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Release Date: Tuesday 1 September 2009
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"Bartók's Sonata presents some of the most technically stretching music written for solo violin. Viviane Hagner is completely in control from the start, with pin-point accuracy of intonation and an intensity which is subtly varied, but never relaxes." BBC Music Magazine, April 2007 ****
"Technically the performance is immaculate, and many passages of double stopping are perfectly tuned. Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Suite No.1 receives a superb account, one where Hagner's rhythmic freedom in shaping each movement to such good purpose elevates the score to a masterpiece of the genre. Even the fiendishly difficult crossing of strings in the final Ciaconna is taken with effortless security…" David Denton, The Strad
"Bartók's Sonata presents some of the most technically stretching music written for solo violin. Viviane Hagner is completely in control from the start, with pin-point accuracy of intonation and an intensity which is subtly varied, but never relaxes." BBC Music Magazine, April 2007 ****
Bach, J S:
Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004
Bartók:
Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124, Sz. 117
Hartmann, K:
Suite No. 1 for solo violin