Award-winning Spanish-born violinist Francisco Fullana celebrates the release of Bach’s Long Shadow, his second solo album for Orchid Classics, with a livestream performance on The Violin Channel's VC LIVE series at 2:00 PM today.
Franciso Fullana, violin
VC LIVE
May 28, 2021 at 2:00 PM EST
An intimate look into the impact and influence of Bach’s work over a 300-year span, and Fullana’s personal journey as an artist, on the CD Fullana pays tribute to both the baroque and modern stages. He juxtaposes baroque and modern bow, and gut and steel strings, as he explores Bach's solo violin legacy.
Recorded in England on the 1735 "Mary Portman" ex-Kreisler Guarneri del Gesù violin, Bach’s Long Shadow features Bach’s Partita No.3 in E major for Solo Violin, BWV 1006, and two works by Eugène Ysaÿe, including Ysaÿe's second sonata in which the composer metamorphosizes Bach's original E major Partita into an obsessive display of virtuosity. The Recitativo & Scherzo, Op.6 by Fritz Kreisler -a dedicatee and muse of Ysaÿe, is performed on Kreisler's original violin. Two Spanish works from the 1890’s, Isaac Albéniz’s, Asturias (Leyenda), arranged by Patrick Loiseleur & Francisco Fullana, and Francisco Tárrega’s Recuerdos de la Alhambra , arranged by Ruggiero Ricci, link back to Fullana’s native country and his own family origins. Close friend violinist Stella Chen joins Fullana in the album's encore, Ysaÿe’s Sonata for Two Violins.
BACH’S LONG SHADOW
Released Today, May 28, 2021
Acclaimed by BBC Music Magazine as a “rising star”, Spanish-born violinist Francisco Fullana is making a name for himself as a performer on the modern and baroque stages. A 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, as a soloist, he has performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Bayerische Philharmonie led by the late Sir Colin Davis, the Sibelius Concerto with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, and the Brahms Violin Concerto with Venezuela’s Teresa Carreño Orchestra under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. Additional conductors with whom he has worked include Hans Graf, Alondra de la Parra, Christoph Poppen, and Joshua Weilerstein, to name a few. Fullana’s versatility as a performer has resulted in appearances with such distinguished orchestras as the City of Birmingham (UK), Vancouver, Pacific and Buffalo symphony orchestras, the chamber orchestras of Saint Paul and Philadelphia, the baroque ensemble Apollo’s Fire and the new music driven Metropolis Ensemble.
Upcoming Summer 2021 engagements include performances at the Bellver Festival (Spain), Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany), Market Square Concerts Summermusic 2021 series, (Pennsylvania), and Colorado's Moab Music Festival. Fullana makes recital debuts at Germany’s Gezeiten Konzerte and at Spain’s Caiassa Festival and continues his residency as soloist and guest leader with the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra. Chamber music concerts include Classical Music Institute's Chamber Orchestra (Texas) and Music in the Vineyards (California). Other performances of note include a duo recital on the Violin Channel’s Vanguard Series at NYC’s Merkin Hall in collaboration with Argentinian bandoneonist / composer J.P. Jofre and guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas. Fall 2021 highlights include a multi-city US tour featuring Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the Grammy Award-winning baroque ensemble Apollo’s Fire and Jeannette Sorrell, and the upcoming cd release of the same work for Avie Records.Also this fall, Fullana will make his concerto debuts with the Austin and Tallahassee Symphonies, as well as a return appearnace with Vancouver Symphony (WA). In Asia, two recital tours of eastern China and Japan have been rescheduled for 2022.
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