EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934)

The Violin Music – Violin Concerto, Violin Sonata, Miniatures

CD 1: Violin Concerto in B minor, Serenade for Strings

CD 2: Romance, Mazurka, Bizarrerie, Serenade, Idylle, Chanson de matin, Chanson de nuit, La capricieuse, Gavotte, Salut d’amour, Etude-caprice, May Song, Virelai, In Hammersbach, Carissima, Adieu, Etudes caractéristiques pour violon seul

CD 3: Elévation, Pastourelle, Bavarian Dances Nos. 1 and 3, Sospiri, Petite Reine – Berceuse, Polonaise in D minor, Dreaming, Mot d’amour, Valse on Themes by Elgar (completed by Christopher Polyblank), Reminiscences, Interlude from ‘The Crown of India’, Allegretto: Duet on a theme of GEDGE, Violin Sonata in E minor, Fugue for Violin and Oboe

Marat Bisengaliev, Violin;

Benjamin Frith, Piano;

Camilla Bisengalieva, Oboe

West KazakhstanPhilharmonic Orchestra / Bundit Ungrangsee

A comprehensive collection of Elgar’s Violin Music on 3 CDs, featuring Marat Bisengaliev as soloist.

For more than two decades before he achieved fame and financial security as England’s foremost composer, the young Edward Elgar earned a living as a violinist and violin teacher. Beside such evergreens as Sospiri, Chansons de Matin and de Nuit, Salut d’amour and his substantial Violin Sonata and Concerto, this Naxos anthology includes a treasury of lesser-known works, both charming salon pieces and astonishingly demanding études.

“Bisengaliev is a sensational player of intense musicality and tonal splendour. He delights in the nostalgia and demand of these pieces, bringing them glowingly alive, finding depth where others see only charm.” BBC Music Magazine

Naxos 3cds 8572643-45