Alina Ibragimova

Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Vierne & Franck: Violin Sonatas (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 22, 2023 · Comments off

The Franck sonata—one of the best-loved works in the entire Romantic violin repertoire—is one of a trio of delectable Franco-Belgian treats on offer from the acclaimed pair. A bonne bouche from Lili Boulanger completes a particularly enticing recital.

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Alina Ibragimova – Telemann: Fantasias for Solo Violin (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Telemann may have written his twelve fantasias for the amateur market, but he would surely have rejoiced to hear such superlative performances as these. Alina Ibragimova again demonstrates just what can be accomplished on the four strings of a solo violin.

‘You are come here fifty years too late.’

With these words C P E Bach greeted the English traveller, chronicler and music historian Charles Burney upon the latter’s arrival in Hamburg in October 1772. Observing first-hand the sorry state of musical activity in the city during his visit, Burney would soon come to agree. But what had he missed, fifty years before? What was this golden age of musical life in Hamburg, earlier in the century?

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Alina Ibragimova – Mendelssohn: Complete Violin Sonatas (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Mendelssohn may have published only one violin sonata (the early Op 4), but that does not signify any lack of inspiration in the others—left in manuscript. The F major sonata which opens this programme is a particularly substantial and ambitious work.

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Alina Ibragimova – Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos & The Hebrides (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The young violinist Alina Ibragimova is already established as an admired recording artist, standing alongside great artists of the past and present with her versions of Bach and Beethoven’s violin works. She appears on this latest release with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Vladimir Jurowski (in his Hyperion premiere) in a programme which includes a classic of the concerto repertoire: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64. Ibragimova’s is a glittering, knife-edge performance, her playing a portrayal in itself of the music’s passion held in control through exquisite craft. The Violin Concerto in D minor—an unusual and welcome pairing—is an early work, written when the composer was only thirteen. As with Mendelssohn’s other juvenile works it is extraordinarily accomplished and exceedingly charming.

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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Violin Sonatas K305, 376 & 402 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The earliest music here dates from when Mozart was just six years old, the latest from his rst years as a freelance composer resident in Vienna. The distinguished advocacy of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, in a second volume of the complete violin sonatas, is equally persuasive in both.

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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Mozart: Violin Sonatas K301, 304, 379 & 481 (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Mozart’s violin sonatas span his entire career—the early ones are billed as piano sonatas with optional violin accompaniment—and they develop over the years into the first triumphs of the modern genre. Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien have been enthralling audiences worldwide with these works, and now the first instalment is available as a highly desirable 2-for-1 album.

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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Schubert: Complete works for violin and piano (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The luminous partnership of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien returns to Hyperion for this double album containing Schubert’s complete music for violin and piano. Their intelligence and technical prowess, their seamless and intimate connection as performers and their profound understanding of the music combine in magical performances.

While still in his teens, Schubert wrote four works for violin and piano that could have been given the label ‘sonata’, yet none of the four was published with that title. The first three, completed in 1816, bear instead the designation of ‘Sonatina’, perhaps to appeal to the amateur market. But these are highly accomplished works by the teenage composer and there is little ‘domestic’ feeling in the extended, mysterious unravellings of D385 which hint at compositions yet to come.

The later Violin Sonata in A major, D574 (now described as a ‘Duo’), urges the violinist on to greater virtuosic feats, and the Rondo in B minor even more so, with the piano sometimes treated as a surrogate orchestra. The extensive Fantasy in C major, written in the last year of Schubert’s life, is a masterpiece: the composer’s greatest achievement in this genre, which combines poignancy with sheer joy in life itself.

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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Mozart: Violin Sonatas K303, 377, 378 & 403 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 9, 2022 · Comments off

This is a series which continues to redefine the standards by which these works should be performed. As before, the music spans most of Mozart’s life, from 1763—when he was just seven years old—to 1782, and (another) unfinished present written for his new wife Constanze.

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Alina Ibragimova, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen – Bach, J.S. – Violin Concertos (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alina Ibragimova, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen - Bach, J.S. - Violin Concertos (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Alina Ibragimova, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen – Bach, J.S. – Violin Concertos (2015)
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Recorded 8-10 August 2014, the collection of violin concertos assembled by conductor Cohen and Alina Ibragimova (b. 1985) – playing a splendid-toned 1738 Guarnerius – constitute both original compositions and some reconstructions. Recent scholarship attributes the familiar a minor and E Major Concerto to c. 1730, when Bach had assumed leadership of Telemann’s Leipzig Collegium Musicum. Antonio Vivaldi had instituted a mania for concertos of all sorts in the 1720s, and Bach seized the ritornello forms of the Italian master and concerted them to his own (Teutonic) usage. The outer movements of BWV 1041 retain the energetic, contrapuntal style that elaborates on a dance motif, while the C Major Andante unfolds an extended cantilena over a persistent bass line here rendered somewhat in the manner of a mandolin sonority. The finale, Allegro assai, proffers a 9/8 gigue that sounds quite Italianate, in a bravura style that crosses the string lines. Ibragimova’s sound, wiry and penetrating, has dazzling support from conductor Cohen and his lithe ensemble, the keen resonance provided – here and throughut – courtesy of Recording Engineer David Hinitt.
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Alina Ibragimova, Vladimir Jurowski – Shostakovich: Violin Concertos (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alina Ibragimova, Vladimir Jurowski - Shostakovich: Violin Concertos (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

The prospect of hearing Alina Ibragimova in two of the most important concertos written for the violin is in itself irresistibly enticing, but Shostakovich aﬁcionados will also welcome an opportunity to hear the rarely performed original opening to the Burlesque of No 1, subsequently made less fearsome for the soloist at the request of the work’s dedicatee, David Oistrakh.
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Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas; Five Melodies (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne - Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas; Five Melodies (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas; Five Melodies (2014)
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Hyperion is delighted to present a special collaboration already an extraordinary force on the concert platform in its first appearance on record. Alina Ibragimova and Steven Osborne are musicians of searing, uncompromising intelligence and intense feeling. In his works for the violin, Prokofiev produced some of his most personal and expressive music. Both of his Violin Sonatas were written for David Oistrakh. The first was begun against the backdrop of Stalin’s Great Terror, and one senses that he drew his inspiration from the uncharacteristically dark wells of fear, despair and bereavement which were the lot of Prokofiev and his contemporaries. The Violin Sonata No.2 is of a very different character generally sunny and carefree, though still with occasional fleeting shadows. In its original form it was a Flute Sonata, Op 94, which Prokofiev had completed in 1943. At David Oistrakh’s suggestion and with his assistance, Prokofiev transcribed the work.
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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Mozart: Violin Sonatas K296, 306, 454 & 547 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien - Mozart: Violin Sonatas K296, 306, 454 & 547 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Mozart: Violin Sonatas K296, 306, 454 & 547 (2015)
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The third of the ongoing series from the ‘nigh-on ideal’ partnership (Gramophone) of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien. As before, the programme mixes the early—two works by the precocious ten-year-old—with the mature, and includes Mozart’s final violin sonata.
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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Mozart: Violin Sonatas K302, 380 & 526 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien - Mozart: Violin Sonatas K302, 380 & 526 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

The fifth and final instalment of this landmark series cements both artists’ reputations as two of the leading Mozartians performing today.
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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Brahms: Violin Sonatas (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien - Brahms: Violin Sonatas (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Matchless accounts of Brahms at his most lyrically reflective, plus a benedictory encore by Clara Schumann: this is another outstanding release from today’s pre-eminent violin and piano partnership.
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Alina Ibragimova – Paganini: 24 Caprices (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alina Ibragimova - Paganini: 24 Caprices (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

The transcendental heroics of Paganini’s Caprices have presented the ultimate test for generations of violinists; Alina Ibragimova’s accounts of this most exclusive repertoire join a select few of the most celebrated.
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