Tabea Zimmermann: Solo I

Tabea Zimmermann

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When Max Reger and his chamber music are mentioned, music lovers immediately think of compositions for organ, lieder or the great piano variations. The fact that over the course of many years the composer created at regular intervals a considerable number of compositions for solo strings remains an insider tip. This was a genre which was considered relatively unimportant by the 19th century and was therefore forgotten.
At the young age of 26, in 1899, Reger started working with the baroque genre for the first time and created Four Sonatas for Solo Violin op. 42. Six years later followed the Seven Sonatas for Solo Violin op. 91, about which the composer wrote to the Heidelberg musical director Philipp Wolfram on the 5th September 1905, “I am well – how the violin players are, however, I don’t know!” Once again, between 1909 and 1912, Reger devoted himself to this type of chamber music and composed Preludes and Fugues for Solo Violin op. 117.

Tracklist

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1.
Op. 131d Nr. 1- Molto sostenuto
04:31
2.
Op. 131d Nr. 1- Vivace - Andantino - Vivace
03:34
3.
Op. 131d Nr. 1- Andante sostenuto
03:08
4.
Op. 131d Nr. 1- Molto vivace
01:14
5.
BWV1007- Prelude
02:12
6.
BWV1007- Allemande
03:51
7.
BWV1007- Courante
02:19
8.
BWV1007- Sarabande
02:14
9.
BWV1007- Menuet 1 - Menuet 2 - Menuet 1
03:03
10.
BWV1007- Gigue
01:37
11.
Op. 131d Nr. 2- Con moto (non troppo vivace)
02:36
12.
Op. 131d Nr. 2- Andante
03:42
13.
Op. 131d Nr. 2- Allegretto - Quasi meno mosso - Allegretto
01:42
14.
Op. 131d Nr. 2- Vivace
02:42
15.
BWV1008- Prelude
03:13
16.
BWV1008- Allemande
02:42
17.
BWV1008- Courante
02:00
18.
BWV1008- Sarabande
04:08
19.
BWV1008- Menuet 1 - Menuet 2 - Menuet 1
02:34
20.
BWV1008- Gigue
02:21
21.
Op. 131d Nr. 3- Moderato
03:32
22.
Op. 131d Nr. 3- Vivace
02:07
23.
Op. 131d Nr. 3- Adagio
03:04
24.
Op. 131d Nr. 3- Allegro vivace
01:32

Total time: 01:05:38

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MYR003

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Digital Converters

DAD AX24

Mastering Engineer

Stephan Cahen

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Stephan Cahen

Recording Engineer

Stephan Cahen

Recording location

Ev. Kirche Honrath,

Recording Software

Merging

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DSD64

Release DateMarch 18, 2016

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Positive Feedback

While separated by 10 years, these two recordings together offer all four of Bach’s Suites for Solo Cello arranged for viola, superbly performed by Tabea Zimmermann. In each album, the Bach Suites are separated by complementary works by contemporary composers. In Solo 1, Zimmermann has chosen the three Suites for Solo Viola by Max Reger. In Solo II, she gives us six pieces for viola from Signs, Games and Messages by György Kurtág. Both choices work very well contrasting, but not clashing, with the Bach Suites.

The Kurtág works I found intriguing, as much for their inherent beauty as for their intimacy. Among the pieces is “…eine Blume für Tabea…” (“A Flower for Tabea”), dedicated by Kurtág to Zimmermann after the untimely death of her husband. “There seems to be no beginning and no end in this piece. It requires the most delicate tones—mere suggestions, and then it’s already over, as if Kurtág had wanted to set the fleeting passage of time to music.” A friend of mine describes this work as “a haunting minute of two voices talking through time.” And it does play softly, so turn up the volume and do not miss this piece. It is treasurable.

Enjoy for the Reger and Kurtág works; they are well worth the journey. Treasure the album for her Bach. Altogether, a very nice album.

SACD.Net

Tabea Zimmermann’s playing is profound, sculptural, and woven with unpretentious zeal. The autumnal colors of her instrument (a 1980 Vatelot) surround rather than charm you, thereby revealing her musical discourse’s basic humanism, which makes this instrumental singing like suspended time, one that the music requires. Here is an admirable DSD recording from start to finish.

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