The Happiest Years Judith Ingolfsson

• Artur Schnabel (1882 - 1951): Sonata for Violin Solo:
• 1 Sonata for Violin Solo: I. Langsam, sehr frei und leidenschaftlich 09:26
• 2 Sonata for Violin Solo: II. In kräftig-fröhlichem Wanderschritt, durchweg sehr lebendig 03:11
• 3 Sonata for Violin Solo: III. Zart und anmutig, durchaus ruhig 11:27
• 4 Sonata for Violin Solo: IV. Äußerst rasch 06:39
• 5 Sonata for Violin Solo: V. Sehr langsame Halbe, mit feierlichem ernstem Ausdruck, doch stets schlicht 15:59
• Eduard Erdmann (1896 - 1958): Sonata for Violin Solo, Op. 12:
• 6 Sonata for Violin Solo, Op. 12: I. Ruhig - Fließend - Ruhig 07:48
• 7 Sonata for Violin Solo, Op. 12: II. Allegretto scherzando - Trio. Einfach, wie eine Volksweise 04:17
• 8 Sonata for Violin Solo, Op. 12: III. Langsam 02:40
• 9 Sonata for Violin Solo, Op. 12: IV. Lebendig 03:45
• Total Runtime 01:05:12

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The exceptional violinist Judith Ingolfsson has brought genuine rarities to the market with her new GENUIN CD. Only a handful of violinists around the world perform the highly demanding sonatas for solo violin by Artur Schnabel and Eduard Erdmann, and there is currently no commercial recording of Erdmann's work at all! The sonatas of these two great pianists and composers represent autonomous musical universes that are peppered with technical difficulties and are full of depth and character. A musical message in a bottle from a forgotten time that is absolutely worth recovering!

Judith Ingolfsson, violin

Judith Ingolfsson
is recognized for her intense, commanding performances, uncompromising musical maturity, and charismatic performance style. Based in Berlin and enjoying a global career, she performs regularly as a soloist chamber musician as well as in recitals as part of Duo Ingolfsson-Stoupel, founded in 2006. Judith Ingolfsson appears regularly at major concert venues throughout the world, including Konzerthaus Berlin, Tokyo Opera City, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and Carnegie Hall in New York. Concert tours have taken her throughout the United States as well as Europe, Israel, Iceland, Russia, China, Taiwan, Hong-Kong, Macao, Japan, Canada, Puerto Rico, Panama and Brazil. She frequently performs as a soloist with leading orchestras and renowned conductors such as Wolfgang Sawallisch or Leonard Slatkin. Judith Ingolfsson completed her music studies with the legendary violinist and teacher, Jascha Brodsky at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia as well as with David Cerone and Donald Weilerstein at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In addition to winning the Gold Medal at the prestigious International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 1998, she has won numerous prizes and honors, including First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York and Third Prize at the Premio Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa. Judith Ingolfsson has been a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart since October 2008 and at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University since 2019. She plays a 1750 Lorenzo Guadagnini violin.

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