Ksenia Milas, violin
Eugène Ysaÿe's set of Six Sonatas for solo violin, Op. 27, was written in July 1923. Each sonata was dedicated to one of Ysaÿe’s contemporary violinists. This sonata is dedicated to George Enescu. All six sonatas are very difficult.
1a. Lento molto sostenuto 0:00
1b. Allegro in tempo giusto e con bravura 2:19
During the 20th century, this sonata was the most often played out of the six sonatas, and it still remains one of Ysaÿe’s most popular works. The sonata is a single movement written in two sections.
The first section, marked Lento molto sostenuto, is a slow introduction in the manner of a recitative, which hints at some of the motifs to be heard later in the piece. It makes use of the whole tone scale, as well as many disjunct melodic leaps, and a large amount of dissonance and chromaticism.
The introduction leads directly into the main section of the piece, marked Allegro in tempo giusto e con bravura. It is in 3/8 meter, and is characterised by agitated dotted rhythms, as well as many double and triple stops. After a calmer middle section with rapid legato triplet passages, the dotted rhythm theme returns. The piece ends with a brilliant coda of very fast demisemiquaver passages.
Score in the public domain. Recording by Ksenia Milas published by ANIMA Records and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Information from Wikipedia, under the 3.0 version of said license, taken from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Son...) and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_...)
8 авг 2024
