Bela Bartok Bartok & Strauss: Violin Sonatas (CD)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Bartok & Strauss: Violin SonatasCondition: NewFormat: CDDescription: EDITORIAL REVIEWS The violin sonata op. 18 (1887) was the last piece of chamber music that Strauss wrote, and it is definitely the finest and most popular of these early works. Strauss valued the Sonata very highly, performing it himself well into the 1930s. Written just one year before the symphonic poem Don Juan, the violin sonata, while based on a traditional sonata model, unfolds new expressive characteristics of future operas and symphonic poems. The Sonata for Violin and Piano was composed in 1903 and premiered in Budapest on January 25, 1904 by Bartok and Hungarian violinist Jeno Hubay. At the time Bartok was studying piano at the Budapest Academy with Istvan Thomas, a pupil of Liszt, and composition with Janos Koessler. Another important musical influence on young Bartok was Richard Strauss, whom he met at the Budapest performance of Strauss' works in 1902. Since the Sonata was written before Bartok’s collaboration with Zoltan Kodaly in collection, arrangement, and study of folk music, the work bears little resemblance to Bartok’s mature style. Influences of Liszt and Strauss are clearly heard throughout the piece. ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Moscow in 1955, Levon Ambartsumian began to study violin at the age of three. He then enrolled in and graduated from the Central Music School. Five years later, Ambartsumian graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with a special Artist Diploma, where his teachers wre Felix Andrievski, Yury Yankelevitch, Leonid Kogan and Igor Bezrodny. In 1977 he became the First Prize winner of Zagreb International Violin Competition headed by Henryk Szeryng. Two years later he was a prize winner of the Montreal International Competition, and in 1981 he won the All-Union Violin Competition in Riga. Levon Ambartsumian was distinguished as Honored Artist of Armenia and 1988 and Honored Artist of Russia in 1997. Since 1977 Ambartsumian has performed regularly in all the main cities of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Since 1978 Amabartsumian has taught at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He also taught as Visiting Professor at Indiana University School of Music (Bloomington, Indiana). In 1995, Ambartsumian accepted the position of Franklin Professor of Violin at the University of Georgia School of Music (Athens, Georgia).Genre: ClassicalArtist: Bela BartokNo Of Discs: 1Record Label: PHOENIX/USEAN: 0094629316628 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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