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Works for Violin & Piano
George Enescu

Daniel Rowland | Natacha Kudritskaya

Works for Violin & Piano

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Champs Hill
UPC: 5060212591234
Catnr: CHRCD 120
Release date: 07 July 2017
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Champs Hill
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5060212591234
Catalogue number
CHRCD 120
Release date
07 July 2017

"More than nice music"

Noordhollands Dagblad, 17-8-2017
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About the album

George Enescu (1881-1955) is today most widely celebrated as one of the world’s greatest violinists of his generation, a fine conductor and by far the most significant composer of his native Romania. Certainly many great musicians who knew him – including his pupils and protégés Yehudi Menuhin, Arthur Grumiaux and Ivry Gitlis, and colleagues such as Alfred Cortot – held him in the highest esteem. Yet even today his music, apart from his exuberant Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 for orchestra (1901), is scarcely known by the wider public. His one major opera, Oedipe (1921-32), though recorded and since accorded increased respect, remains rarely staged; and his extensive work for solo violin (though – perhaps significantly – not including a concerto) is only beginning to catch the attention of a new generation of soloists.
Vioolwerken van George Enescu verfijnd uitgevoerd door Daniel Rowland en Natacha Kudritskaya

George Enescu (1881-1955) was wereldwijd een van de grootste violisten van zijn generatie, een goede dirigent en een van de belangrijkste componisten van zijn geboorteland Roemenië. Veel vooraanstaande musici die hem kenden - waaronder zijn leerlingen en protégés Yehudi Menuhin, Arthur Grumiaux en Ivry Gitlis, en collega's als Alfred Cortot - droegen hem op handen. Maar vandaag de dag is zijn muziek, behalve zijn uitbundige Roemeense Rapsodie Nr. 1 voor orkest, nauwelijks bekend bij het bredere publiek. Zijn grote opera Oedipe is opgenomen en sindsdien heeft het meer erkenning gekregen, maar het wordt nauwelijks uitgevoerd op het podium. Zijn uitgebreide repertoire voor solo viool begint nu eindelijk de aandacht van een nieuwe generatie solisten te trekken.
Op dit album voeren violist Daniel Rowland en pianiste Natacha Kudritskaya drie van Enescu's werken uit die het brede scala van Enescu's muzikale taal tonen. De diepzinnige, romantische tweede sonate is onmiskenbaar de jonge Enescu. Het is muziek die overstroomt met emoties, passie en tederheid. De derde sonate 'In de populaire Roemeense stijl' is zijn bekendste kamermuziekwerk. Het stuk roept alle elementen van zigeunermuziek op, op een zeer verfijnde manier. Impressions d'enfance, Op. 28 is een uniek en aangrijpend werk; het zijn de herinneringen van een oudere man. Hij beschrijft zijn jeugd in een afgelegen Roemeens dorp. Het is in wezen een dag in het leven van dit kind: de straatmusici, de enigszins enge bedelaar, het beekje in de tuin, vogelzang. Dan is het tijd om te slapen, en nadat zijn moeder een slaapliedje heeft gezongen en de maan achter de gordijnen schijnt, komt er een enorme storm op: 'Le vent dans la cheminée'. De zonsopkomst hierna is een magisch moment van grote schoonheid en bouwt op tot een glorieus hoogtepunt.

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Daniel Rowland (violin)

Dutch/English violinist Daniel Rowland’s playing has been acclaimed as ‘wonderful, ravishing in its finesse’ by The Guardian and as ‘both naked and highly virtuosic’ by NRC Handelsblad, while The Herald praised his ‘astonishing sound and uniquely single-minded intensity’.  Daniel has established himself on the international scene as a highly versatile, communicative, charismatic and adventurous performer, with a broad repertoire from Vivaldi to Van der Aa. In recent seasons Daniel has performed with concertos ranging from Beethoven to Brahms, Elgar, Berg, Korngold, Weinberg and Prokofiev, with conductors such as Heinz Holliger, Jaap van Zweden, François-Xavier Roth, Lawrence Foster, Antony Hermus and Rossen Milanov. He is a passionate advocate of contemporary concertos such as Vasks, Lindberg, Glass, Saariaho, Nisinman and Van der Aa....
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Dutch/English violinist Daniel Rowland’s playing has been acclaimed as ‘wonderful, ravishing in its finesse’ by The Guardian and as ‘both naked and highly virtuosic’ by NRC Handelsblad, while The Herald praised his ‘astonishing sound and uniquely single-minded intensity’.

Daniel has established himself on the international scene as a highly versatile, communicative, charismatic and adventurous performer, with a broad repertoire from Vivaldi to Van der Aa. In recent seasons Daniel has performed with concertos ranging from Beethoven to Brahms, Elgar, Berg, Korngold, Weinberg and Prokofiev, with conductors such as Heinz Holliger, Jaap van Zweden, François-Xavier Roth, Lawrence Foster, Antony Hermus and Rossen Milanov. He is a passionate advocate of contemporary concertos such as Vasks, Lindberg, Glass, Saariaho, Nisinman and Van der Aa. Recently he premiered Isidora Zebeljan‘s Violin Concerto ‘Three Curious Loves’ and this autumn sees the premiere of Roxanna Panufnik‘s ‘Songs of Love and Friendship’ with the Dutch Radio Choir at the Concertgebouw. September 2020 sees the release of ‘Distant Light’, with violin concertos by Peteris Vasks (Challenge Records).

A passionate chamber musician, Daniel has performed with artists as diverse as Ivry Gitlis, Heinz Holliger, Martha Argerich, Michael Collins, Lars Vogt, Giovanni Sollima, Marcelo Nisinman, Willard White and Elvis Costello. Daniel is one half of acclaimed duo partnerships with pianist Natacha Kudritskaya with whom he earlier recorded for Champs Hill Records a disc dedicated to the Enescu Sonatas (‘a perfect partnership’ – BBC Music Magazine), and with cellist Maja Bogdanovic, whose recent duo CD ‘Pas de deux’ (Challenge Records) was described as ‘a magical meeting between violin and cello’ by Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad. In 2005 Daniel founded the Stift International Music Festival in the bucolic region of Twente in the eastern Netherlands, where he grew up, with the 15th century Stiftkerk as the main venue. The festival has garnered acclaim as one of great intimacy, adventure and atmosphere. Daniel was for twelve years the leader of the Brodsky Quartet, performing all over the world, and making numerous recordings, including the celebrated Shostakowitch Cycle.

Daniel was born in London, and started his violin lessons in Enschede after his parents moved to Twente in the eastern Netherlands. He studied with Jan Repko, Davina van Wely, Herman Krebbers, Viktor Liberman, Igor Oistrakh and Ivry Gitlis. His violin is by Lorenzo Storioni (Cremona 1796), and his bow is a Maline, kindly loaned by the Dutch Instrument Foundation. He teaches at the Royal College of Music in London. He lives in Amsterdam with his partner, cellist Maja Bogdanovic´.


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Natacha Kudritskaya (piano)

Young Natacha first stepped into the classical music world as a student of the Lysenko Music School in Kiev, where she completed her training at the age of seventeen. After these formative years, she was part of three tours across the USA between 1996 and 2002 with the Kiev Symphony Orchestra; her very first experience as a concert musician.  She soon after entered the Tchaïkovski National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kiev where she followed the teachings of Irina Barinova and Igor Riabov and applied for the competitive CNSM in Paris at the age of nineteen. She studied simultaneously in both these institutions and graduated with the highest distinctions and honours of the jury.  Four personalities have left their imprint on Natacha’s...
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Young Natacha first stepped into the classical music world as a student of the Lysenko Music School in Kiev, where she completed her training at the age of seventeen. After these formative years, she was part of three tours across the USA between 1996 and 2002 with the Kiev Symphony Orchestra; her very first experience as a concert musician.

She soon after entered the Tchaïkovski National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kiev where she followed the teachings of Irina Barinova and Igor Riabov and applied for the competitive CNSM in Paris at the age of nineteen. She studied simultaneously in both these institutions and graduated with the highest distinctions and honours of the jury.

Four personalities have left their imprint on Natacha’s pianistic technique. First, Alain Planès, ‘my first professor, simply the representation of elegance, possessed a sheer sophisticated style’. Then came Jacques Rouvier, ‘very attached to the text, a rigorous and meticulous personality’. Her encounter with Ferenc Rados in Budapest, later on, was crucial: ‘he taught me how to read in between the notes’ and, finally, Henri Barda ‘felt like a hurricane devastating my whole work and training, for there to reign only the power of music’.

Rameau’s work marked a turning point in her approach of pianistic technique and she dedicated two albums to this composer: first in 2009, in association with Luciano Berio, and then in 2012, with the label 1001 Notes.

The year 2009 was marked by competitions, before a time spent refining her technique, her first recitals and an encounter with chamber music to which she has regularly returned. It was also the year she was invited to perform in the most prominent festivals and concert halls across France and Europe.

Since 2015 Natacha Kudritskaya has been part of the Universal Music catalogue.


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More than nice music
Noordhollands Dagblad, 17-8-2017

The duo Daniel Rowland / Natacha Kudritskaya performs the compositions with energetic precision. The implementation is very accurate.
Music Frames, 20-7-2017

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