Aurelia Visovan

Lina Tur Bonet & Aurelia Vişovan – Beethoven – Sonatina Lunatica (Violin Sonatas Nos. 9 & 10) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · May 26, 2023 · Comments off

Vienna. 1803: George Bridgetower, a violinist of Afro-European descent, caused a furore with his virtuosity and captivated Beethoven, who was fascinated by his unique and exotic character and wrote a hellishly difficult and magnificent sonata for him. Despite the enormous success of the premiere by Beethoven and Bridgetower, a clumsy remark by the violinist about a friend of the composer led to this famous sonata finally being dedicated to Rodolphe Kreutzer, by whom, however, it was never to be played because of its enormous difficulty. Ten years later Beethoven composed his next and last violin sonata, dedicated to Pierre Rode, in a completely different character, enormously poetic and introverted. Written in the phase of Beethoven’s life that is widely associated with his “Immortal Beloved”, the sonata nevertheless has the typical, incomparable energy. Described as a “fiery virtuoso” (The Strad), “soul violinist” (Sankei Shinbun) or “devil violinist” (Bayerischer Rundfunk), Lina Tur Bonet now joins forces with Aurelia Visovan, who won the 2019 competition of the MA Festival in Bruges, to celebrate Beethoven’s anniversary with the recording of these sonatas. After intensive research, inspired by Clive Brown’s extensive research on the subject, among others, a daring and innovative version is offered, combining Beethoven’s fire, poetry and humour with the search for the authentic.

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Aurelia Visovan – Schubert & Czerny: Capriccio appassionato (Keyboard Sonatas) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 7, 2022 · Comments off

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Aurelia Vişovan is an internationally acclaimed Romanian pianist, harpsichordist and fortepianist, winner of the 2019 edition of the Musica Antiqua Competition Brugge (fortepiano). She regularly performs concerts and recitals on both historical instruments and modern piano, in halls such as the Großer Saal of the Berliner Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, BOZAR, Auditorio de Zaragoza, Brucknerhaus Linz, Die Glocke Bremen, Casa da Musica Porto, Musikverein Vienna, Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, and in festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Festivals de Wallonie, to name a few. She appeared as a soloist with the Philharmonisches Kammerorchester Dresden, the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Romanian Youth Orchestra, the Seto Philharmonic Orchestra, the Transylvania State Philharmonic, Das Sinfonieorchester Berlin, among others. In 2017 Aurelia Vișovan performed the World Premiere of the newly discovered Piano Concerto by George Enescu. She has recorded CDs both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, on period instruments and on modern piano, for the labels Ricercar, Berlin Classics, Passacaille, KNS Classical among others.
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Aurelia Visovan – Mozart, Hummel & Beethoven – Concerto, Sonate, Symphony (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 11, 2022 · Comments off

A pupil of Mozart, Johann Nepomuk Hummel was one of the most admired pianists of his era. His career began in Vienna at the time when Beethoven had just moved there. Like the latter, he belonged to that generation of composers whose output may be categorised somewhere between Classicism and burgeoning Romanticism. In addition to an extensive catalogue of original compositions, including piano works of high quality, Hummel also made numerous arrangements for chamber forces of orchestral compositions. Among these were the piano concertos of his teacher Mozart and the symphonies of his friend Beethoven, all of which he transcribed for piano, flute, violin and cello. The Romanian pianist Aurelia Visovan offers this particularly original programme for her album as winner of the 2019 Bruges MA Festival competition.

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