Artist: Antje Weithaas
Album: Bach & Ysaÿe Vol. 1
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2014
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 01:15:55
Total Tracks: 17
Total Size: 773 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Antje Weithaas – Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Violin Solo, BWV 1001: I. Adagio (04:01)
1-02. Antje Weithaas – Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Violin Solo, BWV 1001: II. Fuga (05:36)
1-03. Antje Weithaas – Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Violin Solo, BWV 1001: III. Siciliana (02:48)
1-04. Antje Weithaas – Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Violin Solo, BWV 1001: IV. Presto (03:21)
1-05. Antje Weithaas – Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Violin Solo, Op. 27: I. Grave – Lento assai (05:01)
1-06. Antje Weithaas – Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Violin Solo, Op. 27: II. Fugato – Molto moderato (05:19)
1-07. Antje Weithaas – Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Violin Solo, Op. 27: III. Allegretto – poco scherzoso aimabile (04:10)
1-08. Antje Weithaas – Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Violin Solo, Op. 27: IV. Finale con brio – Allegro fermo (03:15)
1-09. Antje Weithaas – Sonata No. 2 in A Minor for Violin Solo, Op. 27: I. Prélude ‘Obsession’. poco vivace (02:48)
1-10. Antje Weithaas – Sonata No. 2 in A Minor for Violin Solo, Op. 27: II. Malinconia. Poco lento (03:03)
1-11. Antje Weithaas – Sonata No. 2 in A Minor for Violin Solo, Op. 27: III. Sarabande ‘Danse des ombres’. Lento (04:04)
1-12. Antje Weithaas – Sonata No. 2 in A Minor for Violin Solo, Op. 27: IV. Les Furies – Allegro furiose (02:57)
1-13. Antje Weithaas – Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 : I. Allemanda (04:33)
1-14. Antje Weithaas – Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 : II. Corrente (02:36)
1-15. Antje Weithaas – Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 : III. Sarabanda (04:06)
1-16. Antje Weithaas – Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 : IV. Giga (03:56)
1-17. Antje Weithaas – Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 : V. Ciacconna (14:15)

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Antje Weithaas launches her trilogy of solo violin albums with the first work in each cycle. It was Antje Weithaas’s own idea to jointly record Johann Sebastian Bach’s six sonatas and partitas for solo violin in conjunction with Eugène Ysaÿe’s six solo violin sonatas. “The works by Bach are rather well-known”, she remarks. “But Ysaÿe is invariably shoved into the virtuoso corner, but as a composer he is to be taken quite seriously!”.Eugène Ysaÿe‘s son remembers that his father started composing the solo violin sonatas when he heard Joseph Szigeti, a violinist younger than himself, play Bach in Brussels in 1923. Antje Weithaas sees many parallels with Bach’s Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin, BWV 1001: “The works have similar structures.”

“Both composers wrote technically challenging pieces featuring double stops and ornamental figurations. Although there is no proof for such connections, I’m quite certain that Ysaÿe had them in mind.” The fugues, in each case, represent quite a challenge. Each composer demands double and multiple stops from an instrument normally designed to play one part at a time. “The notes are written directly on top of one another, as the composer must have imagined them in his head, but not in the way they are to be executed. Since the performance tradition has not survived, we can only make guesses.”

“Antje Weithaas is one of the great violinists of our time.” (FonoForum)