Violinist Franziska Pietsch and pianist Maki Hayashida offer deeply personal readings of Béla Bartók’s magnificent Sonatas for violin and piano, and his irresistible Romanian Folk Dances, offering fresh insights into Bartók: The Quiet Revolutionary.
Bartók was in many ways an outsider for much of his life, and this is something Franziska Pietsch understands from her experiences growing up in East Germany, where she was at first promoted as a violin prodigy before being abruptly dropped by her mentors after her father defected to the West. Pietsch was able to flourish following the family’s move to West Germany, and later studied at The Juilliard School. She is joined for this recording by regular performance partner, Maki Hayashida, with whom she enjoys an exceptional rapport.
