Ilya Gringolts - Ciaccona (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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 disc 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. The Spanish composer Roberto Gerhard wrote his Chaconne using his own take on twelve-tone technique. In his introduction to the album, Gringolts describes its twelve movements as including ‘everything from chorale to ländler … probably the most Viennese music ever written by a Catalan.’ The album closes with Kontrapartita by the French composer Brice Pauset, ‘a kind of through-the-looking-glass Bach partita’ to quote Gringolts once again. Pauset composed his work in 2008 – seven movements, each written with a particular movement from Bach’s partitas for solo violin in mind. For this work (and the interwoven movements by Bach) Gringolts has chosen to use a violin with a baroque setup, finding that the instrument seemed to respond to the ‘historically informed avant-garde’ of the writing.

TRACKLIST

01. Ilya Gringolts - Holliger: 3 Kleine Szenen: No. 1, Ciacconina
02. Ilya Gringolts - Holliger: 3 Kleine Szenen: No. 2, Geisterklopfen
03. Ilya Gringolts - Holliger: 3 Kleine Szenen: No. 3, Musette funèbre
04. Ilya Gringolts - Gerhard: Chaconne: I. Risoluto
05. Ilya Gringolts - Gerhard: Chaconne: II. Calmo con leggerezza
06. Ilya Gringolts - Gerhard: Chaconne: III. Allegro con fuoco
07. Ilya Gringolts - Gerhard: Chaconne: IV. Allegretto
08. Ilya Gringolts - Gerhard: Chaconne: V. Veloce
09. Ilya Gringolts - Gerhard: Chaconne: VI. Con riposo
10. Ilya Gringolts - Gerhard: Chaconne: VII. Allegro con brio
11. Ilya Gringolts - Gerhard: Chaconne: VIII. Adagietto
12. Ilya Gringolts - Gerhard: Chaconne: IX. Molto vivace, con impeto
13. Ilya Gringolts - Gerhard: Chaconne: X. Andante sostenuto
14. Ilya Gringolts - Gerhard: Chaconne: XI. Grazioso
15. Ilya Gringolts - Gerhard: Chaconne: XII. Allegro assai
16. Ilya Gringolts - Pauset: Kontrapartita: I. Preludio
17. Ilya Gringolts - Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (Excerpts): I. Preludio
18. Ilya Gringolts - Pauset: Kontrapartita: II. Allemanda
19. Ilya Gringolts - Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002 (Excerpts): I. Allemanda
20. Ilya Gringolts - Pauset: Kontrapartita: III. Corrente
21. Ilya Gringolts - Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002 (Excerpts): III. Corrente
22. Ilya Gringolts - Pauset: Kontrapartita: IV. Sarabande
23. Ilya Gringolts - Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002 (Excerpts): V. Sarabande
24. Ilya Gringolts - Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (Excerpts): II. Loure
25. Ilya Gringolts - Pauset: Kontrapartita: V. Loure
26. Ilya Gringolts - Pauset: Kontrapartita: VI. Giga
27. Ilya Gringolts - Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (Excerpts): IV. Giga
28. Ilya Gringolts - Pauset: Kontrapartita: VII. Ciaccona
29. Ilya Gringolts - Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (Excerpts): V. Ciaccona



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