Bartók, J.S. Bach & Schneeberger: Solo Violin Works Dmitry Smirnov

• Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945): Solo Violin Sonata, Sz. 117:
• 1 Bartók: Solo Violin Sonata, Sz. 117: I. Tempo di ciaccona 08:21
• 2 Bartók: Solo Violin Sonata, Sz. 117: II. Fuga. Risoluto, non troppo vivo 04:06
• 3 Bartók: Solo Violin Sonata, Sz. 117: III. Melodia. Adagio 06:28
• 4 Bartók: Solo Violin Sonata, Sz. 117: IV. Presto 04:37
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004:
• 5 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: I. Allemande 03:54
• 6 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: II. Courante 02:11
• 7 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: III. Sarabande 03:11
• 8 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: IV. Gigue 04:12
• 9 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne 09:25
• Hansheinz Schneeberger (1926 - 2019): Solo Violin Sonata:
• 10 Schneeberger: Solo Violin Sonata: I. Introduzione. Adagio, rubato 05:49
• 11 Schneeberger: Solo Violin Sonata: II. Allegro comodo e grazioso 06:39
• 12 Schneeberger: Solo Violin Sonata: III. Finale. Allegro vivace, ma non troppo 02:51
• Total Runtime 01:01:44

Info for Bartók, J.S. Bach & Schneeberger: Solo Violin Works

Russian violinist Dmitry Smirnov's début recording on FHR features works by master baroque composer J. S. Bach, a leading figure of 20th century music Béla Bartók and a wonderful newly discovered work by influencial mid-twentieth Swiss violinist Hansheinz Schneeberger who died in 2019. The Schneeberger 'Sonata', written two years before Bartok's 'Sonata', is a violin show piece, displaying much imagination in its idiomatic and virtoustic violin writing this is the first recording of the work. There are many connections that link these three works together the Bartok and Schneeberger sonatas show influences of Bach. Also, Bartok's 'First Violin Concerto' was premièred by Schneeberger.

On this album Smirnov plays both a modern and baroque violin.

Dmitry Smirnov, violin

Dmitry Smirnov
was born in St. Petersburg in 1994 in a musical family. He began to study music at the age of four. Graduated from the Middle Special School of Music of the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (classes of Elena Zaitseva and Anastasia Milka). Currently a student at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne (class of Pavel Vernikov) and the Musik-Akademie Basel.

Prize-winner at the Moscow International David Oistrakh Violin Competition (2006, 1st prize), the Gartow Stiftung International Competition in St Petersburg (2007, 1st prize), the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in Cardiff (2008, 2nd prize), the International Tibor Varga Violin Competition in Sion (2015, 1st prize and Audience Award) and the International Contest of Music Interpretations in Lausanne (2017, 1st prize). Winner of the Rotary Excellence Prize International Violin Competition in Lugano. In 2018 he was awarded the 3rd prize at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition.

In 2007 he made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York, and in 2009 he appeared at Wigmore Hall in London. Has taken part in the Salzburg Festival, the international festivals Crescendo, Musical Olympus, Moscow Greets its Friends, L'estate musicale (Italy), Popkomm (Germany) and Inverno musicale (Brazil). Has appeared with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St Petersburg Philharmonic (Honoured Ensemble of Russia), the State Academic Symphonic Cappella of Russia, the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow State Philharmonic, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra and the chamber ensembles Moscow Virtuosi and Moscovia.

Engagements for the 2018-2019 season include performances at the St Petersburg House of Music, the Zaradye Hall and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow as well as the Brucknerhaus in Linz.

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