Pablo de Sarasate
Pablo de Sarasate was born Pablo Martin Melton Sarasate y Navascuez, the son of a local military bandmaster in the Spanish town of Pamplona, where each July brings the Fiesta de San Fermín and its notorious "running of the bulls." Sarasate demonstrated musical talent very early and began violin lessons at age five. Making his concert debut at eight, Sarasate went to Madrid to study with violinist Manuel Rodriguez Sáez. The boy proved a sensation at the court of Queen Isabel II.
When Sarasate was 12, he and his mother set out for Paris on a journey meant to advance his skills on the violin. But the mother expired of a heart attack on the train en route, and Sarasate himself was diagnosed with cholera. Upon recovery, Sarasate was sent on to Paris; finally he auditioned successfully for Jean-Delphin Alard, violin instructor at the Paris Conservatoire. After five years of study with Alard, Sarasate won the Conservatoire's annual first prize. Thus was launched one of the most exciting and enduring violin careers of the nineteenth century.
Beginning in 1859, Sarasate embarked on a world tour that ran, more or less continuously, for three decades. During a tour of the United States, American artist James McNeill Whistler painted a famous portrait of Sarasate entitled Arrangements in Black. His first appearance in Britain was received with indifference, but a return visit in 1874 yielded better results, and composer Alexander Mackenzie composed a violin concerto for Sarasate that was heard at the Birmingham Festival of 1885. He even became a star in Germany and Austria, where his easy virtuosity might have seemed out of step with German music's more cerebral mainstream. Several of the works written for Sarasate have become staples of violin repertoire, including Lalo's Symphonie espagnole and F minor Concerto, Saint-Saëns' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and his First and Third Violin Concerti, Bruch's Second Violin Concerto and the Scottish Fantasy.
Of Sarasate's 57 known compositions, many of which served him well in his own concerts, the majority have been forgotten; they were fashioned in a style that reached little beyond its own time. The Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20, remain an indispensable item in the violinist's repertory, however, and his splashy Spanish Dances, Opp. 21-23 and 26, still furnish enjoyable diversions in the course of many a violin recital. Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25 is likewise a violin standard, and suggests Sarasate's role in transmitting Spanish idioms to greater Europe. Sarasate was not a mainstream Romantic virtuoso in the mold of Joseph Joachim and did not play the Brahms concerto; he played with a lighter touch, and preferred lighter fare.
Sarasate made nine phonograph records in 1904, when he was 60. It is easy to hear from them what made Sarasate such an exciting performer; four decades as a touring concert artist had dimmed his powers very little. Though Sarasate had basically retired to a villa in the seacoast town of Biarritz, France, by 1890, he continued keep his chops up, and performed at the Fiesta de San Fermín every year in his hometown of Pamplona. At his death from bronchitis in 1908 at age 64, Sarasate was in possession of two Stradivarius violins; one was bequeathed to the Paris Conservatoire, and the other the Conservatory of Madrid. The remainder of Sarasate's possessions was left to Pamplona, which has erected a museum in his memory.
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Mozart & Beethoven: Works for Violin
Ji Won Song, Jose Gallardo, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Fritz Kreisler, Pablo de Sarasate
Classique - Paru chez Rondeau Production le 27 avr. 2018
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Obras Completas (Remastered)
Classique - Paru chez Master Tape Records le 11 oct. 2019
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The Legendary Violinist David Nadien, Vol. 2
Classique - Paru chez Cembal d'amour CD 117 le 1 janv. 2002
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Paganini Violin Spectaculars
Classique - Paru chez Cobra Entertainment LLC le 15 avr. 2016
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Sarasate by Kaplan
Classique - Paru chez Arabesque Recordings le 1 janv. 1990
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Cello In Classic
Classique - Paru chez Bomba-Piter le 1 janv. 2007
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30 Must-Have Spanish Classics
Classique - Paru chez Cobra Entertainment LLC le 21 mai 2013
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Cello in Classic
Classique - Paru chez Bomba-Piter le 13 nov. 2015
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The Romantic Violin of Denes Zsigmondy
Vienna Kolonaden Orchestra, Denes Zsigmondy
Classique - Paru chez Tuxedo Music le 23 mai 2013
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The Great Violinists, Vol. 21 (1904-1915) (Johann Sebastian Bach - Pablo de Sarasate - Fryderyk Chopin)
Classique - Paru chez Symposium le 13 sept. 2004
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Encore!
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, Misha Rachlevsky
Classique - Paru chez Claves Records le 1 janv. 1995
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Sarasate: Nocturne-Serenade for Violin and Piano, Op. 45 (Digitally Remastered)
Oliver Colbentson, Erich Appel
Classique - Paru chez EMG Classical le 9 déc. 2014
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NKB SP Selection No. 1, Self-composed Performance
Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Fritz Kreisler, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Pablo de Sarasate
Classique - Paru chez NKB Record le 25 août 2023
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Preludio
Pablo de Sarasate, Manuel Guillén
Musiques du monde - Paru chez Boileau Music le 28 sept. 2021
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Dancing Cheek to Cheek
Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, Pablo de Sarasate
Classique - Paru chez Music Manager le 17 nov. 2015
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Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs)
Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Victor Desarzens, Hans Grötzer
Classique - Paru chez Violet Hill Records le 6 juin 2012
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