Bella Hristova - Solo Violin Music: Twelve Scenes / Nine Studies - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

SOMM Recordings announces the launch of a major three-volume series devoted to the rich and varied songs of Stephen Dodgson on the eve of the 10th anniversary of his death in 2013, aged 89. Volume 1, The Peasant Poet, features tenor James Gilchrist, baritone Roderick Williams, soprano Ailish Tynan and mezzo-soprano Katie Bray, accompanied by Christopher Glynn (piano), Mark Eden (guitar) and Ian Wilson (recorder). Son of the Symbolist painter John Arthur Dodgson and a distant cousin of Lewis Carroll, Stephen Dodgson was a prolific composer with a notable focus on works for guitar, harpsichord and recorder. Although neglected, his more than 100 songs are a substantial and defining part of his output. Composed in 1961, 'The Peasant Poet' from Four Poems of John Clare, settings of the troubled and travailed poet, gives Volume 1 it's title. Contrastingly, 1950's Tideways sets four poems by the idiosyncratic Ezra Pound. The six songs from Dodgson's 1998 Second Series of Australian Bush Ballads Inchmakes use of his own melodic style, graceful, elegant or sharply original and witty... with expressive accompaniments, sometimes simple, sometimes richly chromaticInch, as John Warrack comments in his booklet notes, supplemented by Robert Matthew-Walker's informative note on Dodgson's style. Writing in his native Gaelige, Irish playwright and political activist Joseph Campbell prompted 1949's Irishry, the late The Monk and His Cat from 2004 returning to Ireland to animatedly set a playful ninth-century text. Seven other songs, drawn from a variety of sources and voiced with appropriate individuality, complete a recital that eloquently argues for Dodgson's place amongst the best of modern British art-song composers. Album Tracks 1. Four Poems of John Clare~Trotty Wagtail 2. Four Poems of John Clare~The Peasant Poet 3. Four Poems of John Clare~Turkeys 4. Four Poems of Jo

Album Tracks 1. Con No.5 in E Flat 'La Tempesta Di Mare' (Allegro E) Presto 2. Con No.5 in E Flat 'La Tempesta Di Mare' Largo 3. Con No.5 in E Flat 'La Tempesta Di Mare' Presto 4. Con No.6 in C, RV 180 'Il Piacere' Allegro 5. Con No.6 in C, RV 180 'Il Piacere' Largo (E Cantabile) 6. Con No.6 in C, RV 180 'Il Piacere' Allegro 7. Con No.7 in D, RV 242 Allegro 8. Con No.7 in D, RV 242 Largo 9. Con No.7 in D, RV 242 Allegro 10. Con No.8 in G, RV 332 Allegro 11. Con No.8 in G, RV 332 Largo 12. Con No.8 in G, RV 332 Allegro (Molto Vivace) 13. Con No.10 in B Flat, RV 362 'La Caccia' Allegro 14. Con No.10 in B Flat, RV 362 'La Caccia' Adagio (Grave) 15. Con No.10 in B Flat, RV 362 'La Caccia' Allegro 16. Con No.11 in D, RV 210 Allegro 17. Con No.11 in D, RV 210 Largo 18. Con No.11 in D, RV 210 Allegro 19. Con No.12 in C, RV 178 Allegro 20. Con No.12 in C, RV 178 Largo 21. Con No.12 in C, RV 178 Allegro

Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705) was one of the most brilliant members of the significant school of violinists that flourished in seventeenth-century Dresden. This impressive virtuoso, who was even applauded by Louis XIV at Versailles, wrote the very first compositions for unaccompanied violin, which of course foreshadow the later masterpieces of Johann Sebastian Bach. The programme recorded here includes some suites from his collection published in Dresden in 1696, as well as the suite that was printed in the Mercure galant of Paris in 1683, following his visit to Versailles. Plamena Nikitassova was born in Varna (Bulgaria). At sixteen years old, she won a music scholarship that she spent in Switzerland. She then studied classical violin with M. Karafilova Piguet at the music high school of Geneva and with Prof. M. Frischenschlager at the music high school of Vienna. She obtained her teaching and soloist diploma in 1999 in Geneva, with distinction, and then played in concerts within the romantic repertoire. She performed as a soloist and chamber musician at festivals in Leipzig, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Innsbruck and Paris. Album Tracks 1. Suite No. 2 in a Major 2. Suite No. 5 in D minor 3. Suite for Solo Violin in a Major 4. Suite No. 1 in a Minor 5. Suite No. 4 in C Major 6. Suite No. 3 in B Flat Major