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1 Saint- Saens: Son. #1/ Violin & Piano/ Dm,Op 75: 1  
2 Saint- Saens: Son. #1/ Violin & Piano/ Dm,Op 75: 2  
3 Saint- Saens: Son. #1/ Violin & Piano/ Dm,Op 75: 3  
4 Saint- Saens: Son. #1/ Violin & Piano/ Dm,Op 75: 4  
5 Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major: 1  
6 Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major: 2  
7 Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major: 3  
8 Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major: 4  
9 Ravel: Sonata / Violin & Piano: 1  
10 Ravel: Sonata / Violin & Piano: 2  
11 Ravel: Sonata / Violin & Piano: 3  
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French Impressions, Joshua Bell's first recital program for Sony Classical features the Grammy Award-winning violinist and his longtime friend and recital partner, pianist Jeremy Denk, offering a passionately nuanced interpretation of works by Saint-Saens, Ravel and Franck. When Bell and Denk performed Saint-Saens Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor during their 2010 recital tour, the New York Times raved "Mr. Bell and Mr. Denk gave a passionate performanceThere were plenty of fireworks in the whirlwind of the concluding movement." Each of the sonatas features romantic moments which traverse lyrical sweetness to urgent drama and reveal enchantingly complex and challenging layers of sound. Franck's Violin Sonata in A Major, written at the height of the French Bell Epoque, is a work of uncommon beauty and expressive elegance. The oldest of the French composers on the CD, Franck was born in Belgium in 1822, but it was in Paris where he became a citizen and made his career as a composer and teacher at the Paris Conservatoire. Franck's attention to instrumental music rather than opera made him an influential musical force in his country, with his sonata being regarded as an important component of French chamber repertoire.

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  • Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk illuminate Mozart and Beethoven at Rockport benefit-gala / The Boston Musical Intelligencer
    Posted At: July 30, 2024
    The Boston Musical Intelligencer's Stephanie Oestreich writes….Rockport Music’s benefit-gala showcased an exquisite pairing of virtuosity and subtlety, featuring violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Jeremy Denk. Their performances of Mozart’s Piano and Violin Sonata No. 18 in G Major, K. 301, and Beethoven’s Piano and Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 shared interpretative originality beyond the expected ...

  • Jeremy Denk w/Academy of St Martin in the Fields gives outstanding concert at Arsht Center / South Florida Classical Review
    Posted At: February 25, 2019

    The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is one of the world's finest chamber orchestras. Pianist Jeremy Denk is one of the most interpretively audacious and musically rigorous artists on the concert stage today. Put Denk and the London-based ensemble together and you have the formula for an outstanding concert. That is exactly what happened Saturday night when Denk and the Academy played at the Arsht ...

  • Jeremy Denk explores Beethoven's 'Emperor Concerto' with the SPCO / Listen live on MPR
    Posted At: September 8, 2018

    Alison Young will host a preconcert discussion before the opening night concert of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra season at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept 7, on the stage of the Ordway Concert Hall in St. Paul. Then she will host Classical MPR's live broadcast of the concert on Saturday, Sept. 8. Listen to Classical MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) at 11 a.m. every Friday for the SPCO Spotlight, too. Jeremy D...

  • Ian Bostridge and Jeremy Denk on Winterreise: Anatomy of an Obsession
    Posted At: August 26, 2018

    Acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk interviews British tenor Ian Bostridge, whose performances of Winterreise "haunt the imagination long after the notes have died away" (New York Magazine) and whose new book, Schubert's Winterreise: Anatomy of an Obsession, offers a personal examination of the song cycle's literary, historical and psychological themes. "He is not only a lyric tenor of uncanny focus and intens...

  • 2019 SCA - Great Performers Series will feature Anderson and Roe & Jeremy Denk / Sarasota Magazine
    Posted At: August 6, 2018

    Season subscription packages to the Sarasota Concert Association's 2019 Great Performers Series have been on sale for a while, but now single tickets are also available. Classical music lovers have the opportunity to hear six different concerts this season, five of them at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall and one at Riverview Performing Arts Center. The association's Great Performers Series is now in i...

  • Jeremy Denk offers a pathway to the sublime in Hong Kong recital / South China Morning Post
    Posted At: June 4, 2018

    The piquant Jeremy Denk set himself a challenge in his recital at the University of Hong Kong by presenting an ambitious programme of solo piano works that explored the notion of profundity and whether it exists in music. His choice of pieces for his Hong Kong debut was notable for the fact they were written late in each composer's life and at a time of personal foreboding. However, while all of them sho...

  • Notes of Profundity - Jeremy Denk's debut Hong Kong recital
    Posted At: May 11, 2018

    Jeremy Denk, one of America's foremost pianists, is giving his debut recital in Hong Kong! "Piquant, meaningful programmes have always been a hallmark of Jeremy Denk's recitals" reviewed The Guardian. Being the winner of the MacArthur ‘Genius' Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize, Denk strives to enliven the ‘standard' classical concert experience into thought-provoking intellectual dial...

  • After 33 Carnegie performances, this year's Isaac Stern Memorial Concert marks Joshua Bell's debut on WQXR's Carnegie Hall Live
    Posted At: February 22, 2018

    Wednesday night Feb 7, 2018 at Carnegie Hall, brought the annual Isaac Stern Memorial Concert, paying tribute to the man who, more than anyone else, saved Carnegie Hall from the wrecking ball of urban "renewal" and who served as its first and only president. Less it be forgot, Stern was also a pretty damn good fiddle player with a unique and longterm public profile, and the honoring of his legacy fell to...

  • Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk return for Carnegie Hall's annual Isaac Stern Memorial Concert / BroadwayWorld
    Posted At: January 18, 2018

    World-renowned violinist Joshua Bell and MacArthur "Genius" winning pianist Jeremy Denk return to Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Wednesday, February 7 at 8:00 p.m. for Carnegie Hall's annual Isaac Stern Memorial Concert, playing music by Mozart, Schubert, Janácek, and Richard Strauss. Longtime collaborators, the duo last performed together in recital in 2010, which The New York Times des...

  • This week with Jeremy Denk / San Francisco Classical Voice interview
    Posted At: November 4, 2014

    The promo for Jeremy Denk's upcoming recital at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis lists his bona fides as: MacArthur "Genius," blogger, Musical America's 2014 Instrumentalist of the Year. Not too shabby. You'd assume that the whole genius thing just takes care of itself. But how does Denk manage a more or less nonstop concertizing schedule, writing essays and...

  • Joshua Bell & Jeremy Denk offer a passionately nuanced interpretation of works by Saint-Saens, Ravel and Franck on: French Impressions
    Posted At: December 13, 2011

    On JOSHUA BELL's new album, FRENCH IMPRESSIONS, Grammy-award-winning violinist Bell and his longtime friend and recital partner, pianist Jeremy Denk offer a passionately nuanced interpretation of works by Saint-Saens, Ravel and Franck.  French Impressions boasts a number of milestones: it's Bell's first CD of sonatas since joining Sony Classical in 1996; it is Be...
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