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Vieuxtemps: Works for Solo Violin

Reto Kuppel (violin)

Vieuxtemps: Works for Solo Violin
This CD can be warmly recommended to those who love to hear virtuoso violin playing of the highest order…the technical demands are mindboggling. The Six Morceaux are well worth the price of...

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Vieuxtemps: Works for Solo Violin

Reto Kuppel (violin)

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This CD can be warmly recommended to those who love to hear virtuoso violin playing of the highest order…the technical demands are mindboggling. The Six Morceaux are well worth the price of...

MusicWeb International, May 2017

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Henry Vieuxtemps was a violin prodigy who became a towering figure in a line of violinist-composers that stretches from Viotti to Ysaÿe, and whose playing led to Schumann’s statement that he “holds us in a kind of magic circle”.

Influenced in part by Paganini, Vieuxtemps’s solo works demand the full arsenal of virtuoso techniques from lightning speed to the purest singing tone. The Etudes Op.48 include a piece subtitled ‘Torment’, while the Six Morceaux represent the composer’s homage to Bach in their polyphonic style.

  • Release date: 30th Oct 2015
  • Label: Naxos
  • Catalogue number: 8573339
  • Length: 73 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Excerpt,Vieuxtemps: Études (36) for Violin, Op. 48
Work length16:27
  • Reto Kuppel (violin)
  • Recorded: 1 March 2014
  • Recording Venue: Bethanienkirche, Leipzig, Germany
No. 6. Erzahlung (Story): Allegretto moderato
Track length3:13
No. 7. Qual (Torment): Agitato
Track length2:11
No. 25. Tarantella: Vivace
Track length2:12
No. 27. Agitato
Track length1:47
No. 28. Moderato
Track length3:14
No. 32. Variations on the Gavotte of Corelli: Moderato
Track length3:50
Vieuxtemps: Morceaux (6), Op. 55
Work length28:04
  • Reto Kuppel (violin)
  • Recorded: 7 April 2014
  • Recording Venue: Bethanienkirche, Leipzig, Germany
No. 1. Andante
Track length3:42
No. 2. Moderato
Track length3:29
No. 3. Prelude
Track length4:14
No. 4. Tempo di minuetto
Track length2:56
No. 5. Andante
Track length4:13
No. 6. Introduction et Fugue
Track length9:30
Vieuxtemps: 3 Morceaux de salon, Op. 32
Work length7:49
  • Reto Kuppel (violin)
  • Recorded: 24 July 2014
  • Recording Venue: Bethanienkirche, Leipzig, Germany
3 Morceaux de salon, Op. 32: No. 3. La Chasse (version for violin solo)
Track length7:49
Vieuxtemps: Études de concert (6), Op. 16
Work length21:37
  • Reto Kuppel (violin)
  • Recorded: 24 July 2014
  • Recording Venue: Bethanienkirche, Leipzig, Germany
No. 1. Allegro moderato
Track length5:01
No. 2. Moderato - Grazioso
Track length2:35
No. 3. Allegretto
Track length2:48
No. 4. Allegro ma non troppo
Track length2:52
No. 5. Adagio non troppo
Track length2:20
No. 6. Adagio - Allegretto
Track length6:01

Awards and reviews

May 2017

This CD can be warmly recommended to those who love to hear virtuoso violin playing of the highest order…the technical demands are mindboggling. The Six Morceaux are well worth the price of the disc alone. Reto Kuppel is a magnificent player with a fearless approach and fine tone. I can’t imagine hearing finer performances than this.
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