Johannes Fleischmann - Solitaire [CD]

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Following the critical success that greeted his Odradek debut album Exodus (music by Korngold and Zeisl), violinist Johannes Fleischmann, known as the 'Viennese Violinist', returns in the company of pianist Christoph Ulrich Meier with Solitaire.rr

Solitaire may denote a single set gemstone as well as a single piece in general. This album's programme consists of little-known individual works for violin and piano, all of them musical gems by famous composers, many of whom influenced each other. 'Solitaire' also means 'lonely, alone' and thus coincides with violinist Joseph Joachim's motto 'free but lonely'. Famous violinists who inspired composers are also a common thread running through the programme.rr

We hear sumptuously beautiful and fascinating music from the overlapping worlds of Wagner and his father-in-law Liszt, Zemlinsky and his brother-in-law Schoenberg, and from Zemlinsky's champion Brahms and Brahms's friends and collaborators Robert Schumann and Joachim.rr

More recent composers represented include Estonian composer ArvoPart and Greek composer-conductor Konstantia Gourzi, who has filled in the gaps of Haydn's fragmentary surviving opera Philemon and Baucis with her own compositions, one of which is Aria. This began life in 2003 as a soprano aria but was reworked by Gourzi in 2022 for violin and piano. Rooted in the Greek mythology of Haydn's opera,Aria may be heard as a brief narrative of a dream. Haydn, too, is heard on this album with his witty Jacob's Dream, and Rossini, Reinecke and Ysaye complete the programme.rr

Fleischmann is joined by Christoph Ulrich Meier, who is Musical Supervisor of the Bayreuth Festival and whose performances as conductor and pianist have taken him to the Musikverein Vienna, Berlin Philharmonie, Felsenreitschule Salzburg and the Suntory Hall Tokyo, among others. Fleischmann and Meier have been performing as a duo since 2019.

Joseph Haydn: Jacob's Dream, for violin and piano

Richard Wagner: From Funf Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme (Wesendonck Lieder), WWV 91. No. 5: Traume

Franz Liszt: Die drei Zigeuner (Paraphrase for Violin and Piano), S. 383

Carl Reinecke: Romanze, Op. 3, No. 1

Robert Schumann: From Waldszenen, Op. 82. No. 7: Vogel als Prophet

Joseph Joachim: Romance for Violin and Piano in C Major

Johannes Brahms: Scherzo in C Minor, WoO 2

Johannes Brahms: Albumblatt in A Minor

Alexander von Zemlinsky: Serenade for violin and piano in A Major

Arnold Schoenberg: Piece for violin and piano in D Minor

Eugene Ysaye: From Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27. Sonata No. 5 in G Major. I. L'Aurore

Konstantia Gourzi: Aria for violin and piano, Op. 94

Joseph Haydn: Jacob's Dream, for violin and piano

Richard Wagner: From Funf Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme (Wesendonck Lieder), WWV 91. No. 5: Traume

Franz Liszt: Die drei Zigeuner (Paraphrase for Violin and Piano), S. 383

Carl Reinecke: Romanze, Op. 3, No. 1

Robert Schumann: From Waldszenen, Op. 82. No. 7: Vogel als Prophet

Joseph Joachim: Romance for Violin and Piano in C Major

Johannes Brahms: Scherzo in C Minor, WoO 2

Johannes Brahms: Albumblatt in A Minor

Alexander von Zemlinsky: Serenade for violin and piano in A Major

Arnold Schoenberg: Piece for violin and piano in D Minor

Eugene Ysaye: From Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27. Sonata No. 5 in G Major. I. L'Aurore

Konstantia Gourzi: Aria for violin and piano, Op. 94

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