Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin / Bach: Partita No. 2 Jean-Frédéric Molard

• Bella Bartók (1881-1945): Sonata for Solo Violin, Sz. 117:
• 1 I. Tempo di ciaccona 10:34
• 2 II. Fuga (Risoluto, non troppo vivo) 05:17
• 3 III. Melodia (Adagio) 07:00
• 4 IV. Presto 05:35
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Partita for Solo Violin No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004:
• 5 I. Allemanda 04:29
• 6 II. Corrente 02:36
• 7 III. Sarabanda 04:34
• 8 IV. Giga 04:15
• 9 V. Ciaccona 14:22
• Total Runtime 58:42

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The genesis of this recording of Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin is a story of filiations: Endre Kleve, Jean-Frédéric Molard’s professor, was himself a student of Andre Gertler’s, a friend of Bartók. Consequently, the interpretation proposed here by the violinist is a mixture of this oral heritage and of personal research on the various editions of the score, enriched by the study of the correspondence between the composer and Yehudi Menuhin, to whom the work is dedicated.

Another kind of filiation exists in this recording between the two composers: Bartók, by beginning his Sonata with a ‘Tempo di ciaccona’, creates a parallel with Johann Sebastian Bach’s very famous ‘Chaconne’, the last movement of his monumental Partita No. 2, demonstrating to what degree the German composer influenced the history of writing for solo violin.

Jean-Frédéric Molard, violin

Recorded on 17-19 September 2012 at Mont-Saint-Guibert Church, Belgium
Recorded, mixed, mastered by Bastien Gilson
Produced by Jean- Frédéric Molard
Editing and Executive Producer: Aliénor Mahy

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