Wiesbadener Anzeiger, November 14, 2008

Partly moving, partly moved
Renate Eggebrecht's Violin solo 4

»Renate Eggebrecht elicits numerous unexpected nuances from her technically highly virtuoso instrument, which almost make us forget that here 'only' Violin plays, "said the reporter of the magazine fermate (III / 08) after hearing the violin solo no. 3, on the Renate Eggebrecht with her now well-known, arch-hair-raising risk-taking the entire solo work of Paul Hindemith together with compositions by Anatol Vieru and Vladimir Martynow to one stunning suite connects to the sheer impossible.

The range of the fourth solo CD from Troubadisc is even wider. We hear moving sounds from the former saber dancer Aram Khachaturian, who said goodbye with a sonata for violin, viola and cello; by Ernest Bloch, in whose late solo suites once again the baroque old world passed by; and finally, in the poignantly economical Élégie, the Igor Stravinsky in 1944 for the death of Alphonse Onnou, the founder of Quatuor Pro Arte, has composed.

Much more moving is the second part of the program, in de m the violin on the one hand by Alfred Schnittke in a downright devilish homage to the devil violinist Paganini glows and is finally whipped by Grazyna Bacewicz to equally boundless as original virtuosity, on top of that we can, as so often in the fascinating lady with the »small internal engine«, once again make one thing very clear: If someone really wants to compose, it does not need any Approval, no license, no "understanding" environment, just ideas and skills.

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