Ayke Agus

When Ayke Agus performed for SBCMS: [March 1991] [Oct 1992] [Nov 1996] [May 1997]

Ayke Agus, violin and piano

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Heifetz encore transcriptions

"Ayke Agus Doubles involves one artist and two instruments: Ayke Agus playing violin and piano. Jascha Heifetz, the famed violinist, chose Ms. Agus to be his accompanist for the last 15 years of his life. She also is an accomplished violinist with an international career. The key to the recording was the high-tech piano. David Abell, a prominent purveyor of pianos in Los Angeles, serves as a field-test site for the Yamaha Disklavier. With it, an artist can record a piano piece and, via the electronics in the piano and a computer in the studio, have the performance reproduced exactly at some later time -- nuances of the performance, the phrasing and shading, are reproduced. First, Ms. Agus recorded the piano parts on the Disklavier. Then, the Disklavier played back her performance while she played the violin half of the duets -- an eerie experience for her. A live performance with her ghost. The album cover picture is a double exposure showing Ms. Agus playing both instruments." -- from Teleconcertizing by Laila Padorr Nilles

Musical Mementos of Jascha Heifetz

Ayke Agus, piano

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Impromptus (4) for piano, D899/Opus 90 No. 3 in G-flat major -- Franz Schubert

Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006, Prelude -- Johann Sebastian Bach

Songs without words, Vol. 1, Opus 19b No 1, Andante con moto in E major -- Felix Mendelssohn

Fairy Tales (2), Opus 20 No. 1 in B-flat minor -- Nikolai Medtner

Preludes (13) for Piano, Opus 32 No. 12 in G-sharp minor, Allegro -- Sergei Rachmaninov

Songs (6), Opus 38, No. 3, Daisies -- Sergei Rachmaninov

Suite española, Opus 47 No. 3, Sevilla -- Isaac Albeniz

Suite Iberia, Book 1 No. 2, El puerto -- Isaac Albeniz

Liebesleid -- Fritz Kreisler

Nocturnes (2) for piano, Opus 27 No. 2 in D-flat major -- Frédéric Chopin

Valses nobles et sentimentales, No. 6 in C major and No. 7 in A minor -- Maurice Ravel

Triakontameron: Alt Wien -- Leopold Godowsky

Gavotte satyrique, Opus 10 -- Joseph Achron

Préludes, Book 1 No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin -- Claude Debussy

Hora staccato -- Grigoras Dinicu

Preludes (3) for piano -- George Gershwin

Revised 10/9/00