- Svend Asmussen
Solo Bowing – Svend Asmussen's Evergreen Violin Solos (2011)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Programme Note
"The greatest jazz secret”, "Great Dane”, "Fiddler Supreme.” Danish violinist Svend Asmussen has been dubbed many wondrous titles. Duke Ellington’s first reaction, "Man you play a hell of a lot of fiddle!”
Mr. Asmussen has stated, "My unattainable model was, of course, Johan Sebastian Bach, whose famed violin solos I often practice playing.”
Asmussen’s solos and the charts of numbers by Gershwin, Ellington, and Asmussen, among others, will attract violinists everywhere, as swinging encores and as integral parts of their repertoire.
The greatest secret is no longer a secret ...
Mr. Asmussen has stated, "My unattainable model was, of course, Johan Sebastian Bach, whose famed violin solos I often practice playing.”
Asmussen’s solos and the charts of numbers by Gershwin, Ellington, and Asmussen, among others, will attract violinists everywhere, as swinging encores and as integral parts of their repertoire.
The greatest secret is no longer a secret ...