Hilary Hahn – Eclipse (2022) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Hilary Hahn’s most personal album to date was recorded immediately after lockdown. Featuring Dvořák’s and Ginastera’s Violin Concertos as well as Sarasate’s Carmen-Fantasy, the album was recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and Andrés Orozco-Estrada with the pieces chosen connected not only by the solo violin but by the idea that each composer maintained a connection to some musical-geographical center, despite long periods away from their homes.For this new recording made immediately after the lockdown period, American violinist Hilary Hahn offers up a truly original programme—just how she likes it. One surprise is the inclusion of Alberto Ginastera’s (1916-1983) Violin Concerto, Op. 30. Despite being a major Argentine composer during the twentieth-century, Ginastera’s work has been sorely under-promoted. His flamboyant, personal masterpieces are written for orchestra, piano and even the stage (e.g. Bomarzo).

Ginastera intially stands out for his ‘sublimation’ of traditional South American heritage. In every corner of his writing, he incorporates Argentinean dance rhythms, with their very specific metres (tango, milonga, gato, etc.), and applies them to an inventive and uniquely personal orchestration. The Argentinean’s orchestra was an instant hit, and it has maintained its powerful sonic singularity ever since. In the early 1960s, Ginastera’s style would become more radical as he increasingly incorporated serialist elements. The Violin Concerto dates back to this period (1963), by which time his musical language had become more sophisticated. It is surprising to note that his major concertante works (the First Piano Concerto and First Cello Concerto) were written during the 1960s: a period of intense experimentation.

In its three free-form movements, the Violin Concerto remains a challenging work both for the soloist and the orchestra. It begins with a large cadenza for the soloist and follows with a series of six ‘studii’, which each focus upon particular facets of violin playing (chords, thirds, etc.)—as if Chopin or Paganini had released their material a century later but had fleshed them out with similarly rich and colourful orchestral textures. The second movement – an Adagio per 22 solisti, fairly typical of Ginastera’s writing for solo strings – brings about a lull within the overall structure, before we enter a two-part Scherzo. This final movement ends with a Perpetuum mobile: an extremely virtuosic moment, the agitated and hallucinating tone of which is aptly inhabited by Hilary Hahn. A brilliant moment on the record.

It is surprising then to hear Sarasate’s Fantasia-Carmen – a truly disturbing contrast, but one which brings us back to a more radiant 19th century. This period is equally celebrated through the incorporation of Antonín Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, which is now being performed more and more often by 21st century violinists. In the Dvořák, Hahn and Orozco-Estrada are more sensitive to the work’s flowing form than to its pastoral or lyrical character.

An absolutely fascinating album, in any case. Pierre-Yves Lascar

Tracklist:

1-1. Hilary Hahn – I. Allegro ma non troppo (12:11)
1-2. Hilary Hahn – II. Adagio ma non troppo (10:23)
1-3. Hilary Hahn – III. Finale. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo (10:47)
1-4. Hilary Hahn – Ia. Cadenza (05:23)
1-5. Hilary Hahn – Ib. Studio I – Per gli accordi. Allegro (01:23)
1-6. Hilary Hahn – Ic. Studio II – Per le terze. Allegretto (00:55)
1-7. Hilary Hahn – Id. Studio III – Per gli altri intervalli. Lo stesso tempo (00:48)
1-8. Hilary Hahn – Ie. Studio IV – Per l’arpeggiato. Lo stesso tempo (00:51)
1-9. Hilary Hahn – If. Studio V – Per gli armonici. Andante (02:14)
1-10. Hilary Hahn – Ig. Studio VI – Per i 24 quarti di tono. Larghissimo (01:12)
1-11. Hilary Hahn – Ih. Coda. Maestoso (01:02)
1-12. Hilary Hahn – II. Adagio per 22 solisti (09:45)
1-13. Hilary Hahn – IIIa. Scherzo pianissimo. Sempre volante, misterioso e appena sensibile (04:28)
1-14. Hilary Hahn – IIIb. Perpetuum mobile. Agitato ed allucinante (01:56)
1-15. Hilary Hahn – Introduction. Allegro moderato (03:13)
1-16. Hilary Hahn – I. Moderato (03:14)
1-17. Hilary Hahn – II. Lento assai (02:39)
1-18. Hilary Hahn – III. Allegro moderato (02:08)
1-19. Hilary Hahn – IV. Moderato (02:48)

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