Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) & Joseph Joachim (1831-1907): The Complete recordings (1903-1904)
Sarasate is the violinist that holmes & watson see in concert in red headed league, playing the bach partita no.3 in e major prelude, which is at the beginning of this video- in fact this recording includes all of the pieces listed on the program
Joachim is the violinist whose performance holmes refers to in resident patient, tho the beethoven violin concerto is not on the recording
OTD in Music History: Pablo Martin Meliton de Sarasate y Navascues (1844 -1908) -- better known as Pablo Sarasate, or even just Sarasate -- is born in Spain.
A gifted composer, as well as a respected conductor, Sarasate is undoubtedly best known today as one of the very greatest violin virtuosos of the 19th Century.
Sarasate's most famous original works include his four volumes of "Spanish Dances" (1877 - 1882), the "Zigeunerweisen" ("Gypsy Airs") (1878), and the show-stopping "Carmen Fantasy" (1882) on themes taken from George Bizet's (1838 - 1875) famous opera, "Carmen" (1875) -- all of which still remain popular showpieces in the active violin repertoire.
Appraising Sarasate's unusually effective and highly idiomatic writing for his own instrument, British playwright and music critic George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) once declared that while there are many composers of music for the violin, there are very few composers of *violin music* -- and appraised Sarasate as a member of that rarified latter caste.
Of Sarasate's talents as a performer of his own works, Shaw also hastened to add that he "left all criticism gasping miles behind him."
PICTURED: A short autograph letter which the elderly Sarasate wrote to a friend just a few months before his death.
Concert review, ★★★½, Ning Feng, Xiaoming Wang, Nargiza Alimova @ Kulturhaus Helferei, Zurich, 2022-10-10 — Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No.3 in D minor, op.108; Richard Strauss: Violin Sonata in E♭ major, op.18; Pablo de Sarasate: "Navarra" for two violins and piano, op.33
Review of "Hilary Hahn: Eclipse," with the Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra on a DG Compact Disc
Hilary Hahn was probably born with a violin in her hand. Well, that’s close. She began playing the violin before she was four years old and made her concert stage debut at age eleven with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She has played with virtually every major symphony orchestra since then, recorded a number of albums (mostly for DG and Sony), and won an appropriate number of awards. So, yes, any new recording from her is a welcome event.
When you have a concert in a month and have no idea how to play the cadenza! There should hopefully be another Oppie ficlet out for you later this evening though 🩷