Renate Eggebrecht, violin 

biography

The violinist received her first music lessons from her mother before she was four years old. At the age of 8 she became a student of Hans Hilf, who himself had studied at the Leipzig Conservatory in the master class of Prof. Davisson. The twelve-year-old Renate Eggebrecht entered the Lübeck College of Music and studied violin under Hans Hilf and piano under Wilhelm Rau. After further lessons under the violinist Friedrich Wührer she continued her studies at the Munich College of Music, and then with private studies.

The violinist attended master classes given by Max Rostal and Semyon Snitkovsky and chamber music courses with the La Salle Quartet. In 1986 the young musician founded the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet, and together they performed in a series of concerts and played for numerous recordings. These include many first performances of hitherto unknown music, including the chamber music of Fanny Mendelssohn (in an edition made from the autograph score by Renate Eggebrecht) and works by Ethel Smyth, Grazyna Bacewicz, and Germaine Tailleferre.

In 1986 Renate Eggebrecht founded the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet, with which she first performed the String Quartet (1834) by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel in Munich and on 6 March 1988 she gave with her ensemble the World Premiere Performance of the Piano Quartet in A flat major (1822) of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel at the cultural center Gasteig in Munich.

A recording of the first eight string quartets by Darius Milhaud was internationally acclaimed as “a great and valuable series” and the violinist was praised by the Musical Times for the “fine musical intelligence and warm tonal clarity."

Previous CD recordings of Max Reger’s chamber music, including the two great Violin Sonatas op. 72 and op. 139, the Piano Quintet op. 64 and the Piano Trio op. 102, and the two Piano Quartets op. 113 and op. 133 were internationally hailed as “highly emotional and captivating” readings of “fascinating virtuosity and bold imagination.” (Fono Forum)

The violinist has proved her command of twentieth-century music of the early modern era with her recordings of the complete works for violin solo by Max Reger.

She recently made the world premiere recordings of the Duo Sonatas by Nikos Skalkottas and Anatol Vieru.
She once again confirms her deep commitment to the music of this period with the edition VIOLIN SOLO Vol. 1 and 2 including world premiere recordings of sonatas by Johanna Senfter, Darius Milhaud and Dimitri Nicolau, together with the sonatas by Nikos Skalkottas, Arthur Honegger, Grazyna Bacewicz, Erwin Schulhoff, and Béla Bartók.

Interview (2006) >>> 
 
 In 2007 the third album released with the complete recording of the works for violin solo (1916-1925) by Paul Hindemith together with the world premiere recordings of the Capriccio (1997) by Anatol Vieru, and the Partita (1976) by the Russian minimalist Vladimir Martynov.

In 2008 Renate Eggebrecht released the fourth album of the series VIOLIN SOLO with the Suite No.1 and No.2 (1958) by Ernest Bloch, the "Élégie" (1944) by Igor Stravinsky, the "Four Caprices" (1968) by Grazyna Bacewicz, the "Sonata-Monologue" (1975) by Aram Khachaturian and the work "a paganini" (1982) by Alfred Schnittke for Troubadisc.

With the fourth SACD, a sequence of works, beginning with Max Reger’s Chaconne op. 117, no. 4 (1909) and extending to the present day, already becomes evident. A compendium of the modern violin literature is presented with violin sonatas by the German Johanna Senfter, the Czech Erwin Schulhoff, the Frenchman Darius Milhaud, the Swiss Arthur Honegger, the Hungarian Béla Bartók, the Greek Nikos Skalkottas, the Pole Grazyna Bacewicz, the Greek-Italian Dimitri Nicolau the German Paul Hindemith, as well as solo works by the Romanian Anatol Vieru and the Russians Vladimir Martynov, Igor Stravinsky and Alfred Schnittke, as well as the American Ernest Bloch and the Armenian Aram Khachaturian.

In 2010 Renate Eggebrecht released the fifth solo album with recordings of the Sonata op. 115 (1947) by Sergey Prokofiev, the ‘Sonata fantasia’ (1928/29) by Ljubica Mari?, the Caprice no. 1 (1949) and the world premiere recordings of the Caprice No. 2 (1952) and the Sonata (1941) by Grazyna Bacewicz, she released also the Sonata (1962) and the Suite of Estonian Dance Tunes for solo violin (1978) by Eduard Tubin and the world premiere recording of the Sonata (1978) by Edison Denisov. presents therewith the complete recording of the works for Solo Violin by Grazyna Bacewicz.

With the sixth album in 2013 Renate Eggebrecht devotes to the Six Sonatas (1923) by Eugène Ysaye and the Capriccio (1944) by Joaquín Rodrigo.

The completion of this Edition Violin Solo in the year 2013 forms the seventh album with the Sonatas & Partitas for Violin solo BWV 1001 - 1006 by J. S. Bach followed by the Postludium II (1982/83) by Valentin Silvestrov.

A sequence of works already becomes evident, beginning with Max Reger’s Chaconne op. 117, over Bach's Sei Solo and extending to the present day:
A compendium of the modern violin literature -

Interview (2013) >>>

Wikipedia 

Recordings

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TRO-CD 01403 - 2-CD-Set - Ethel Smyth - Chamber music Vol.1 & Vol.2 - Violin Sonata - String Quintet - String Quartet - € 22,00
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TRO-CD 01404  - Grazyna Bacewicz - String Quartets No. 4, 6, 7 - € 18,00
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TRO-CD 01405 - Ethel Smyth - Chamber music & Lieder Vol.3 - Double Concerto
for Violin & Horn - € 18,00
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TRO-CD 01406 - Germaine Tailleferre - Chamber music - 2 Violin Sonatas -
String Quartet - Piano Trio - € 18,00
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TRO-CD 01428 - Fanny Mendelssohn - Piano Chamber music - Works for Cello & Piano - Piano Quartet - Piano Trio - Recording from 1989 - € 18,00  ..........................................................................................................
TRO-CD 01408 - Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel - Chamber music - String Quartet - Piano Quartet - Klaviertrio - Recording from 1993 - € 18,00
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TRO-CD 01409 - TRO-CD 01410 - TRO-CD 01411 - Darius Milhaud - String Quartets & Vokal works Vol.1-3 - à € 18,00
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TRO-CD 01412 - Arthur Bliss - String Quartets No. 1 & 2 - € 18,00
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TRO-CD 01413 - Max Reger - Violin Sonatas opp. 72 & 139 - € 18,00
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TRO-CD 01414 - Max Reger - Piano Quintet op. 64 - Piano Trio op. 102 -
€ 18,00
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TRO-CD 01415 - Max Reger - Piano Quartets opp. 113 & 133 - € 18,00
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Max Reger's - complete works for solo violin

TRO-CD 01422 - TRO-CD 01416-2-CD-Set - TRO-CD 01425 -
TRO-CD 01427 -
 à € 18,00  - 2-CD-Set € 24,00
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TRO-CD 01423 - TRO-CD 01426 - Works for Violin & Cello - à € 18,00
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TRO-CD 01418 - String Quartets of 7 Women Composers - € 18,00
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VIOLIN SOLO Edition

Vol.1: TRO-CD 01424 -     Reger, Senfter, Skalkottas, Honegger -
Vol.2: TRO-SACD 01429 - Schulhoff, Bartók, Bacewicz, Milhaud, Nicolau -
Vol.3: TRO-SACD 01431 - Hindemith, Vieru, Martynow -
Vol.4: TRO-SACD 01433 - Bloch, Strawinsky, Bacewicz, Chatschaturjan, Schnittke
Vol.5: TRO-SACD 01436 - Prokofiev, Maric, Bacewicz, Tubin, Denissow -
Vol.6: TRO-CD 01443 -     Ysaye, Rodrigo -
Vol.7: TRO-CD 01444 -     J.S.Bach, Silvestrov