French Impressions - Joshua Bell, Jeremy Denk (2012)
French Impressions - Joshua Bell, Jeremy Denk (2012)
EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 290 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony | Catalog Number: 82026
EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 290 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony | Catalog Number: 82026
French Impressions, Joshua Bell's first recital program for Sony Classical features the Grammy Award-winning violinist and his longtime friend and recital partner, pianist Jeremy Denk, offering a passionately nuanced interpretation of works by Saint-Saens, Ravel and Franck.
When Bell and Denk performed Saint-Saens Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor during their 2010 recital tour, the New York Times raved "Mr. Bell and Mr. Denk gave a passionate performanceThere were plenty of fireworks in the whirlwind of the concluding movement."
Says Bell, "French Impressions is the culmination of my last decade of exploration and performance with pianist Jeremy Denk, and I hope that with this recording we can affect the listener with the same joy and spiritual enrichment that these masterpieces have provided us over the years."
Repertoire: Bell's first recording of Cesar Franck's Violin Sonata in A Major allows Bell to pay homage, through his mentor Josef Gingold, to the two great artists who created this undying masterpiece. It was written 125 years ago, at the height of the French Belle Epoque, for the wedding of Franck's friend, the virtuoso Eugene Ysaye (with whom Gingold studied). In his music, Franck captured everything about the time: life, love, passion. While the Franck piece has the biggest reputation, the Saint-Saens remains one of the most exciting sonatas in the repertoire, richly sensual within a formal scheme that Beethoven would recognize. The feverish finale is guaranteed to bring the house down. Ravel's more fantastic sonata, by turns ethereal, earthy, abstract and sensual, offers a kaleidoscope of different thrills. Produced by multiple Grammy Award-winner Steven Epstein.
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns, César Franck, Maurice Ravel
Performer: Joshua Bell, Jeremy Denk
Reviews: This is Joshua Bell's first album of sonatas since he left Decca for Sony in the late nineties. For it, the forty-five-year-old violin star teamed with up-and-coming pianist Jeremy Denk, a fellow Indiana University alum. Their rapport is revealed in the refinement of their interpretations, which aim to evoke what Denk's liner notes say "makes French music French: sounds that hover.. harmony like perfume evaporating into air." The opening of Franck's A major Sonata is more perfumed and decoratively old-school in Bell's hands than in those of young label mate Ray Chen, whose recording features lighter vibrato and a bigger tone. As for which is most authentic, Chen's bracing air or Bell's hothouse atmospherics, Bell can boast of a direct line to the Franck sonata, having studied with Josef Gingold – who studied with violinist Eugène Ysaÿe, for whom Franck wrote the piece as a wedding present. With his experience in Gershwin, Bell also has a feel for the Jazz Age glitter and grit of Ravel's Violin Sonata. Bell and Denk do right, too, by enlivening Saint-Saëns's rarely recorded Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor.
Tracklisting:
1. Sonata for Violin and Piano no 1 in D minor, Op. 75 by Camille Saint-Saëns
Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin), Jeremy Denk (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1885; France
2. Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, M 8 by César Franck
Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin), Jeremy Denk (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1886; France
3. Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major by Maurice Ravel
Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin), Jeremy Denk (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1923-1927; France
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