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Recorded May7-9, 1999 Simi Valley, CA.

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Gilles Apap, he's not your mainstream violinist
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GEORGE ENESCU (1881-1955): Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano in a minor, op. 25 (1926)
(Dans le caractère populaire roumain)
1. Moderato malinconico (7:37) 2. Andante sustenuto e misterioso (7:48)
3. Allegro con brio, ma non troppo mosso (7:24)

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918): Sonata for violin and piano (1917)
4. Allegro vivo 4. Poetic (4:07) 5. Intermede: Fantasque et leger (3:44)
6. Finale: Tres anime (3:54)

MAURICE RAVEL (1875 - 1937): Sonata for violin and piano (1927)
7. Allegretto (7:22) 8: Blues: Moderato (5:20) DOWNLOAD TRACK

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Gilles Apap... He's a Frenchman from Nice and he's classically trained. He's perhaps better known as the "Unknown Fiddler of Santa Barbara" where he has been holing up in relative isolation for many years now, and as you can probably tell, he's a maverick. He was inspired as a violinist by the great Yehudi Menuhin and, as luck would have it, he won the contemporary music prize at the 1985 Menuhin Competition - perhaps his first claim to fame. The second came in 1994 when the French/German TV station ARTE dedicated a whole evening program to him, highlighting the collision in his being of an undying devotion to classical music and an irrepressible desire to be liberated from its strictures - the liberating factor in his case being folk music (and to a certain extent jazz, blues, and swing). This "freedom from the notes," as he calls it, allows him to take ample liberties with the music of the icons, mixing folk and Hindu and gypsy and Irish and Klezmer and country and western into Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi without compunction, sometimes whistling or singing or walking across the stage or talking to his audience on the way to a cadenza. Not surprisingly, he often defies the concertmaker's dress code, eschewing tux for a flyaway shirt or other more comfortable, sometimes hippie-like attire. He continues to play virtuoso performances, but he is less known for that than as an iconoclast who makes classical musical very accessible to young people who would otherwise shun the genre. Like him or not - and there are many on either camp - one thing is sure, this not-so-unkown-fiddler is not a stuffed tuxedo!

This CD of sonatas for violin and piano, by three composers all based in early 20th century Paris, is a demonstration of his more serious side. Although he and his pianist friend introduce some embellishments, as in the Blues movement of the Ravel Sonata excerpted here, the fiddler who wants to open up classical music to new frontiers does show that he is at heart a classical artist.

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