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CESAR GUERRA-PEIXE
Guerra-Peixe: A Retirada da Laguna Abner Landim (violin) / Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] César Guerra-Peixe is one of the leading composers associated with musical nationalism in Brazil. A Retirada da Laguna is a programmatic suite that describes one of the most dramatic moments in the Paraguayan War of 1864-70 |
RALF VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending / Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis / Symphony No. 5 in D major / Fantasia on Greensleeves Iona Brown (violin) / Academy Of St Martin In The Fields, Neville Marriner / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Roger Norrington [ Decca Virtuoso / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] A delightful disc from Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, neatly encompassing four of Vaughan Williams' most enduringly popular orchestral works. |
PHILIP GLASS
Of Beauty & Light: The Music of Philip Glass (3 CD set) Adele Anthony (violin) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop / Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2008 ] This is Glass in full flight, with an aural illusion of the work speeding up yet retaining a constant pulse throughout the work's lively changes of texture and melodic figuration." --New Zealand Listener |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass: Violin Concerto No 1 / Company / 'Prelude and Dance' from Akhnaten Adele Anthony (violin) / Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2006 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (July 2002) |
FEDERIGO FIORILLO / GIOVANNI BATTISTA VIOTTI
Fiorillo/Viotti: Violin Concertos Adelina Oprean (violin) / European Community Chamber Orchestra / Jorg Faerber [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] 'A welcome reissue of a fine disc coupling a pair of delightful concertos, in performances of delectable poise and refinement. Recommended' (International Record Review) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Concertos for violin Adelina Oprean (violin) / Justin Oprean (piano) / European Union Chamber Orchestra [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] 'Adelina Oprean plays with flair and style, adding her own cadenzas (quite tastefully) and holding her own against competition from a number of better-known violinists. The European Union Chamber Orchestra plays very well for her, and the recorded... |
FREDERICK DELIUS / EDWARD ELGAR
Delius/Elgar: Violin Concertos (Rec 1929 & 44) Albert Sammons (violin) / Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / New Queen's Hall Orchestra / Malcolm Sargent, Henry Wood (conductors) [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 10/Jan/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Schnittke: Cello Concertos / Cello Sonatas / Concerto grosso No. 2 Alexander Ivashkin (cello) Tatiana Grindenko (violin) / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] "A disc that critic Philip Clark calls in his review "the definitive document of Schnittke's relationship with the cello" can make for uncomfortable listening. Properly so, as the First Concerto was composed around Schnittke's dreadful stroke in... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Piano Concertos nos.1 & 2 / Sonata for violin and piano op.134 Alexander Melnikov (piano) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis, with Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] "He makes his case well. The First Concerto is all rampaging dissonances and erotic regret; the Second (1957) masks nerve-racking syncopations beneath its surface brilliance...[the sonata] a compelling performance in which logic and rhetoric combine... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: American Suite / Silent Woods / Prague Waltzes / Suite in A major American / Rondo in G minor / etc Alexander Trostianski (violin) / Dmitry Yablonsky (cello) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "These essentially undemanding works played with buoyancy to animate them and not too much weight to submerge their real, if slight, charms." - MUsicWeb Feb 2005 |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Concerto for Piano and Violin, Op. 17 / Violin Concerto Alexander Trostianski (violin) / Polina Osetinskaya (piano) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Gregory Rose (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] "Naxos is to be commended for bringing these two works to our attention, especially since the performances are very polished...the recording is beautifully natural." (American Record Guide) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 Emperor / Concerto in D major for Piano & Orchestra (Arranged by the composer from the Violin Concerto) Alicia de Larrocha, Olli Mustonen (pianos) / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 27/Jan/2006 ] Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha's first recording of Beethoven's Emperor is a grand and thrilling affair and this recording here receives its first release on CD. |
ROSLAVETS
Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Alina Ibragimova (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] 'Both concertos are beautifully played by Alina Ibragimova, whose slightly wiry, deceptively fragile sound seems ideal for this music's ambiguities, with Volkov and his orchestra providing the perfect foil' (The Guardian) |
MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concertos / Fingal's Cave Overture Alina Ibragimova (violin) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "what was the thinking behind teaming together a soloist who uses vibrato, albeit tastefully, and a string band who don't? Not that I necessarily object to the result...Ibragimova's sensitive playing wins the day, with some superlative quiet moments... |
HENRY COTTER NIXON
Henry Cotter Nixon: Complete Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 Ana Török (violin) / Kodaly Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Mann [ Toccata / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] The English composer-conductor Henry Cotter Nixon (1842-1907) has entirely disappeared from music history. But this new series - presenting all his surviving orchestral music in its first-ever recordings - reveals Nixon to have been one of the most... |
MIKLOS ROZSA
Rozsa: Violin Concerto / Sinfonia Concertante Anastasia Khitruk (violin) / Andrey Tchekmazov (cello) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitri Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Oct/2007 ] "Fine lyrical playing with aggressive virtuosity. Works of great merit that are deserving of a wider audience. Play this one next to Brahms' genre counterparts for an interesting comparison" (MusicWeb Oct 2007) |
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Ancerl Karel (conductor), Henryk Szeryng (violin), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
My Country [ Supraphon / DVD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] |
Andre Rieu (violin) / The Johann Strauss Orchestra
Magic Of The Musicals [ Decca / CD - released 28/May/2014 ] Andre Rieu is the King of the Violin, the King of the Waltz, and now the King of the Musicals! Just like 'Magic of the Movies', Andre has now recorded some of the most-loved hits from musicals we all know and love! |
RODNEY NEWTON
Newton: Orchestral Music Vol.1 Andrea Sestakova (violin) David Llavata (trumpet) / Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Mann [ Toccata / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] The English musician Rodney Newton (b.1945) earned his living as an orchestral timpanist and percussionist, becoming known primarily for his works for brass bands. Until now his substantial output for orchestra has remained completely unknown. This... |
SINDING
The Works for Violin & Orchestra Andrej Bielow / NDR Radiophilharmonie, Frank Beermann [ CPO Records / 2 CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] The composer maintained a special interest in the violin throughout his life, with his three major concertos and four shorter concert pieces attesting to his fact. These highly romantic and virtuosic concert compositions find a congenial soloist in... |
