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Artist:
Vilde Frang

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
54:45

Record Label:
Warner Classics

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, iTunes

Release Date
November 17, 2017

Find out more about this album release after the jump.

Product Description: Vilde Frang’s Encores is more than a captivating programme of short pieces for violin and piano, it is also a homage to the players of the Golden Age of the Violin, such as Fritz Kreisler, Leopold Auer and Joseph Szigeti. The recital includes music originally conceived not just for the violin, but also for piano, orchestra or voice, and proves once again, as BBC Music Magazine wrote, that “Frang has the knack of breathing life into every note, whether by variations in phrasing, attack, tone or dynamic.” Vilde Frang has conceived the album as something of a homage to her illustrious predecessors. Born in 1986, she is clearly very much a violinist of today, and – as a Norwegian trained in Germany – she did not grow up in the Central and Eastern-European tradition of Heifetz, Kreisler, Auer and Szigeti. That being said, she brings her own, distinctively captivating magic to her instrument. As Gramophone wrote of her performance of the Korngold concerto, a work that has its roots in the composer’s glorious late-Romantic scores for Hollywood: “Frang has a winning way with the rubato that makes the melodies yearn and smile, but there’s a fragile thread of silver woven through her passagework that bounces off the glinting accompaniment of the Frankfurt RSO as an opalescent gown catches the light in a mirrored ballroom. Fresh thought illuminates each phrase and she has the technique to bring off every idea, from the wild caprice of the first movement’s dash to the double-bar, to a coquettish (or demure?) restraint in the finale’s big tune.”

TRACK LIST:

1. La capricciosa (2:53)

2. Widmung (From Myrthen, Op. 25) [Arr. Auer] (2:37)

3. Mazurka in G Major, Op. 19 No. 1, "Obertass" (2:16)

4. Mélodie (From Orfeo ed Euricide, Wq. 30) [Arr. Kreisler] (2:57)

5. Ballet Music (From Rosamunde, Op. 26, D. 797) [Arr. Kreisler] (3:30)

6. Tango (3:05)

7. La plus que lente, L. 121: Valse (Arr. Roques) (4:37)

8. Caprice in E-Flat Major (Alla saltarella), Op. 10 No. 10 [Arr. Kreisler] (2:05)

9. Etude in D-Flat Major, Op. 8 No. 10 (Arr. Szigeti) (2:10)

10. Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven (2:41)

11. Gypsy Caprice (5:05)

12. Slavonic Dance in E Minor, Op. 46 No. 2 (Arr. Kreisler) (4:18)

13. Masks (From Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64) [Arr. Heifetz] (2:05)

14. Song without Words, Op. 62 No. 1 (Arr. Kreisler) (2:39)

15. Sevilla (From Suite Española, Op. 47) [Arr. Heifetz] (4:32)

16. Estrellita ( Arr. Heifetz) (3:17)

17. Calabrese, Op. 34 (3:58)

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