Utwory na płycie:

• Hora Bessarabia
• Cleopatra
• Through the Fog
• Sonata No 6
• Passacaglia in G minor
• Caprice No 10
• Caprice No 24
• Recitativo & Scherzo - Caprice
• My Dear Bessie

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber:
Passacaglia in G minor, C.105

Niccolo Paganini:
Caprice No. 10 in G minor, Op. 1/10
Caprice No. 24 in A minor, Op. 1/24

Fritz Kreisler:
Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice, Op. 6

Joo Yeon Sir:
My Dear Bessie

Roxanna Panufnik:
Hora Bessarabia

Fazil Say:
Cleopatra

Laura Snowden:
Through the Fog

Eugene Ysaye:
Sonata No. 6 in E, Op. 27/6

Joo Yeon Sir writes in the booklet to her solo recital album ‘Solitude’, ‘Solitude was the state I found myself in along with the rest of the world in 2020. Concerts were suddenly postponed…and I was left eerily by myself at home’. When, the following year, and the time had come to record the album, Lockdown was reinstated. Joo Yeon used this period of selfreflection, to discover new works for solo violin, and to re-visit solo repertoire that were firm favourites.

Walking through strangely empty streets to the first recording session with her violin was a combination of raw emotion and loneliness, together with the familiarity of going to work with her instrument. The experience of playing became far more intense. Solitude is a musical time capsule of an artist alone, overcoming the shock of being deprived of audiences, the company of fellow musicians and finding solace in the music for solo violin.

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Recording: St Silas Church, London, 6 & 15 March and 13 April 2021.