Ysaÿe Six Sonatas For Solo Violin

Description

This first recording by David Grimal for La Dolce Volta brings together the 6 Sonatas for solo violin by Eugène Ysaÿe, an extraordinary violinist who in his time played a role comparable to that of Niccolò Paganini. They constitute peaks of virtuosity that few violinists can contemplate tackling. The all-too-rare absolute fidelity to the text (and to Ysaÿe's very precise notations) as well as to its spirit deserves to be noted here. The maturity of the playing is fully realized, David Grimal having appropriated the very essence of each movement, with its architecture and its direction, its transcendent technique, always a humble and faithful servant of the work. The broadest palette, with renewed colors, accents, and dynamics, allows conferring a musical truth to this album recorded in July 2019. The emotion is indeed there, beyond the admiration for the mastery. For the violinist David Grimal, Eugène Ysaÿe is one of the landmark figures of the violin at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and a source of inspiration. He sees in this corpus "a testimony of a stupendous creative power that looks to the past, reflects the present, and offers itself to the future." Interpretations and explorations with David Grimal as a masterful servant of Ysaÿe.