Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst was nothing more than a stupendously talented violinist and a staggeringly inventive transcriber of other composers' music. And as this 2008 Hyperion recording by violinist Ilya Gringolts shows, that is more than enough to sustain his career during his lifetime and just enough to maintain his reputation after his death. The program here features Ernst's three greatest hits -- his jaw-dropping "Variations on The Last Rose of Summer," his eye-popping "Grand Caprice" on Schubert's Erlkönig, and his death ...
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Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst was nothing more than a stupendously talented violinist and a staggeringly inventive transcriber of other composers' music. And as this 2008 Hyperion recording by violinist Ilya Gringolts shows, that is more than enough to sustain his career during his lifetime and just enough to maintain his reputation after his death. The program here features Ernst's three greatest hits -- his jaw-dropping "Variations on The Last Rose of Summer," his eye-popping "Grand Caprice" on Schubert's Erlkönig, and his death-defying "Fantasie brilliant" on themes from Rossini's Otello -- plus his lesser known though no less impressive Élégie sur la mort d'un object chéri. Gringolts has the strength, sensitivity, lucidity, and above all the virtuosity to handle Ernst's staggeringly difficult music. Double stops, triple stops, multiple lines, right-hand arpeggios, left-hand pizzicatos, harmonics: whatever Ernst's music wants, the young Russian violinist supplies it in full measure. Ashley Wass, who had...
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