Sarasate · Saint-Saëns · Wieniawski · Ysaÿe

A programme of fireworks and sweetmeats to showcase Höpcker´s technical brilliance.

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Tracklist:

Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)

	Aires Gitanos/Gypsy Airs, Op. 20	9:05
	Moderato - Lento - Un poco più lento (1)	7:01
	Allegro molto vivace (2)	2:04
	Romanza Andaluza, Op. 22 No.1	5:25
	Habanera, Op. 21 No.2	5:55

Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)

Sonata for Solo Violin No.6, Op.27

7:24

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Havanaise, Op. 83

10:06

Henri Wieniawski (1835-1880)

	Polonaise de Concert in D, Op. 4	5:46
	Légende, Op. 17	7:31
	Fantaisie Brillante sur des motifs de l‘opéra »Faust« de Gounod, Op. 20	17:41
	Allegro moderato - Andante ma non troppo (9)	6:42
	Allegro agitato non troppo (10)	2:19
	Andante (11)	5:10
	Tempo di Valse, Allegro non troppo (12)	3:30

Total Time: 69:02 Minutes

Reviews:

A Fizzing collection of violin Showpieces

Here is a programme of fireworks and sweetmeats to showcase Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker´s technical brilliance.

The gifted young German violinist´s silky virtuosity makes light of the hair-raising difficulties the music presents. Yet amid the frothy pleasures of Sarasate´s Habanera and Wieniawski´s Fantaisie brillante on themes from Gounod´s Faust, we have the more serious exploration of technique in the single movement of Ysaÿe´s Sixth Sonata, where pages of double-stopping display Höpcker´s impeccable intonation.

Almost without a pause between the tracks, the piano introduces Saint-Saëns´s Havanaise, where subsequently Höpcker´s fingers fly around the fingerboard with dazzling speed, and precision is interspersed with her honeyed tone in slow passages. ...

It serves to heighten Höpcker´s mercurial dexterity in the final Allegro molto vivace, however, and it is a device she uses later in the disc when slow and fast sections sit side by side. Fabio Bidini is the responsive and well-balanced partner. ...

The STRAD, David Denton, March 2013