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HERBERT HOWELLS
Howells: Orchesral Works (Incls Pastoral Rhapsody & King's Herald Suite) Yvonne Kenny (soprano) / Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) / Moray Welsh (cello) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox, conductor [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] These recordings offer what are regarded by the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs as definitive interpretations of the repertoire. |
NICCOLO PAGANINI / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 3 Zino Francescatti (violin) / Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy / New York Philharmonic, Dimitri Mitropoulos [ Sony Masteworks / CD - released 27/Jul/1991 ] "Saint-Saëns Third Violin Concertos with Zino Francescatti captured at the height of his powers, his tone rich and vibrant, his bowing virtually as fleet as Heifetz's." MusicWeb |
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) |
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... |
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) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (LP) Alina Ibragimova (violin), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Vladimir Jurowski [ Hyperion / LP - released 13/Sep/2024 ] The young violinist Alina Ibragimova is already established as an admired recording artist, standing alongside great artists of the past and present with her versions of Bach and Beethoven's violin works. She appears on this new vinyl release with... |
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... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Alina Ibragimova (violin), State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov', Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Concerto BBC Music Award Nomination 2021 - Concerto |
LUKAS FOSS
Foss: Ode / Renaissance Concerto / Three American Pieces / Symphony No. 1 in G major Amy Porter (flute) Nikki Chooi (violin) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 24/May/2024 ] Berlin-born Lukas Foss studied music in Paris before settling in Philadelphia in 1937. Though he freely explored diverse compositional styles, three of the works in this recording fall into his early neo-Classical period and exemplify his dictum that... |
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) |
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... |
KURT WEILL
Weill: Die Sieben Todsünden Wallis Giunta (soprano), Jennifer France (soprano), Katarina Andreasson (violin), Benjamin Herzl (violin), Swedish Chamber Orchestra [ BIS / CD - released 16/Jan/2026 ] Following his acclaimed recording of Kurt Weill's Symphonies 1 and 2 and excerpts from The Silver Lake (BIS2579), HK Gruber and his congenial partner, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, present three more works by the famous musical theatre composer,... |
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... |
MYROSLAV SKORYK
Skoryk: Violin Concertos 1-4 Andrej Bielow (violin) National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Volodymyr Sirenko [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Myroslav Skoryk, a postgraduate student of Dmitry Kabalevsky, is one of Ukraine's leading composers and teachers. His works range from opera and ballet, a symphonic transcription of Paganini's 24 Caprices, and his cycle of nine Violin Concertos... |
MYROSLAV SKORYK
Skoryk.: Violin Concertos (Complete), Vol. 2 - Nos. 5-9 Andrej Bielow (violin) / Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra, Volodymyr Sirenko [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2020 ] Myroslav Skoryk is one of Ukraine's leading composers and teachers, with a portfolio of works that include opera, a symphonic transcription of Paganini's Caprices, and a cycle of nine violin concertos written over a 45-year span. |
