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Hank Zauderer is a violinist and an artist. He regularly hosts an evening classical music program at NPR radio station KUSP in Santa Cruz, California. In the past he was a member of several symphony orchestras and chamber music groups. In particular, he loves the study of great composers and feels that music composition so often reflects the key events that took place in a composer's life.
Hank's taste includes the old Gregorian Chants and related religious works as well as music of the Baroque, Classical, and the Romantic period. Some of his favorites include Mahler, Edward Elgar, Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, and Benjamin Britten.
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Fischer plays Schubert!
Posted: Saturday | 05.01.10
Schubert: Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 2
Released April 2010
The surprise in this CD is the fact that beyond being a wonderful violinist, Julia Fischer is also a pianist! In Volume 1 of the Complete Works for Violin, we heard Ms. Fischer playing the three Sonatinas; as such in Volume 2, she provides the following program:
Schubert:
What makes these works so special is Schubert’s depth of feeling cloaked behind simplicity of expression. We do not get the kind of technical challenges in this music as Beethoven requires in his violin and piano sonatas. However, there is plenty of challenge to express feeling. Ms. Fischer and pianist Martin Helmchen do a nice job of presenting this music to us.
There are many recordings of the Fantasie for piano duo, including the one I know best with Kissin and James Levine. This fischer rendition is satisfying, but I did not find it memorable, as such. There is a lot of pathos in this music, and a lot of sadness that Schubert was expressing in this work. The performance captures some of this emotion, yet not in a way that caused me, as the listener, to be riveted by it.
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