

Husband-and-wife duo Vadim Gluzman and Angela Yoffe made their first recording for BIS last year, with young Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach’s Preludes on BIS-CD-1242. Both the music and the musicians were roundly praised, for instance on the Classics Today web-site: ‘Vadim Gluzman and Angela Yoffe push their collective virtuosity sky-high. Enthusiastically recommended.’

Now the two are back with a programme which gives a fascinating insight into the developments and currents of music in Eastern and North-eastern Europe during the last few decades. One of the featured composers, Giya Kancheli, has said the following: ‘I feel as close to the composers before Bach as to those of the twentieth century’, and chances are that the rest of the composers represented on this disc would agree with him. In a way they are all representatives of trends deviating from the modernistic fast track of continuous development and complexity: tonal traditions advocating a contemplative approach to music listening. The only composer in the programme who is no longer alive is the Russian Alfred Schnittke, whose Suite in the Old Style is a perfect pastiche in the style of Grieg’s From Holberg’s Time. Other works are Arvo Pärt’s Fratres and Spiegel im Spiegel, two classics of the late 20th century. Pärt’s fellow Balt, Latvian composer Peteris Vasks has contributed Little Summer Music from 1985 - a charming suite of short movements some of which are reminiscent of rhythmical folk-dances. And rounding off the programme is Giya Kancheli’s Time … and again of which the composer himself has said: ‘I understand this work as a farewell to a particular period of my life, which was filled with fractious thoughts, irreplaceable losses and new feelings I had never before experienced.’