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Volume 7 - Music for Violin and Piano

Movses Pogossian

Volume 7 - Music for Violin and Piano

Format: CD
Label: Bridge
UPC: 0090404945229
Catnr: BRIDG 9452
Release date: 04 March 2016
1 CD
 
Label
Bridge
UPC
0090404945229
Catalogue number
BRIDG 9452
Release date
04 March 2016
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About the album

As a child Stefan Wolpe studied the violin and the piano, and by his teens he wished to become a concert pianist and composer. His life transformed when, at the age of 18, he visited the Bauhaus at Weimar and sat in on the Preliminary Course of the painter and progressive educator Johannes Itten. Throughout his life Wolpe maintained that art has the power to transform the individual and society. This remarkable collection of Wolpe's music for violin(s) and piano includes several premiere recordings (the spectacular op. 2 Duo for two violins, the two studies of 1933, and the fragment of a second violin sonata). In addition it includes Wolpe's two late violin solos, and his magnificent and epic 1949 Sonata for Violin and Piano. The featured violinist on all the works is the Armenian/American virtuoso, Movses Pogossian.
Stefan Wolpes künstlerisches Schaffen wurde durch einen Besuch des Bauhaus in Weimar im Alter von 18 stark geprägt. Diese Zusammenstellung seiner Kompositionen für Violine und Klavier enthält einige Weltersteinspielungen.

Artist(s)

Movses Pogossian (violin)

Armenian-born violinist Movses Pogossian made his American debut performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall in 1990, about which Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe wrote: “There is freedom in his playing, but also taste and discipline. It was a fiery, centered, and highly musical performance...” Movses Pogossian has since performed with orchestras such as the Brandenburger Symphoniker and the Halle Philharmonic in Germany, the Sudety Philharmonic in Poland, the Tuscon Symphony, the El Paso Symphony, the Scandinavian Chamber Orchestra of New York, and the Toronto Sinfonia. His recent and upcoming performances include recitals in New York, Boston, Ann Arbor, and concerts in Korea, Japan, Germany, Armenia, and Cyprus. He is a Prizewinner of the 1986...
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Armenian-born violinist Movses Pogossian made his American debut performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall in 1990, about which Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe wrote: “There is freedom in his playing, but also taste and discipline. It was a fiery, centered, and highly musical performance...” Movses Pogossian has since performed with orchestras such as the Brandenburger Symphoniker and the Halle Philharmonic in Germany, the Sudety Philharmonic in Poland, the Tuscon Symphony, the El Paso Symphony, the Scandinavian Chamber Orchestra of New York, and the Toronto Sinfonia. His recent and upcoming performances include recitals in New York, Boston, Ann Arbor, and concerts in Korea, Japan, Germany, Armenia, and Cyprus. He is a Prizewinner of the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Competition, and the youngest-ever First Prize winner of the 1985 USSR National Violin Competition, previous winners of which included David Oistrakh and Gidon Kremer. An active chamber musician, Mr. Pogossian has performed with members of the Tokyo, Kronos, and Brentano string quartets, and with such artists as Kim Kashkashian, Jeremy Denk, Lynn Harrell, Ani and Ida Kavafian, and Rohan de Saram. He frequently collaborates with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, teaching annually at their summer music festival in New Hampshire. Movses Pogossian is the Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Dilijan Chamber Music Series, which performs at Zipper Hall in downtown Los Angeles, and is currently in its ninth season (http://dilijan. larkmusicalsociety.com). Since earning his advanced degrees from the Komitas Conservatory in Armenia and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in Moscow, Mr. Pogossian has held teaching positions at Duquesne, Bowling Green, Wayne State, and SUNY Buffalo Universities. His principal teachers were L. Zorian, V. Mokatsian, V. Klimov, and legendary Louis Krasner. Movses Pogossian is currently Professor of Violin at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He resides in Glendale, California with his wife, Los Angeles Philharmonic violinist Varty Manouelian, and their three children.

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Susan Grace (piano)

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01.
Second Piece for Violin Alone
03:14
(Stefan Wolpe) Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace, Varty Manouelian
02.
Duo for Two Violins, op. 2: I. Allegro molto
07:52
(Stefan Wolpe) Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace, Varty Manouelian
03.
Duo for Two Violins, op. 2: II. Presto (Besessen)
03:00
(Stefan Wolpe) Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace, Varty Manouelian
04.
Duo for Two Violins, op. 2: III. Quarter note = 112
02:44
(Stefan Wolpe) Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace, Varty Manouelian
05.
Two Studies for Two Violins and Piano: I. Overture
02:00
(Stefan Wolpe) Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace, Varty Manouelian
06.
Two Studies for Two Violins and Piano: II. Pastoral in the Form of a Passacaglia
03:48
(Stefan Wolpe) Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace, Varty Manouelian
07.
Sonata for Violin and Piano: I. Un poco allegro
06:29
(Stefan Wolpe) Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace, Varty Manouelian
08.
Sonata for Violin and Piano: II. Andante appassionato
08:37
(Stefan Wolpe) Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace, Varty Manouelian
09.
Sonata for Violin and Piano: III. Lento
03:33
(Stefan Wolpe) Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace, Varty Manouelian
10.
Sonata for Violin and Piano: IV. Allegretto deciso
10:09
(Stefan Wolpe) Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace, Varty Manouelian
11.
Second Sonata for Violin and Piano (fragment)
01:30
(Stefan Wolpe) Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace, Varty Manouelian
12.
Piece in Two Parts for Violin Alone: I. Quarter note = 80
08:37
(Stefan Wolpe) Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace, Varty Manouelian
13.
Piece in Two Parts for Violin Alone: II. Half note = ca. 112
06:19
(Stefan Wolpe) Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace, Varty Manouelian
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