ELISABETH WALLFISCH


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Elisabeth Wallfisch
Odile Edouard
The art of playing violin
The violin
Les Arts Florissants
Aurora
Convivium
Corelli
Locatelli
John Holloway
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Elizabeth Wallfisch undertakes a busy schedule of concerts, recordings and broadcasts, both as concerto soloist (often directing from the violin) and as a recitalist in regular performances with cellist Richard Tunnicliffe and harpsichordist/fortepianist Paul Nicholson. She regularly leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Raglan Baroque Players with Nicholas Kraemer and, occasionally, the London Classical Players under Roger Norrington.

With The Locatelli Trio (now re-named Convivium) she has recorded a series for Hyperion Records of early Italian violin sonatas. Other releases include Locatelli Opp 6 and 8, Tartini (two CDs) and Corelli (double-CD set), Albinoni, and Veracini (triple-CD set) recorded in association with WDR Cologne; Handel Sonatas Op 1 (with Paul Goodwin, Lisa Beznosiuk and Rachel Beckett). The Trio has also recorded for Hyperion's English Orpheus series.

In 1994 Hyperion released the first complete recording for over thirty years of the Locatelli Violin Concerti Op 3, 'L'Arte del Violino', performed by Elizabeth Wallfisch with the Raglan Baroque Players under Nicholas Kraemer. It was voted 'Best Recording: Solo with Orchestra (17th/18th Century)' by the panel of the Cannes Classical Awards and the honour was awarded at the 1995 MIDEM conference in Cannes.


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While enjoying the reputation she has earned as a specialist in 'early' violin repertoire, Elizabeth continues to play works from the later periods, including Spohr's Concerto No 8 for the BBC with the Ulster Orchestra under Roy Goodman; the Brahms Double Concerto with her husband, cellist Raphael Wallfisch; the Viotti Concerto No 22 with The Hanover Band, and the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir Charles Mackerras.

Elizabeth Wallfisch makes regular visits to her native Australia where she has been welcomed as 'Artist in Residence' at Melbourne University. In 1995 she gave a series of concerts at the Sydney Art Gallery with The Brandenburg Orchestra of Australia, and returned in 1996 for performances of Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the Sydney Opera House and the Melbourne Concert Hall, as well as concerts with Richard Tunnicliffe and Paul Nicholson, including appearances at the Melbourne International, the Port Fairy and the Barossa Valley festivals.

Since 1993 Elizabeth Wallfisch has been a featured soloist and led the orchestra at the annual Carmel Bach Festival in the USA under Bruno Weil. Her teaching commitments continue at London's Royal Academy of Music and she holds the position of Professor of Baroque violin at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.

November 1998

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