The pieces I chose for this disc form a very interesting series of short violin compositions and violin arrangements of piano and vocal works from various periods, small steps through time, starting in the baroque and arriving to the very contemporary, spanning much of the instrument’s history while demonstrating its many rich possibilities.
The program demonstrates violin “talking”, singing, also exporing all its virtuoso sides (like in the Kochanski’s arrangement of La Campanella) Meanwhile, in the opera and song arrangements, I hope to show the extent to which the violin can mimic the human voice, Paganini’s famous “suonar parlante”.
