Bach,J.S. / Smirnov Violin Works CD

Russian violinist Dmitry Smirnov's d?but recording on FHR features works by master baroque composer (J.S. Bach), a leading figure of 20th century music (B?la Bart?k) and a wonderful newly discovered work by influential Swiss violinist Hansheinz Schneeberger who died in 2019. The Schneeberger Sonata, written two years before Bart?k's Sonata, is a violin show piece, displaying much imagination in it's idiomatic and virtoustic violin writing - this is the first recording of the work. There are many connections that link these three works together - the Bart?k and Schneeberger sonatas show influences of Bach. Also, Bart?k's First Violin Concerto was premi?red by Schneeberger. On this album Smirnov plays a modern violin made by Philipp Bonhoeffer (Bart?k and Schneeberger) and a 1795 Johann Sch?nfelder violin (Bach).