Maria Ioudenitch - Songbird

Maria Ioudenitch, Kenny Broberg, Theresa Pilsl

Making her instrument sing - this is an art that violinist Maria Ioudenitch has mastered like hardly any other artist of the young generation. That the world of singing also forms the center of her debut album is already foreshadowed by the title: "Songbird". After spectacular victories at the most important international competitions - most recently at the Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hanover, Germany, in conjunction with the Warner Classics Award - Maria Ioudenitch is thus taking another step on the road to the top of the world. Together with pianist Kenny Broberg, Maria Ioudenitch has woven chamber works and appropriately arranged piano songs into a narrative that is as exciting as it is varied - a kind of song cycle without words in which the sound of the violin enters into inspiring competition with that of the human voice. True to Maria Ioudenitch's self-characterization as an "American with a Russian soul," the music of Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky, Medtner, and Rachmaninoff plays a special role alongside the German song repertoire. But female composers - Clara Schumann, Fanny Hensel, Amy Beach and Nadia Boulanger - also join in the singing. Speaking of singing! One cannot be missing here, and so Maria Ioudenitch has given the "songbird" Franz Schubert a special place on her album: Schubert's beguilingly beautiful C major Fantasy, composed in 1827, in which romantic rapture and paganini-like virtuosity unite to form a musical miracle, forms the centerpiece of this remarkable debut shortly before it concludes with Richard Strauss' "Morgen".

"Young violinist Maria Ioudenitch and her pianist Kenny Broberg prove on 'Songbird' just how good the art of song can sound on the violin." (concerti)

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