Sarasate Virtuoso Violin Works ¡Sarasateada! Valladolid 2008, Gil Shaham & Adele Anthony

Violinists Adele Anthony and Gil Shaham share many passions. Along with their personal connection (they are married) and careers, both feel a deep affinity for the music of Sarasate.

This legendary violinist and composer’s inspired works are enormously entertaining and irresistibly appealing, eloquently summarised by Adele as ‘his works being a culmination of melody, violinistic idiom and elegance, often evocative of his native Spain’. Gil rates him ‘as one of my great personal heroes. His style was always full of imagination, full of melody, always perfectly clean and concise.’

Adele and Gil used the occasion of Sarasate’s centenary in 2008 to pay tribute to this master’s work. The year of celebrations included a televised PBS concert live from the Lincoln Center in New York, and to end the year’s festivities as series of concerts ¡Sarasateada! held in Valladolid, in Sarasate’s native Spain, from which this new recording is born. See full press release.

Tracklisting and audio clips

1. Carmen Fantasy Op.25* (Gil Shaham)

• Introduction: Allegro Moderato
• Moderato
• Lento assai
• Allegretto moderato
• Moderato

2. Song of the Nightingale Op.29 (Adele Anthony)

3. Habanera, Op. 26 No. 2 (Gil Shaham)

4. Zapateado, Op. 23 No. 2 (Gil Shaham)

5. Zortzico “Adiós Montañas mías” Op. 39 * (Gil Shaham)

6. Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs) Op.20 * (Gil Shaham)

7. Airs Écossais (Scottish Airs) Op. 34 (Adele Anthony)

8. Romanza Andaluza, Op. 22 No. 1 (Gil Shaham)

9. Capricho Vasco (Caprice Basque) Op. 24 (Gil Shaham)

10. Gavota de Mignon Op. 16 (Gil Shaham)

11. Introduction and Tarantella Op.43

12. Navarra for 2 violins Op.33* (Gil Shaham, Adele Anthony)

* Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León,
Alejandro Posada, conductor