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Schubert, Violin & Piano
Franz Schubert

Mihaela Martin & Elena Bashkirova

Schubert, Violin & Piano

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Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085530274
Catnr: AVI 8553027
Release date: 06 August 2021
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CAvi
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4260085530274
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AVI 8553027
Release date
06 August 2021

"This CD is filled with delight from beginning to end....In every way, this is an excellent recital."

Fanfare, 31-1-2022
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About the album

The Lightness of Schubert

“Schubert’s music is always associated in my imagination with a journey in a horse-drawn carriage. Outside, the scenery is
flowing by. Cities, mountains, rivers, lakes, villages. At times the carriage slows down, then it speeds up again, but I always
have that feeling of being on a journey. Not on foot and not on horse, but in a carriage on wheels.” (Elena Bashkirova)

The year 1816 ushered in a series of new beginnings for 19-year old Franz Schubert. He had applied for a music
teaching job in Laibach (and soon would probably be overjoyed in secret that he was turned down, thus avoiding
the task of school teaching, which he abhorred). He sent Goethe a notebook with songs of his pen, hoping, in
vain, that he would be allowed to dedicate them to the “prince of poets”. He dreamt of his future wedding with the
soprano Therese Grob. And he composed incessantly. Apart from countless songs, Schubert’s catalogue already
included a half-dozen works for the stage, three masses, sixteen string quartets, overtures, piano music, and
choir pieces. Now, in the course of just a few weeks, he wrote his 4th Symphony, the “Tragic”. A cantata likewise
flowed from his pen. And the Stabat Mater. Fourteen new songs. Furthermore: three sonatas “for fortepiano and
violin”, his first chamber music works for violin.

Schubert probably intended these sonatas as music for domestic use: perhaps for Ferdinand, his favorite
brother, who, one year thereafter, arranged them for orchestra with Schubert’s approval.

Or perhaps they were
destined for the convivial circle of friends who gathered on a regular basis to make music, read out loud to one
another, and have lively discussions. Schubert also took up the violin himself at times: in his school days, he had
been the leader of the orchestra at the Vienna Stadtkonvikt (Municipal Seminary), where he was a pupil.

He thus
may have played these sonatas himself on the violin. We do not know. The sonatas were only published in 1836,
many years after Schubert’s death: publisher Anton Diabelli gave them the title “sonatinas”, and the name has
stuck until today.

Indeed, despite their brevity, and although at first glance they seem relatively easy to master in
terms of technique, the seemingly harmless epithet conceals a richly varied musical cosmos we can discover
through these works.

(Excerpt of the line notes by Eva Blaskewitz)

Artist(s)

Mihaela Martin (violin)

The Romanian-born artist Mihaela Martin is one of the most outstanding violin virtuosos of her generation. Her father gave her first violin lessons when she was five years old. She later studied with Stefan Gheorghiu, a pupil of George Enescu and David Oistrakh. At the age of 19, Mihaela Martin won second prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, which was followed by further main prizes in Montreal, Sion (Switzerland), and Brussels. Being awarded first prize in the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis launched her international career. Mihaela Martin has performed with renowned orchestras including the BBC Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, collaborating with conductors of the likes...
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The Romanian-born artist Mihaela Martin is one of the most outstanding violin virtuosos of her generation. Her father gave her first violin lessons when she was five years old. She later studied with Stefan Gheorghiu, a pupil of George Enescu and David Oistrakh.
At the age of 19, Mihaela Martin won second prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, which was followed by further main prizes in Montreal, Sion (Switzerland), and Brussels. Being awarded first prize in the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis launched her international career.
Mihaela Martin has performed with renowned orchestras including the BBC Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, collaborating with conductors of the likes of Kurt Masur, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Charles Dutoit, and Neeme Järvi.
In the 2019-2020 season, Mihaela Martin not only performed as a soloist, but also appeared at chamber music festivals in Italy, Norway, France, the UK, Israel, Germany, Greece, Romania, and Switzerland.
Along with Conrad Muck, Michael Barenboim, and Frans Helmerson, she is a member of the Michelangelo String Quartet, which she co-founded in 2003. Mihaela Martin is professor of violin at Cologne University of Music (Musikhochschule) and at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva, and gives masterclasses throughout the world. She also teaches at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin and is regularly invited to serve as a jury member for major international competitions.
Mihaela Martin plays a violin by J. B. Guadagnini that dates from 1748.

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Elena Bashkirova (piano)

Elena Bashkirova is a native of Moscow and a graduate of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied with her father, celebrated pianist and teacher Dmitri Bashkirov. Elena Bashkirova intensely studies and performs Classical-Romantic repertoire as well as music of the 20th century; her musical creativity has been strongly influenced by working together with such artists as Pierre Boulez, Sergiu Celibidache, Christoph von Dohnanyi, and Michael Gielen. In 1998, Elena Bashkirova founded the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, of which she is artistic director. Taking place every year in September, the festival has become one of the pillars of cultural life in Israel. Moreover, since 2012, its partner festival, intonations, has been held every year in April at the Berlin Jewish Museum. Bashkirova’s Jerusalem...
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Elena Bashkirova is a native of Moscow and a graduate of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied with her father, celebrated pianist and teacher Dmitri Bashkirov.
Elena Bashkirova intensely studies and performs Classical-Romantic repertoire as well as music of the 20th century; her musical creativity has been strongly influenced by working together with such artists as Pierre Boulez, Sergiu Celibidache, Christoph von Dohnanyi, and Michael Gielen.
In 1998, Elena Bashkirova founded the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, of which she is artistic director. Taking place every year in September, the festival has become one of the pillars of cultural life in Israel. Moreover, since 2012, its partner festival, intonations, has been held every year in April at the Berlin Jewish Museum.
Bashkirova’s Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival Ensemble carries the Festival’s artistry far beyond Israel’s borders by making appearances in renowned chamber music series in Berlin, Paris, London, Salzburg, Vienna, Buenos Aires, and Sao Paolo as well as at international summer festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, Verbier Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, George Enescu Festival (Bucharest), and the Beethovenfest in Bonn.
In 2018, Elena Bashkirova was the recipient of the annual Ruhr Piano Festival Prize and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

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Composer(s)

Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert already died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the...
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Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert already died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.
It was in the genre of the Lied that Schubert made his most indelible mark. Prior to Schubert's influence, Lieder tended toward a strophic, syllabic treatment of text, evoking the folksong qualities engendered by the stirrings of Romantic nationalism. Schubert expanded the potentialities of the genre like no other composer before.

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Press

This CD is filled with delight from beginning to end....In every way, this is an excellent recital.
Fanfare, 31-1-2022

In the playing of both you experience a degree of patience and reflection, which allows Schubert's music to speak for itself - or rather, sing.
De Nieuwe Muze, 01-10-2021

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01.
Sonatina No. 1 für Violine und Klavier D-Dur / for Violin and Piano in D Major, Op. 137 posth. D 384: I. Allegro molto
04:33
(Franz Schubert) Mihaela Martin, Elena Bashkirova
02.
Sonatina No. 1 für Violine und Klavier D-Dur / for Violin and Piano in D Major, Op. 137 posth. D 384: II. Andante
04:31
(Franz Schubert) Mihaela Martin, Elena Bashkirova
03.
Sonatina No. 1 für Violine und Klavier D-Dur / for Violin and Piano in D Major, Op. 137 posth. D 384: III. Allegro vivace
04:25
(Franz Schubert) Mihaela Martin, Elena Bashkirova
04.
Sonatina No. 2 für Violine und Klavier a-Moll / for Violin and Piano in A Minor, Op. 137 posth. D 385: I. Allegro moderato
09:02
(Franz Schubert) Mihaela Martin, Elena Bashkirova
05.
Sonatina No. 2 für Violine und Klavier a-Moll / for Violin and Piano in A Minor, Op. 137 posth. D 385: II. Andante
07:02
(Franz Schubert) Mihaela Martin, Elena Bashkirova
06.
Sonatina No. 2 für Violine und Klavier a-Moll / for Violin and Piano in A Minor, Op. 137 posth. D 385: III. Menuetto. Allegro
02:23
(Franz Schubert) Mihaela Martin, Elena Bashkirova
07.
Sonatina No. 2 für Violine und Klavier a-Moll / for Violin and Piano in A Minor, Op. 137 posth. D 385: IV. Allegro
04:52
(Franz Schubert) Mihaela Martin, Elena Bashkirova
08.
Sonatina No. 3 für Violine und Klavier g-Moll / for Violin and Piano in G Minor, Op. 137 posth. D 408: I. Allegro giusto
05:13
(Franz Schubert) Mihaela Martin, Elena Bashkirova
09.
Sonatina No. 3 für Violine und Klavier g-Moll / for Violin and Piano in G Minor, Op. 137 posth. D 408: II. Andante
07:27
(Franz Schubert) Mihaela Martin, Elena Bashkirova
10.
Sonatina No. 3 für Violine und Klavier g-Moll / for Violin and Piano in G Minor, Op. 137 posth. D 408: III. Menuetto
02:23
(Franz Schubert) Mihaela Martin, Elena Bashkirova
11.
Sonatina No. 3 für Violine und Klavier g-Moll / for Violin and Piano in G Minor, Op. 137 posth. D 408: IV. Allegro moderato
04:17
(Franz Schubert) Mihaela Martin, Elena Bashkirova
12.
Rondo für Violine und Klavier h-Moll / for Violin and Piano in B minor, Op. 70 D 895: I. Andante
03:22
(Franz Schubert) Mihaela Martin, Elena Bashkirova
13.
Rondo für Violine und Klavier h-Moll / for Violin and Piano in B minor, Op. 70 D 895: II. Allegro più mosso
12:02
(Franz Schubert) Mihaela Martin, Elena Bashkirova
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