I. Strawinsky - Complete Music For Violin

Stravinsky�s collaboration with the violinist Samuel Dushkin was a great artistic success, generating new works for the repertoire as well as arrangements of some of the composer�s most tuneful and popular works. Of these arrangements, Dushkin wrote that Stravinsky seemed �to go back to the essence of the music and rewrite or recreate the music in the spirit of the new instrument�. Reviewing the current performers in The Independent, Bayan Northcott writes that �these are no ordinary transcriptions. In reducing items from The Firebird or The Fairy�s Kiss to the violin and piano medium, Stravinsky rethought and respaced their every chord�.In the performing partnership of Anthony Marwood and Thomas Ad�s, Hyperion has a combination that seems to reignite the original flame of inspiration, creation and re-creation.