Lekeu: Violin Sonata / Chausson: Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet

Featuring

Elmar Oliveira
Robert Koenig
Regis Iandiorio
Abraham Appleman
Sandra Robbins
Maxine Neuman

Vista Nuova Ensemble
Guillaume Lekeu
Ernest Chausson

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Composer Biography

Guillaume Lekeu, a Belgian composer, died at the age of 24 from typhoid fever after eating contaminated sherbet.

Performer Biography

Elmar Oliveira, the violinist on this recording, is the first and only American violinist to win the Gold Medal at Moscow's Tchaikovsky International Competition.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Guillaume Lekeu, a Belgian composer, believed the artist's creative quest was to master the plenitude of different shades of feeling, and his music reflects the close relation between beauty and sorrow.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded on August 30, 1995, at SUNY Purchase, New York, with Eric Wen as producer and Da-Hong Seetoo as recording engineer.

Composer Biography

Ernest Chausson, a French composer, came from a wealthy family and was multi-talented, taking a law degree and being a gifted painter.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Ernest Chausson's music was influenced by the Symbolisme movement, the mystical chromaticism of César Franck (a French composer and organist), and a love-hate relationship with Richard Wagner (a German composer).

Performer Biography

Elmar Oliveira, the violinist on this recording, performs exclusively on a 1729-30 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu violin known as the 'Stretton', and an exact copy of it.