Polish violinist Janusz Wawrowski attempts something quite interesting here and largely succeeds: he wants to transfer the virtuoso ethos of the Romantic era to repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries. He looks the part in the graphics with his traditional Polish jacket, and he begins convincingly with one of the standards of the virtuoso repertoire, the Violin Sonata in E major, Op 27, No. 6, of Eugène Ysaÿe, and he pushes the violinistic limits even further with Luciano Berio's magisterial, borderline unplayable ...
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Polish violinist Janusz Wawrowski attempts something quite interesting here and largely succeeds: he wants to transfer the virtuoso ethos of the Romantic era to repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries. He looks the part in the graphics with his traditional Polish jacket, and he begins convincingly with one of the standards of the virtuoso repertoire, the Violin Sonata in E major, Op 27, No. 6, of Eugène Ysaÿe, and he pushes the violinistic limits even further with Luciano Berio's magisterial, borderline unplayable Sequenza VIII for violin solo (1976), which gives the album its name and which defines both its own tonal system and its own sonic field, often to the violinist's detriment (you might as well sample this, track 9, to get an idea of Wawrowski's formidable powers). But Wawrowski balances these with works that allude to the national and pictorial strands of the virtuoso repertoire, including two Polish works (by Grazyna Bacewicz and Krzysztof Penderecki) and a real rarity, the pictorial but...
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Add this copy of Sequenza to cart. $31.20, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2016 by PLG UK Classics.
