Von Westhoff: Suites for Solo Violin Plamena Nikitassova

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Album-Release:
2020

HRA-Release:
06.03.2020

Label: Ricercar

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

Artist: Plamena Nikitassova

Composer: Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705)

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  • Johann Paul von Weshoff (1656 - 1705): Suite for Solo Violin No. 2 in A Major:
  • 1Suite for Solo Violin No. 2 in A Major: I. Allemande03:58
  • 2Suite for Solo Violin No. 2 in A Major: II. Courante01:42
  • 3Suite for Solo Violin No. 2 in A Major: III. Sarabande01:54
  • 4Suite for Solo Violin No. 2 in A Major: IV. Gigue01:54
  • Suite for Solo Violin No. 5 in D Minor:
  • 5Suite for Solo Violin No. 5 in D Minor: I. Allemande03:22
  • 6Suite for Solo Violin No. 5 in D Minor: II. Courante01:36
  • 7Suite for Solo Violin No. 5 in D Minor: III. Sarabande02:05
  • 8Suite for Solo Violin No. 5 in D Minor: IV. Gigue01:52
  • Suite for Solo Violin senza Basso Continuo in A Major:
  • 9Suite for Solo Violin senza Basso Continuo in A Major: I. Prelude02:26
  • 10Suite for Solo Violin senza Basso Continuo in A Major: I. Allemande02:48
  • 11Suite for Solo Violin senza Basso Continuo in A Major: III. Courante02:05
  • 12Suite for Solo Violin senza Basso Continuo in A Major: IV. Sarabande02:41
  • 13Suite for Solo Violin senza Basso Continuo in A Major: V. Gigue02:28
  • Suite for Solo Violin No. 1 in A Minor:
  • 14Suite for Solo Violin No. 1 in A Minor: I. Allemande03:08
  • 15Suite for Solo Violin No. 1 in A Minor: II. Courante02:21
  • 16Suite for Solo Violin No. 1 in A Minor: III. Sarabande02:01
  • 17Suite for Solo Violin No. 1 in A Minor: IV. Gigue01:27
  • Suite for Solo Violin No. 4 in C Major:
  • 18Suite for Solo Violin No. 4 in C Major: I. Allemande02:34
  • 19Suite for Solo Violin No. 4 in C Major: II. Courante01:50
  • 20Suite for Solo Violin No. 4 in C Major: III. Sarbande01:20
  • 21Suite for Solo Violin No. 4 in C Major: IV. Gigue02:23
  • Suite for Solo Violin No. 3 in B Major:
  • 22Suite for Solo Violin No. 3 in B Major: V. Allemande02:49
  • 23Suite for Solo Violin No. 3 in B Major: VI. Courante01:58
  • 24Suite for Solo Violin No. 3 in B Major: VII. Sarabande01:50
  • 25Suite for Solo Violin No. 3 in B Major: VIII. Gigue02:27
  • Total Runtime56:59

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Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705) was one of the most brilliant members of the significant school of violinists that flourished in seventeenth-century Dresden. This impressive virtuoso, who was even applauded by Louis XIV at Versailles, wrote the very first compositions for unaccompanied violin, which of course foreshadow the later masterpieces of Johann Sebastian Bach. The programme recorded here includes some suites from his collection published in Dresden in 1696, as well as the suite that was printed in the Mercure galant of Paris in 1683, following his visit to Versailles. Plamena Nikitassova was born in Varna (Bulgaria). At sixteen years old, she won a music scholarship that she spent in Switzerland. She then studied classical violin with M. Karafilova Piguet at the music high school of Geneva and with Prof. M. Frischenschlager at the music high school of Vienna. She obtained her teaching and soloist diploma in 1999 in Geneva, with distinction, and then played in concerts within the romantic repertoire. She performed as a soloist and chamber musician at festivals in Leipzig, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Innsbruck and Paris.

Plamena Nikitassova, violin



Plamena Nikitassova
was born in Varna (Bulgaria). At sixteen years old, she won a music scholarship that she spent in Switzerland. She then studied classical violin with M. Karafilova Piguet at the music high school of Geneva and with Prof. M. Frischenschlager at the music high school of Vienna. She obtained her teaching and soloist diploma in 1999 in Geneva, with distinction, and then played in concerts within the romantic repertoire. She performed as a soloist and chamber musician at festivals in Leipzig, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Innsbruck and Paris.

In 1999, she was honoured with the coveted „Leenhards Foundation“ award in Lausanne.

After meeting the organist Michael Radulescu (Vienna) and the viollinist Jaap Schröder (Amsterdam), Nikitassova turned to old music and started studies in renaissance and baroque violin with Chiara Banchini at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, which she completed in 2005. Since then, concerts and recordings have been leading her to the scenes and podiums of the largest metropoles in Europe.

As a duo partner, she performs concerts with the organist and harpsichordist Jörg-Andreas Bötticher and the French harpsichordist and pianist Aline Zylberajch. Her CD recordings, with “Violin sonatas by C. Zuccari”, Panclassics 2012 (Diapason d’Or Découverte), “Violin sonatas by Gaspard Fritz 1747”, Panclassics 2014, as well as “Violin sonatas by L. v. Beethoven, M. Ravel, C. Debussy”, Gallus Media 2014, were highly praised by the public and the press.

Recently, “The Violin’s Delight – a garden of pleasure” was published, the most recent CD of the violinist, with a virtuoso violin repertoire from the 17th century, which reflects her particular interest in the – nowadays too little practised – historical way of playing the violin (the so-called “low hold” of the instrument, which rests on the chest). Many new facets of the sound and expression palette are thus enabled, expressly supported and emphasised by the “thumb under” grip of the bow (thumb on the bow hair surface).

As concert master, Plamena Nikitassova played from 2013 to 2017 with the orchestra of the “J.S. Bach Foundation”, St. Gallen under the direction of R. Lutz, with whom she recorded over fifty cantatas by J.S. Bach. As of 2018, she will also be directing various ensembles in France and Germany, amongst others the Freiburger Barockorchester.

Nikitassova relates to Eastern European folk music, which can express joy of life as well as melancholy, with passion, due to the connection with her own roots. She is also committed to the chamber music of the 20th century, which also belongs to the violinist’s repertoire focuses, alongside the works of the old classic and romantic styles.

She plays on a violin of original scale by Sebastian Klotz (Mittenwald approx.1730) and one in a modern state by Pierre Dalphin (Geneva 1992).

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