Virtuoso Violin Concertos

Virtuoso Violin Concertos cover $25.00 Out of Stock
 add to cart

SAINT-SAENS / SIBELIUS / SARASATE / KHACHATURIAN / TCHAIKOVSKY
Virtuoso Violin Concertos
Ruggiero Ricci (violin) with various orchestras and conductors

[ SBS Decca Eloquence / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Monday 1 March 2010

Ruggiero Ricci is in his element in these virtuoso concertos and showpieces. All the recordings were made in a five-year period from 1956 (Khachaturian) to 1961 (Tchaikovsky).

Ruggiero Ricci is in his element in these virtuoso concertos and showpieces, with both, the Tchaikovsky Concerto (with Sargent) and Scherzo and the Sibelius Violin Concerto being released internationally on CD for the first time. The perceptive booklet notes by Tully Potter include a biography of Ricci and (sometimes wry!) comments by the violinist himself on the recordings, and some fascinating detail on the first movement cadenza of the Khachaturian. All the recordings were made in a five-year period from 1956 (Khachaturian) to 1961 (Tchaikovsky).

Tracks:

Khachaturian:
Violin Concerto in D minor
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari

Saint-Saëns:
Introduction & Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28
London Symphony Orchestra, Piero Gamba

Havanaise, Op. 83
London Symphony Orchestra, Piero Gamba

Sarasate:
Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20
London Symphony Orchestra, Piero Gamba

Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25
London Symphony Orchestra, Piero Gamba

Sibelius:
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
London Symphony Orchestra, Oivin Fjeldstad

Tchaikovsky:
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Scherzo
London Symphony Orchestra, Oivin Fjeldstad

Sérénade Mélancolique for Violin & Orchestra in B minor, Op. 26
London Symphony Orchestra, Oivin Fjeldstad