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Poème - Works for violin & piano
César Franck - Eugène Ysaÿe

Poème - Works for violin & piano

Lisa Jacobs / Ksenia Kouzmenko

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917262407
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Catalog number: CC 72624
Releasedate: 29-11-13
Violinworks by Eugène Ysaye and César Franck with the young dutch violin virtuoso Lisa Jacobs. Fabulously rich and evocative music: Poème Elégiaque op. 12, Extase op. 21 and the Sonata in A major which was composed as a wedding present for Ysaÿe.
Lisa Jacobs has performed these works in many of her concerts, since she was acquainted to those at the age of sixteen.
 
  • Violinworks by Eugène Ysaye and César Franck
  • Fabulously rich and evocative music
  • With the young dutch violin virtuoso Lisa Jacobs
  • Lisa Jacobs is winner of the 2nd prize in the International Jascha Heifetz Violin Competition in Lithuania 2005 and has followed masterclasses with Thomas Brandis, Julian Rachlin, Philip Graffin and Maxim Vengerov
The violin works on this CD have a particularly relation to each other. The CD opens with Ysaÿe’s Poème Elégiaque op. 12: the name is derived from the middle section of the piece, which depicts a passing funeral procession accompanied by tolling bells. It was ultimately also played at Ysaÿe’s own funeral. Extase op. 21 reveals the expressivity and depth of his sound idiom, once again demonstrating his tone-painting ability. The CD concludes with César Franck’s Sonata in A major which was composed as a wedding present for Eugène Ysaye. The young violinist Lisa Jacobs has performed these works in many of her concerts, since she was acquainted to those at the age of sixteen.
 
Dutch violin virtuoso Lisa Jacobs started playing the violin at the age of 6. She was accepted in the Young Talent class of the Utrecht Conservatory and continued studying with Ilya Grubert at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, At the age of only 17, Lisa made her successful debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Riccardo Chailly.

Lisa Jacobs has won several first prizes in both national and international competitions, one of them being at the 2nd International Jascha Heifetz Violin Competition in Lithuania 2005, where she received the Audience prize as well. Lisa has followed masterclasses with Thomas Brandis, Julian Rachlin, Philip Graffin and Maxim Vengerov, which was broadcasted on Dutch television.