Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: Complete Music for Violin and Piano, Volume One
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812-65) was one of the leading musicians of his day, a friend of Berlioz, Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn, and for Joseph Joachim 'the greatest violinist I ever heard'. But the popular encore pieces by which Ernst is remembered today represent only a fraction of his output. This series of six CDs presents his complete violin works for the first time, revealing one of the instrument's most accomplished and memorable composers. The first disc shows him in a range of moods, from the mystery and grandeur of the Prophet Fantasy and the Chopinesque poetry of the Two Nocturnes to the bizarre whimsy of The Carnival of Venice and infectious high spirits of the Rondo Papageno — the nineteenth-century virtuoso violin both in introspective melancholy and at its most dazzlingly flamboyant.
Sherban Lupu, violin
Ian Hobson, piano
Listen To This Recording:
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Fantasie brilliante sur le Prophète (Opéra de G. Meyerbeer), Op. 24 (c. 1850)
- I. Allegretto molto moderato Audio Player
- II. Andantino pastorale
- No. 2 in E major Audio Player
- No. 1 in A major
- Theme Audio Player
- Variation I Audio Player
- Variation II Audio Player
- Variation III Audio Player
- Variation IV Audio Player
- Variation V Audio Player
- Variation VI Audio Player
- Variation VII Audio Player
- Variation VIII Audio Player
- Variation IX Audio Player
- Variation X Audio Player
- Variation XI Audio Player
- Variation XII Audio Player
- Variation XIII Audio Player
- Variation XIV Audio Player
- Variation XV Audio Player
- Variation XVI Audio Player
- Variation XVII Audio Player
- Variation XVIII Audio Player
- Variation XIX Audio Player
- Variation XX Audio Player
- Variation XXI Audio Player
- Variation XXII Audio Player
- Variation XXIII Audio Player
- Variation XXIV Audio Player
- Variation XXV
- No. 1, Adagio sentimentale Audio Player
- No. 2, Rondino grazioso
- Introduction Audio Player
- Theme Audio Player
- Variation I Audio Player
- Variation II Audio Player
- Variation III Audio Player
- Variation IV and Moderato Audio Player
- Variation V
- Introduzione: Andante Audio Player
- Rondo: Allegro moderato Audio Player
- Final: Presto Audio Player
- Rondo Papageno, Op. 20 (c. 1845)
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Deux Nocturnes, Op. 8 (c. 1834)
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Carnaval de Venise (Variations burlesques sur la canzonetta ‘Cara mamma mia’), Op. 18 (1837)
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Deux Morceaux de Salon, Op. 13 (1841t42)
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Thème Allemand Varié, Op. 9 (c. 1835)
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Rondo Allemand pour Piano et Violon sur des thèmes d’Oberon, Schunke’s Op. 23 (c. 1836)
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Fanfare Magazine :
‘With its close and detailed recorded sound, its sympathetic collaboration between violinist and pianist, and its exploration of the music of a central figure in the history of violin playing (and, in the note, that figure himself), both specialists and nonspecialists should find something of interest. Urgently recommended to all sorts of listeners.’
—Robert Maxham, Fanfare Magazine
Gramophone :
‘… Dismayingly overlooked, like so many other once-celebrated composer-virtuosos of the 19th century, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812‑65) is at last beginning to receive a measure of recognition, on disc at least.’
—Jeremy Nicholas, Gramophone