Szymanowski: Violin Concertos 1 and 2 / Myths Op. 30
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Szymanowski: Violin Concertos 1 and 2 / Myths Op. 30
Baiba Skride (violin) / Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, with Lauma Skride (piano)
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Release Date: Tuesday 10 February 2015
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Baiba Skride is almost unparalleled in her virtuosic, idiomatic mastery of the standard repertoire but that is not all, for her concert calendar and discography also repeatedly feature works by lesser-known composers. In September 2013 she played Karol Szymanowski's First Violin Concerto at the Proms in London; she also recorded the Second Violin Concerto in the studio, along with the duo cycle 'Myths' with Lauma Skride at the piano.
"The First Concerto's opening here is vigorous and cleanly etched, with detailed recording...Skride's performance...is full of tonal variety, and fearless in the often vertiginous tessitura. She and Vasily Petrenko don't short-change the more dynamic sections though...[in Mythes] the partnership with her sister is a joy."
BBC Music Award Nomination 2015 - Concerto
"Skride easily holds her own in illustrious company, her tone silvery bright, her responses to Vasily Petrenko's alert (but never spiky) accompaniment quick off the mark. The lyrical aspects of the work - and there are many - are conveyed with a winning sense of poetry." (Gramophone)
"[Skride] has control of even the most hair-raising passagework…more impressive still, though, is Skride's ability to encompass the work's constantly shifting tones of voice, without ever losing her sense of balance, and without ever letting her tone falter. The music's calls for portamentos are dextrously handled, and she maintains an enviable tonal purity." (International Record Review)
Tracks:
Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35
Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 61
Mythes, Op. 30
