Maistorovici BACH, Passacaglia for solo violin- Mayumi Kanagawa

Описание: "B.A.C.H., Passacaglia for solo violin” was commissioned by George Enescu Festival as compulsory work for the 2024 George Enescu International Violin Competition.

“B.A.C.H., passacaglia for solo violin” is an homage to the tradition tracing back to Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas through the heritage of legendary violinists and composers such as Biber, Vivaldi, Tartini, Locatelli, Paganini, Ysaÿe, Kreisler, Enescu, Bartók, Berio, Widmann, as well as to the historical obsession with the BACH motif across works by Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schoenberg, Webern, Dallapiccola, Penderecki, Schnittke, Gubaidulina. As such, the BACH motif and the archetypal principle of the passacaglia are projected through a metamodernist prism, in a manner related to some of my previous works such as “Cadence En Espace”, “Concert Transilvan”, “Little Harmonic Tesseract” or “Metamorphose after M.C.Escher”. As a competition piece, beyond the traditional and extended technical and musical challenges, the work showcases the violinist’s “freedom in control” in performance. (Vlad Maistorovici)
Score available at: https://www.universaledition.com/en/C...

Video & Audio: Mark Prentice-Whitney, mpw productions
Recorded in London 2024 at the Grand Hall of the Ratiu Family Charitable Foundation

Mayumi plays on the "Wilhelmj" Stradivarius 1725, on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation