Artist: Alena Baeva, Vadym Kholodenko
Title: Fantasy
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Alpha Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 01:06:09
Total Size: 1.15 GB

Tracklist:

1. Fantasie in C Major, D. 934: I. Andante molto (3:13)
2. Fantasie in C Major, D. 934: II. Allegretto (5:15)
3. Fantasie in C Major, D. 934: III. Andantino (11:10)
4. Fantasie in C Major, D. 934: IV. Allegro vivace (2:50)
5. Fantasie in C Major, D. 934: V. Allegretto (1:11)
6. Fantasie in C Major, D. 934: VI. Presto (0:41)
7. Le Baiser de la fée, K. 049, Divertimento (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Samuel Duskin): I. Sinfonia (6:04)
8. Le Baiser de la fée, K. 049, Divertimento (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Samuel Duskin): II. Danses suisses (4:10)
9. Le Baiser de la fée, K. 049, Divertimento (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Samuel Duskin): III. Scherzo (2:56)
10. Le Baiser de la fée, K. 049, Divertimento (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Samuel Duskin): IV. (a) Pas de deux. Adagio (2:59)
11. Le Baiser de la fée, K. 049, Divertimento (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Samuel Duskin): V. (b) Pas de deux. Variation (1:12)
12. Le Baiser de la fée, K. 049, Divertimento (Arr. for Violin and Piano): VI. (c) Pas de deux. Coda (2:09)
13. Märchenbilder, Op. 113: I. Nicht schnell (3:30)
14. Märchenbilder, Op. 113: II. Lebhaf (4:03)
15. Märchenbilder, Op. 113: III. Rasch (2:35)
16. Märchenbilder, Op. 113: IV. Langsam (5:05)
17. Fantaisie (7:10)

Violinist Alena Baeva joins Alpha Classics for several recordings, starting with an album of chamber music with pianist Vadym Kholodenko, her favourite partner. Together they offer an eclectic and unusual programme of Schubert's fearsome and magnificent Fantasy for violin and piano , composed a year before his death... This is followed by Stravinsky's joyous and boisterous miniatures in a collection entitled Divertimento , proposed as an abridgement of the ballet Le Baiser de la fée ( The Fairy's Kiss ). Olivier Messiaen composed a Fantaisie for his first wife, the violinist Claire Delbos, but the work was not published until 2007. Die Märchenbilder by Schumann complete the programme. Initially a pupil at the Moscow Conservatory, Alena Baeva later left Russia and was taught by Shlomo Mintz, Mstislav Rostropovich, Boris Garlitsky and Seiji Ozawa. At just 16, she won the Grand Prize in the Henryk Wieniawski International Competition, and many other prizes followed. Alena Baeva plays the Guarneri del Gesù "ex-William Kroll" of 1738. Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko was awarded the Van Cliburn Gold Medal in 2013.