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Bohemia
Various composers

Tamsin Waley-Cohen

Bohemia

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212051023
Catnr: SIGCD 510
Release date: 03 November 2017
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212051023
Catalogue number
SIGCD 510
Release date
03 November 2017
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About the album

Tamsin Waley Cohen is joined by pianist Huw Watkins for a new disc exploring folk-inspired Bohemia from before the First World War – featuring works by Antonin Dvořák, Josef Suk and Leoš Janáček.

This disc follows Tamsin’s recent critically-praised disc of Roy Harris and John Adams’ Violin Concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, as well as previous discs with Huw Watkins exploring some lesser-known gems of the violina and Piano repertoire.

Muziek vol bitterzoete nostalgie
In deze opname wordt violiste Tamsin Waley-Cohen bijgestaan door pianist Huw Watkins. Het is een album met volksmuziek van Antonin Dvořák, Josef Suk en Leoš Janáček, geïnspireerd op het Bohemen van voor de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Haar voorgaande album met vioolconcerten van John Adams en Roy Harris kreeg goede recensies van de critici. Datzelfde geldt voor de andere opnamen waarin de violiste samenspeelt met Watkins, met wie ze graag optreedt.

De Times beschrijft Tamsin Waley-Cohen als een violiste die het publiek boeit met gedurfde en onbevreesde uitvoeringen. Ze wordt ook vermetel en intens genoemd. In ieder geval kent de violiste een avontuurlijke en gevarieerde carrière. Ze trad ondermeer op met de Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra en BBC Concert Orchestra en ook met bekende dirigenten als Andrew Litton, Jose Serebrier and Tamas Vasary. Ze treedt op in Europa, de Verenigde Staten en Nieuw Zeeland, speelt op festivals en in grote concertzalen als de Barbican, Wigmore Hall en de Bridgewater Hall.

Tamsin treedt regelmatig op met Huw Watkins die over een uitzonderlijke vaardigheid op de piano beschikt en kunstzinnige composities maakt. Hij is een allround componist en musicus en veel gevraagd pianist in Engeland.

Artist(s)

Tamsin Waley-Cohen

British-American violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen is known for her visceral and deeply expressive performances in repertoire spanning six centuries. With musical storytelling central to her approach, she has gained a reputation for her “undeniably-fabulous playing” (Classical Source) and poetic performances that go straight to the heart. In addition to concerts with the Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Hallé, Liverpool Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Royal Northern Sinfonia and BBC orchestras, amongst others, she has twice been associate artist with the Orchestra of the Swan and worked with conductors including Andrew Litton, Vasily Petrenko, Ben Gernon, Ryan Bancroft and Tamás Vásáry. Her duo partners include James Baillieu, Huw Watkins, Cordelia Williams and George Fu. She is thrilled to be a Signum Classics Artist,...
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British-American violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen is known for her visceral and deeply expressive performances in repertoire spanning six centuries. With musical storytelling central to her approach, she has gained a reputation for her “undeniably-fabulous playing” (Classical Source) and poetic performances that go straight to the heart. In addition to concerts with the Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Hallé, Liverpool Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Royal Northern Sinfonia and BBC orchestras, amongst others, she has twice been associate artist with the Orchestra of the Swan and worked with conductors including Andrew Litton, Vasily Petrenko, Ben Gernon, Ryan Bancroft and Tamás Vásáry.

Her duo partners include James Baillieu, Huw Watkins, Cordelia Williams and George Fu. She is thrilled to be a Signum Classics Artist, for whom she has recorded over 10 albums to great critical acclaim “her interpretation is technically beyond reproach and musically imaginative” (Gramophone). With her sister, composer Freya Waley-Cohen, and architects Finbarr O’Dempsey and Andrew Skulina, she held an Open Space residency at Aldeburgh, culminating in the 2017 premiere of Permutations at the Aldeburgh Festival, an interactive performance artwork synthesising music and architecture. Her love of chamber music led her to start the Honeymead Festival, now in its 17th year, from which all proceeds go to support local charities.

Her interest in working with living composers and the music of today has led to premieres of works written for her by composers including Oliver Knussen, Huw Watkins, Dobrinka Tabakova, Freya Waley-Cohen, Richard Causton, Joseph Phibbs, Richard Blackford, and Deborah Pritchard amongst others. Upcoming projects include premiering new works by Erkki-Sven Tüür, Misha Mullov-Abbado and Gavin Higgins at festivals and venues including the Aldeburgh Festival, Lammermuir Festival, the Two Moors Festival and Wigmore Hall, as well as celebrating 40 years of Kurtag’s ‘Kafka Fragments’ with a number of performances with soprano Claire Booth. She will also be joining Manchester Camerata in September for a world premiere a new concerto by Nick Martin, inspired by the work of sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth.

She was the UK recipient of the ECHO Rising Stars Awards, touring all the major concert halls of Europe. She has also toured Japan, China and New Zealand and made her North American New York, San Francisco and Washington debuts. She was a founding member of the Albion string quartet, and appeared regularly with them at venues including Wigmore Hall, Aldeburgh Festival, and the Concertgebouw.

She is Artistic Director of the Two Moors Festival and has previously been Artistic Director of the Music Series at the Tricycle Theatre, London, and the Bargello festival in Florence. She studied at the Royal College of Music and her teachers included Itzhak Rashkovsky, Ruggiero Ricci and András Keller.


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01.
Sonata in F Major for Violin & Piano, Op. 57: I. Allegro, ma non troppo
11:05
(Antonin Dvořák) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
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Sonata in F Major for Violin & Piano, Op. 57 : II. Poco sostenuto
06:17
(Antonin Dvořák) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
03.
Sonata in F Major for Violin & Piano, Op. 57: III. Allegro molto
05:45
(Antonin Dvořák) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
04.
Four Romantic Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 75: I. Allegro moderato
03:29
(Antonin Dvořák) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
05.
Four Romantic Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 75: II. Allegro maestoso
02:36
(Antonin Dvořák) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
06.
Four Romantic Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 75: III. Allegro appassionato
02:24
(Antonin Dvořák) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
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Four Romantic Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 75: IV. Larghetto
05:25
(Antonin Dvořák) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
08.
Four Romantic Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 17: I. Quasi ballata
05:39
(Josef Suk) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
09.
Four Romantic Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 17: II. Appassionato
04:21
(Josef Suk) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
10.
Four Romantic Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 17: III. Un poco triste
04:23
(Josef Suk) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
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Four Romantic Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 17: IV. Burleska
03:29
(Josef Suk) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
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Sonata for Violin & Piano: I. Con moto
05:32
(Leoš Janáček) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
13.
Sonata for Violin & Piano: II. Ballada
05:10
(Leoš Janáček) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
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Sonata for Violin & Piano: III. Allegretto
02:39
Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
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Sonata for Violin & Piano: IV. Adagio
05:49
(Leoš Janáček) Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins
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Often bought together with..

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Tamsin Waley-Cohen / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar
The Lark Ascending / Introduction and Allegro
Tamsin Waley-Cohen / Orchestra of the Swan / David Curtis

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