Cat No:
ELQ4807841
Release Date: 20 April 2015
Label: Australian Eloquence
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 0028948078417
Genres: Classical Orchestral
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Description
Ion Voicu was a legend in his own country, Romania, and in the profession at large, and appeared in most major musical centres. Yet he was not as well known in the English-speaking countries as he should have been. The long cold war and the dictatorial regime in his native land were mainly to blame for this state of affairs; but fortunately Voicu was able to make a few precious recordings on visits to the west.
Ion Voicu was born into this gypsy tradition in Bucharest on 8 October 1923. His father was a violinist and the family could trace their musical involvement back 300 years. He made his concert début aged sixteen, with Paganini's First Concerto.
Ion Voicu died in Bucharest on 24 February 1997. 'He was an outstanding violinist with a superb technique,' says his Romanian successor Sherban Lupu. 'His performances of the Paganini First Concerto were spectacularly memorable. I grew up as a small boy with him as a model for me, an aspiring young student. He was a very pleasant man – I got to know him better in 1974 when he was a member of the jury at the Carl Flesch competition in London and I was a prizewinner.'
His Decca recordings ranged from the popular – the Mendelssohn and Bruch Concertos, a favourite coupling in the LP era – to the highly discriminating. This collection, bringing together his three recordings for Decca, include several twentieth-century sonatas for violin and piano with Monique Haas and Voicu's compatriot Victoria Stefanescu.
All these recordings receive their first release on CD, and Tully Potter provides the insightful liner notes.
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Tracklisting
- 1. Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
- 2. Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
- 3. Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata For Violin And Piano No. 2 In D Major, Op. 94a
- 4. Darius Mihauld: Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 40
- 5. Claude Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor
- 6. Maurice Ravel: Violin Sonata in G major
- 7. EUGÈNE YSAŸE: Sonata for Solo Violin in G major, Op. 27 No. 5
- 8. Georges Enescu: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano in F minor, Op. 6
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