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Con Passione: Virtuoso Pieces for the Violin | Naive AM136

Con Passione: Virtuoso Pieces for the Violin

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Label: Naive

Cat No: AM136

Barcode: 0822186001363

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 26th May 2008

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Until Paganini, the technical potential of the violin had been only very partially explored. Virtuosity was merely a resource on which performers and composers drew in order to ornament their works. Paganini sparked off a veritable revolution in the history not only of the violin, but also, in a sense, of composition itself. For his creative, heroic, flamboyant virtuosity was to exert a decisive influence on his contemporaries, and still more on his successors.

If Paganini eclipsed all the other violinists of his day, he also created a tremendous phenomenon of emulation whose legacy would be confirmed after his death by such figures as Ernst, Vieuxtemps, Wieniawski, Sarasate, and Ysa’e. The violin owes him its prestige as an instrument, for without him its repertoire would probably never have known the same abundance or the same development.

Quite apart from the volume of works specifically written for the instrument, illustrious arrangers like Kreisler or Heifetz (to name the two most famous and prolific), Hartmann, Kochański, Tzļganov, Francescatti, Szigeti and many others substantially expanded their repertory by adapting for the violin hundreds of pieces initially intended for the voice, the piano, or even the orchestra.

All the pieces selected for this recital by the young Yossif Ivanov belong to this Paganinian legacy. Born in Antwerp in 1986, Yossif Ivanov won the First Grand Prix at the Montreal International Music Competition (2003) and Second (Eugčne Ysa’e) Prize and Audience Prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Belgium (2005). In January 2006 he received the Midem Classical Award as ‘Outstanding Young Artist’. He made his London debut in April 2007 at the invitation of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Marin Alsop.

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