Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé, Ilya Gringolts, Florent Jodelet – Michael Jarrell: Orchestral Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:01 minutes | 885 MB | Genre: Classical
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The music of Michael Jarrell has been said to ‘examine states of dream and unreality, searching for a moment of truth’ – a truth which is often found in the lowest sonorities and slowest tempi, a place where time stands still. His works are often interrelated, not only by a certain sensitivity or a distinctive tone, but also by the recurrence of particular features that he reworks in different contexts. The present disc combines three orchestral works composed over a period of almost a quarter of a century. In Paysages avec figures absentes, played here by solo violinist Ilya Gringolts, the composer wished to find a new approach to writing for violin within an ensemble. Premièred a few months before this recording by the Orchestre des Pays de la Loire and Pascal Rophé, the Sechs Augeblicke for orchestra suggest a concentration or implosion of sound matter within musical fragments, as a sort of reference to Schubert. Finally, the guiding idea of Un long fracas somptueux de rapide céleste with solo percussionist Florent Jodelet is a short, powerful ‘initial explosion’ that recurs, like a punctuation mark, throughout the piece, more or less regularly, in different forms.
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Ilya Gringolts, Peter Laul – Stravinsky – Music for Violin, Vol. 1 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:48 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
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In his autobiography, Igor Stravinsky wrote of his not having had any ‘great liking’ for the combination of strings and piano. That there nevertheless are a number of chamber works by him featuring the violin is to a large extent due to the violinist Samuel Dushkin. The two were introduced to each other by Stravinsky’s German music publisher who wanted to persuade him to compose a violin concerto. They obviously hit it off: their collaboration continued after the concerto had come into being in 1931, and they devised a recital programme to perform together on tours.
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Ilya Gringolts, Nicola Guerini, Prague Philharmonia – Dvořák: A Bohemian Rhapsody (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:16 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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Despite his youth, Ilya Gringolts can already look back on sixteen extraordinarily successful years in his violinist career. His inquisitiveness regarding new musical challenges has shown him to be an outstanding musical personality.
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Ilya Gringolts & Finnish Baroque Orchestra – Il labirinto armonico (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:33 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Published in 1733, Pietro Locatelli’s L’Arte del violino for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo took both violin technique and the solo concerto as a genre into a whole new realm. The twelve concertos included in the collection also played a part in forming the image of the violin virtuoso, reaching its full bloom with Paganini towards the end of the century. While the unusually high technical demands of the solo part are obvious to the listener from the start, the great surprise comes at the end of the first and third movements of each of the concertos.
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Ilya Gringolts – Stravinsky: Music for Violin, Vol. 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:24 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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The relationship between Igor Stravinsky and the violin didn’t get off to a promising start: early on in his career the composer stated that he was not fond of stringed instruments, finding them ‘rich in cheap expressivity’. He was also suspicious of virtuoso interpreters – among which violinists were particularly numerous – and their tendency to ‘seek immediate triumphs and to lend themselves to the wishes of the public’. Nevertheless there are in Stravinsky’s oeuvre a number of works featuring a solo violin, all of which have now been recorded by his compatriot Ilya Gringolts.
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Ilya Gringolts – Ciaccona (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:25:15 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
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Throughout his career, Ilya Gringolts has devoted himself to performing contemporary music as well as the great concert repertoire, while also developing a keen interest in historical performance practice. The focus of his latest recital recording is therefore quite logical: music of our own time and its inspiration: Johann Sebastian Bach. The album title is “Ciaccona” and besides Bach’s iconic composition, Gringolts plays a further two chaconnes – or three if one counts the Ciacconina which opens Heinz Holliger’s brief cycle, composed for Isabelle Faust in 2014.
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Ilya Gringolts – Adams & Korngold – Violin Concertos (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 56:22 minutes | 939 MB | Genre: Classical
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With his 1993 violin concerto, John Adams set out to offer a contemporary take on the idea of melody. Russian violinist Ilya Gringolts brings Adams’ mysterious, pioneering lines into reality with this smart and illuminating album. Ideas bounce off each other as orchestral interjections converge with Gringolts’ frantic solos.
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Ilya Gringolts, Västerås Sinfonietta, Simon Crawford-Phillips – Albert Schnelzer: A Freak in Burbank (2022)
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Born in 1972, Albert Schnelzer belongs to the most widely noticed Scandinavian composers of his generation. He has written in all genres, and the present recording includes a concerto as well as both orchestral and chamber works. Schnelzer’s orchestral output has attracted great attention, with A Freak in Burbank belonging to his most often heard works. Inspired by Haydn as well as by the filmmaker Tim Burton, it has been played more than 70 times to date, in venues such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Royal Albert Hall. It is officially recorded for the first time here, performed by the Västerås Sinfonietta conducted by Simon Crawford-Phillips. The same team has also made the premiere recordings of two other works: Burn My Letters – a commission for Clara Schumann’s 200th anniversary – and the Violin Concerto “Nocturnal Songs”, composed for Ilya Gringolts. Interspersed with these are three chamber works – Dance with the Devil, Apollonian Dances and Frozen Landscape – performed by some of Sweden’s foremost instrumentalists.
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Ilya Gringolts, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra & Andrey Boreyko – Tchaikowsky: Violin Concerto Classico – Kancheli: Libera me (Quasi-Requiem) [Live] (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:38 minutes | 577 MB | Genre: Classical
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Despite the rather numerous and diverse orchestral line-up, the idea of concertare has a more chamber-like character here. The soloist is usually not directly confronted with the massive sound of a full orchestral tutti, but rather is involved in dialogues and interactions with small groups of instruments. With exceptional naturalness, André Tchaikowsky managed to achieve in this concerto a balance between solo violin and a full-scale symphony orchestra, employing textures of a linear, quasi-polyphonic character – enriched, however, by intense and refined harmony and contrapuntal devices drawing on the Baroque tradition.
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