Bartók, Beethoven, Waxman, & Ysaÿe: Works for Violin and Piano

Featuring

Tobias Feldmann
Boris Kusnezow
Eugène Ysaÿe
Ludwig van Beethoven
Béla Bartók
Franz Waxman

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Instruments

Since February 2013, violinist Tobias Feldmann has performed on a 1703 Antonio Stradivari violin from Cremona, owned by the Federal Republic of Germany.

Performer Biography

Tobias Feldmann, the violinist on this album, began his advanced music studies at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg at the age of eight.

Compositional Technique

In his Sonata for Violin solo, Béla Bartók indicates that quartertones should be played, and this recording features the Bartók sound with his natural quarter-tones.

Composition History

Béla Bartók's Sonata for Violin solo Sz. 117, which pays homage to Bach, was commissioned by violinist Yehudi Menuhin in 1943 after Menuhin performed Bach's C major solo sonata.

Recording & Production

This album is a co-production with the Deutscher Musikrat Projekt gGmbH and was recorded in May 2013 at the Jesus-Christus-Kirche Dahlem in Berlin, Germany.