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Salvatore Accardo, born in Turin in 1941, brings an Italianate warmth and intensity to the music he plays – not just to fellow countrymen such as Vivaldi, Tartini and Paganini, but also to Austrian and German composers. By the age of thirteen he had performed Paganini's Caprices in recital, and he...
After her last two albums of completely new compositions, 'Silfra' and 'In 27 Pieces – The Hilary Hahn Encores', Hilary returns with classic-romantic repertoire.Two-times Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn now combines Mozart's beloved Concerto in A, K 219 – with its fiery "Turkish" episode...
Chinese superstar violinist Lu Siqing makes his first recording with an Australian orchestra!Lu Siqing, China's finest violinist, makes his debut recording with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – to be launched at MSO's gala Chinese New Year Concert (celebrating the Year of the Dog).Mr Lu (whose...
Following his critically acclaimed set of Mozart Violin Sonatas with pianist Kit Armstrong, highly esteemed violinist Renaud Capuçon produces another Mozart set on Deutsche Grammophon. He says: "Ever since I became Artistic Director of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, it’s been obvious that I...
The three sonatas of Polish composer Mieczys?aw Weinberg, written in 1964, 1967 and 1979, are among the most richly creative and technically challenging 20th century works for solo violin, and their radical expressivity draws the listener in. Gidon Kremer, a key figure in the revival of interest in...
Six Violin Sonatas from the 20th century performed by German violinist Max Rostal and recorded for Argo and Deutsche Grammophon.Having fled from the Nazis and moved to London in 1934, the German violinist Max Rostal became a fixture of the English capital's musical scene and an inspired interpreter...
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
This collection of over 10 new works, world premieres and associated performances was born from COVID inactivity, where Violinist Vov Dylan and Composer Elena Kats-Chernin found time to grow from musical friends to musical collaborators and in the process delving into the vast array of music that...
Viotti wrote 29 violin concertos - an unusual number in the late Classical/early Romantic era. The first 19 were written in Paris, and the last ten in London. His Concerto No. 22, composed sometime during the 1790s, is the one which has proven to be the most durable. Joseph Joachim had a hand in...
The great yearning melodies and the seductiveness of Korngold's orchestration are hard to resist. The sheer sweep and thrill of his music became what is sometimes called the "Hollywood sound," but in no way makes him a less serious composer as this collection of works, all conducted by André Previn...
Sir Adrian Boult was a conductor of much more 'temperament' than is commonly supposed, with ever-frustrated ambitions to lead a complete Ring cycle, and whose consummate professionalism and Edwardian moustache concealed an interpreter of often fiery passions in Romantic repertoire. This new...
In another original pairing violinist Hilary Hahn brings together the familiar, highly commercial and long-awaited recording of the famous Sibelius Violin Concerto with the rarely performed Violin Concerto by Arnold Schoenberg. Hahn brings out the romantic qualities of Schoenberg's Concerto-known...
This Eloquence set presents Campoli's legacy in largely chronological order, restoring the original LP couplings, and presenting for the first time on CD stereo versions of Saint-Saëns's Violin Concerto No. 3, the Kreisler/Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1 and pieces by Sarasate and Wieniawski. The...
One of the most significant violinists in gramophone history, Alfredo Campoli enjoyed tremendous success in the 1930s as a purveyor of light music, both in concerts with his own salon orchestra and on Decca. A series of six 2CD reissues from Eloquence focuses on the violinist's postwar reinvention...
Mozart's precocious genius was as a keyboard player and composer, and his father proudly paraded these gifts of his all over Europe; but Wolfgang also played the violin – Leopold's own instrument, for which he had written a tutor that was to become famous – and throughout the years he lived at home...
Intimate French music for violin and piano: for her debut solo album, brilliant young violinist Emily Sun has chosen music of passionate, intense beauty from the great French masters. At the heart of the album are two of the cornerstones of the repertoire: César Franck's deeply romantic Violin...
Considered by many to be Grumiaux's best recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto, this performance, by turn tender and muscular, receives it's first international release on CD. The Concertgebouw is in glorious form under Van Beinum and Aafje Heynis is an amber-toned soloist in the inspiring Alto...
