Poeme: Franck/Ysaye: Duos for Violin and Piano

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Franck's and Ysaye's chromatically intensified sound-worlds possess an aching sensual allure in Jacobs's deeply felt, beguiningly phrased readings. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 13th Jan 2014
Catalogue No: CC72624
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 56 minutes

Ysaÿe: Poeme elegiaque in D minor, Op. 12

Work length15:05

Album only

Lisa Jacobs, Ksenia Kouzmenko

Ysaÿe: Extase Op. 21

Work length11:24

$2.00

$2.80

Lisa Jacobs, Ksenia Kouzmenko

Franck, C: Violin Sonata in A major

Work length29:36

$5.00

$7.00

Lisa Jacobs, Ksenia Kouzmenko

I. Allegretto ben moderato

Track length6:42

$1.00

$1.40

II. Allegro

Track length8:38

$1.50

$2.10

III. Recitativo – Fantasia: ben moderato

Track length7:52

$1.50

$2.10

IV. Allegretto poco mosso

Track length6:24

$1.00

$1.40

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Three virtuoso works for violin and piano, two by the Belgian composer Eugene Ysaye: Poème Elégiaque op. 12 and Extase op. 21, and a piece written as a wedding present for Ysaye by his friend Cesar Franck, the Sonata in A major are performed by the highly talented Dutch violinist Lisa Jacobs with pianist Gunar Letzbor.

The title of Ysaye’s Poème Elégiaque op. 12 is derived from the middle section of the piece, which depicts a passing funeral procession accompanied by tolling bells. It was played at Ysaye’s own funeral. Cesar Franck’s Sonata in A Major was written in 1886 and is one of the composer’s most celebrated works.

The Dutch violinist Lisa Jacobs has performed the works featured here in many of her concerts since she first discovered them at the age of 16. Having started playing the violin at the age of six, she was accepted in the Young Talent class of the Utrecht Conservatory and continued studying with Ilya Grubert at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. At the age of only 17, Lisa made a successful debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Riccardo Chailly. She has won several first prizes in both national and international competitions, one of them being at the 2nd International Jascha Heifetz Violin Competition in Lithuania 2005, where she also received the Audience Prize.

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May 2014

Franck's and Ysaye's chromatically intensified sound-worlds possess an aching sensual allure in Jacobs's deeply felt, beguiningly phrased readings.

Poeme: Franck/Ysaye: Duos for Violin and Piano

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