Eugène Ysaÿe, a composer on this album, was a virtuoso violinist who studied with Henryk Wieniawski and Henri Vieuxtemps and became an international star in the 1880s.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Paul Hindemith, a composer featured on this album, believed that the art of composition should be purified and liberated from external influences and emotional exaggeration.
Compositional Technique
Paul Hindemith's musical style, representing 'new objectivity', developed melodic polyphony and linear counterpoint, dissolving major-minor tonality into diatonic polymodality.
Historical Context
The genre of sonatas for solo violin, which reached its peak with J.S. Bach's works, was largely neglected until the 20th century.
Composition History
Ilya Gringolts's Sonata Bachiana, featured on this CD, was composed in 1997 and inspired by Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin.
Composer Biography
Alfred Schnittke, a composer on this album, transitioned from strict serial compositional principles to free 'neo-Romantic' expressions in his music.
Performer Biography
Ilya Gringolts, the violinist on this album, won the XLV Premio Paganini in Genoa in 1998, along with two special prizes.
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