''Music for Violin Alone'' is an album by violinist
Mark Feldman which was released on the
Tzadik
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label in 1995.
Reception
In her review for
Allmusic
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, Joslyn Layne notes that "''Music for Violin Alone'' is the debut date as leader for virtuoso violinist Mark Feldman, who has performed as a sideman with countless musicians, in genres ranging from country to avant-garde jazz. Here he performs original, classically styled pieces that exude high drama".
On
All About Jazz Karla Cornejo Villavincencio said "The whole record is dedicated to the solo violin and the attention is well-deserved, Feldman's playing easily keeping the listener enraptured".
[Villavincencio, K. C.]
All About Jazz Review
September 5, 2009
Track listing
''All compositions by Mark Feldman''
# "Etude" - 2:18
# "Jeté" - 8:52
# "Calista" - 5:52
# "Sul G" - 1:57
# "Molly" - 1:33
# "Caprice" - 1:49
# "Fantasy for the Violin" - 5:32
# "Elergy" - 6:37
# "Stalker" - 2:03
# "The Tri Five" - 2:35
# "4 Spiker" - 4:01
Personnel
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Mark Feldman -
violin
The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...
References
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Tzadik Records albums
Mark Feldman albums
1995 albums