EUGËNE YSAŸE : SIX SONATAS FOR SOLO VIOLIN OP.27 Arisa Fujita, violin
	IMCD 092 Producer: Andrew Keener Balance Engineer Simon Eadon Recorded on 3 - 5 January 2003 at Wathen Hall, St. Paul's School, London, U.K.
Eugëne Ysaÿe (1858 - 1931) Six Sonats for Solo Violin Op 27 Sonata No. 1 in G minor Sonata No. 2 in A minor Sonata No. 3 in D minor Sonata No. 4 in E minor Sonata No. 5 in G major Sonata No. 6 in E major total time: 67'55	Arisa Fujita, violin From the booklet : The six Sonatas for solo violin Op.27 were composed in 1923 and published the following year. Inspired by a moving performance of a Bach unaccompanied Sonata by Joseph Szigeti, all six of Ysa�e s Sonatas were sketched in twenty-four hours and within a few days were ready for publication. Each of the Sonatas was dedicated to a different violinist all of whom were his close friends or colleagues, including Szigeti to whom Ysa�e dedicated the first sonata. He also paid tribute to Bach in the way his work resembles the form of the Six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin and by characterizing some of his own movements with titles from the Partitas. Ysa�e was a passionate man giving fully of himself both in his playing and teaching. On the other hand he was also deeply sensitive and inward-looking, even melancholy at times, and these aspects of his personality were plainly expressed in his compositions. At first glance one is struck by the technical demands and violinistic innovations of the Sonatas but close familiarization reveals a deeply-felt creativity, with the personalities of each of his dedicatees and his own life experiences spontaneously woven into a work of great imagination  all this through the medium of a single violin. © Arisa Fujita 2004
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