Soli: Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Solo Works for Violin
Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
The opening of the Bartok Sonata is powerful and arresting, and there's passion and musical imagination throughout, the fiendish multiple stops and alternations between bowed and plucked notes...
Soli: Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Solo Works for Violin
Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
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The opening of the Bartok Sonata is powerful and arresting, and there's passion and musical imagination throughout, the fiendish multiple stops and alternations between bowed and plucked notes...
About
Tamsin Waley-Cohen, a violinist of "fearless intensity" (The Guardian), explores post-1944 solo repertoire, pushing the instrument to its limits. Bartók’s Solo Sonata, an ‘Everest’ of the violin repertoire, sits at the heart of this recording which also includes Penderecki’s 'Cadenza', and miniatures by Carter, György Kurtág and George Benjamin.
Contents and tracklist
Work length33:55
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I. Tempo di ciaccona
Track length14:11
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Work length10:04
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Awards and reviews
September 2015
The opening of the Bartok Sonata is powerful and arresting, and there's passion and musical imagination throughout, the fiendish multiple stops and alternations between bowed and plucked notes assured in tone and precise in intonation.
July 2015
The programme provides a fascinating survey of solo violin music of the last 25 years and her playing, often forceful and uncompromising...carries real conviction. The more delicate pieces, for instance the lovely Benjamin 'Lauer Lied', are just as persuasive.
24th May 2015
Seventy-seven minutes of unaccompanied violin, and strenuous modern repertory at that, may make this disc a daunting prospect, but Waley-Cohen’s devotion to her cause is palpable, and her interpretative flair likewise.
Classical Music June 2015
It’s brave for a young artist to settle on a seemingly hard-core programme of solo repertoire, but it’s a measure of Waley-Cohen’s commitment and energy (not to mention prodigious technique) that it succeeds utterly.
