Einfühlsamst accompanied by Ohad Ben-Ari (pianist, conductor, arranger, composer; the two since teenage times music already together) brings Guy Braunstein addition to its own arrangements for violin and piano include those of Joseph Joachim, Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz hearing, as a reference to his role models Mischa Elman, Nathan Milstein, David Oistrakh and others; as well as a sign of devotion to his most important teacher and mentor, Chaim Taub, former concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Braunstein: "Most of the pieces recorded here, I have worked with him."
Braunstein plays fantastically violin solo as a team, extremely versatile, expressive, subtly, from delicate 'strung' to impulsively expressive. Virtuosity is for him never 'Schau' game, probably' Hör' game interpretation pure, even the most difficult double handle pass Say advised him to seemingly polyphonic string sound, sometimes elegant, sometimes opulent, always with unbridled lust, music feelingly from to transfer out in the listeners mind. And if he succeeds, the! So you know him from the concert hall, so you can hear it on this beautiful CD. Wonderful and deeply touching!
01. Nigun (Ernst Bloch)
02. Hungarian Dance No. 17 (Johannes Brahms)
03. Hungarian Dance No. 2 (Johannes Brahms)
04. Slavonian Dance (Anton Dvorák)
05. La Folia (Arcangelo Corelli)
06 Lensky's Aria From Evegeny Onegin (Peter Tchaikovsky)
07. Melody in E-flat (Peter Tchaikovsky)
08. Hebrew Melody (Josef Achron)
09. Poeme (Ernest Chausson)
10. Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (Camille Saint-Saens)
11. Humoresque (Anton Dvorák)
PS:
One should Guy Braunstein and his multi-faceted, deeply touching Violin game just once immediately experience *), the small concert hall, in a recital, the great atmosphere, for example with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, as violinist, conductor, or as 1st concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker, with chamber music friends, in his Festival (Rolandseck) or in the Collegiate Church (Olsberg CH) during S'OLsberg festival with Sol Gabetta - no matter where Guy Braunstein makes music, he always plays out wholeheartedly and with depths of his soul, a incredibly versatile and pleasant modest, likeable thoroughbred musicians, like close its naturalness listeners at once in her heart.
*) ... Or just enjoy this CD!
