Hagaï Shaham, Arnon Erez - Brahms/Joachim: Hungarian Dances - Joachim: Variations (2008)

Tracklist

01. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 1 in G Minor. Allegro molto
02. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 2 in D Minor. Allegro non assai
03. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 3 in F Major. Allegretto
04. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 4 in B Minor. Poco sostenuto
05. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 5 in G Minor. Allegro
06. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 6 in B-Flat Major. Vivace
07. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 7 in A Major. Allegretto
08. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 8 in A Minor. Presto
09. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 9 in E Minor. Allegro non troppo
10. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 10 in G Major. Presto
11. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 11 in D Minor. Poco andante
12. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 12 in D Minor. Presto
13. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 13 in D Major. Andantino grazioso
14. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 14 in D Minor. Un poco andante
15. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 15 in A Major. Allegretto grazioso
16. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 16 in G Minor. Con moto
17. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 17 in F-Sharp Minor. Andantino
18. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 18 in D Major. Molto vivace
19. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 19 in A Minor. Allegretto
20. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 20 in D Minor. Poco allegretto
21. Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. Joachim for Violin & Piano): No. 21 in E Minor. Vivace
22. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Introduction. Allegretto
23. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Theme
24. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 1
25. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 2
26. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 3
27. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 4. Un pochettino più vivo
28. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 5
29. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 6
30. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 7
31. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 8
32. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 9
33. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 10
34. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 11
35. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 12
36. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 13. Poco animato
37. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 14
38. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 15. Molto più moderato (Andantino)
39. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 16. Quasi doppio (Allegro)
40. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 17. Vivace
41. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Var. 18
42. Joachim: Variations in E Minor (Version for Violin & Piano): Finale. Allegro marcato – Poco animato

The forty-year friendship between Brahms and Joseph Joachim, violinist and composer, was one of the most significant and fruitful relationships in nineteenth-century music. Their admiration of each other’s artistry was profound and unwavering, and bore sustained creative fruit on Brahms’s side of which his Violin Concerto and Double Concerto are only the most famous examples.

Joachim’s transcriptions of Brahms’s famous Hungarian Dances—originally written for piano duet or solo piano—are technically challenging for any violinist, and superbly idiomatic, constituting a kind of gypsy ‘Art of the Violin’. They represent the summit of Brahms’s ‘Hungarian’ art, and Joachim’s powers of transcription match them with violin writing of the greatest fastidiousness and authentic feeling. The brilliant Hagai Shaham, acclaimed for his recordings of Hubay, is the ideal performer.

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