DVORAK / SZYMANOWSKI
Violin Concertos Arabella Steinbacher (violin) / Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] This is Steinbecher's debut on Pentatone. She is 27 and was taught by the same teacher as Julia Fischer. Her previous recordings for Orfeo have all got great reviews. |
PROKOFIEV
The Two Violin Concertos / Sonata for Solo Violin Arabella Steinbacher (violin) / Russian National Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2013 ] "admirers of this gifted young artist will need no second bidding to acquire this latest recording of hers, for she plays all three works with love and affection [International Recored Review] |
TARTINI
Violin Concertos Ariadne Daskalakis (violin) / Cologne Chamber Orchestra / Helmut Muller-Bruhl [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Apr/2007 ] "There are plenty of good things here - premiere recordings and fine, stylistically aware playing from the modern instrument orchestra, tactfully directed by Müller-Brühl. And Ariadne Daskalakis plays with grace and lyrical purity sufficient to... |
HUGO ALFVEN
Alfven: Symphony No. 4, Op. 39 / Festival Overture, Op. 52 Arndis Halla (soprano) / Johann Valdimarsson (tenor) / Sigrun Edvaldsdottir (violin) / Richard Talkowsky (cello) / Iceland Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] "The Naxos recording is better, however, being a modern digital offering, recorded in a sympathetic acoustic, allowing all parts to be heard clearly. The orchestra is certainly well up to the task." (MusicWeb 2005) |
ARTHUR BLISS / WILLIAM WALTON
Bliss / Walton: Violin Concertos Lorraine McAslan (violin) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch SACD / CD - released 20/Feb/2018 ] "McAslan's response to the solo part's Heifetz-satisfying technical demands is as fine as her bombproof tuning and warm, not over-sumptuous tone and expression." BBC Music |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Concerto / Alto Rhapsody / Overtures Arthur Grumiaux (violin) Aafje Heynis (contralto) / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam / Eduard van Beinum [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "(Aafje Heynis') This is lovely, spontaneous singing. When the chorus enter the radiant solo line is further enhanced, integrated yet free. A truly moving performance unerringly paced." Gramophone Magazine |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Concerto / Symphony No.2 Arthur Grumiaux (violin) / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam / Eduard van Beinum [ Philips ABC Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] Peerless performances of Grumiaux's wonderful 1957 performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Concertgebouw and Eduard van Beinum, coupled with the first release on CD of Van Beinum's recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 2. Two radiant... |
MAX BRUCH
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Scottish Fantasy Arthur Grumiaux (violin) / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Heinz Wallberg [ Australian Decca Eloquence / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "For collectors, this Eloquence issue will prove a valuable, even endearing supplement" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
TCHAIKOVSKY / BRUCH
Violin Concerto in D Op. 35 / Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46 Arthur Grumiaux (violin) / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Jan Krenz & Heinz Wallberg [ Penatone SACD / SACD - released 6/Jul/2005 ] "What is heard here is extraordinarily natural, the best seat in the house. Grumiaux's violin glistens in this environment, perfectly balanced with the orchestra. And the performances are outstanding in every way." --classicalcdreview |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / GIOVANNI BATTISTA VIOTTI
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D / Viotti: Violin Concerto No. 22 Arthur Grumiaux (violin) / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [ ABC Philips Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "Among the finest ever committed to disc...imbued with a spirit of classical serenity." - Penguin Guide to Compact Discs |
BEETHOVEN / BRUCH
Violin Concertos Arthur Grumiaux (violin) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam / Sir Colin Davis [Beethoven] Heinz Wallberg [Bruch] [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Aug/2006 ] "Colin Davis and the Concertgebouw fill the hall with perfectly phrased and timed support, and the engineers have captured it all from an ideal perspective, providing fullness and detail together." (SA-CD.Net) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Brahms: Double Concerto / Beethoven: Violin Sonatas (1950-1951) Artur Balsam (Piano) / Vladimir Horowitz (Piano) / Philadelphia Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 14/Sep/2006 ] In contrast to Oistrakh, Milstein did not develop a rapport with Stolyarsky: at an early age he developed an ironic, independent viewpoint, and a scepticism towards those in authority which would not have served him well in post-Revolution Russia. |
DEBUSSY / TAKEMITSU
Music for String Orchestra Jonathan Morton (violin) / Scottish Ensemble [ Linn / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] '...the Debussy [was] a successful orchestral exercise that revealed the revolution around the corner...SE's playing was dazzling.' The Herald |
EARL KIM
Kim: Violin Concerto / Dialogues / Cornet Cecylia Arzewski (violin) / Ireland RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Scott Yoo [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Aug/2019 ] Earl Kim was born in 1920 in Dinuba, California and studied with Arnold Schoenberg, Ernst Bloch, and Roger Sessions. He was a professor at Princeton from 1952 to 1967 and at Harvard from then until 1998, and was the recipient of numerous awards and... |
NIKOS SKALKOTTAS
Skalkottas: Sinfonietta, Concerto and Suite Georgios Demertzis (violin), Vassilis Varvaresos (piano), Eleftherios Venizelos, Athens Philharmonia Orchestra, Byron Fidetzis [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] A disc of previously unrecorded works by the great Greek modernist |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS
Brahms Serenade No. 1 & Beethoven Romances Augustin Dumay (violin & conductor), Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra [ Onyx / CD - released 30/Sep/2013 ] Augustin Dumay's third CD for ONYX sees him as both conductor and violinist. Here on his latest CD we have the deliciously good natured 1st Serenade by Brahms, an early work stuffed full of great tunes, and some early Beethoven. |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Violin Concerto No. 2 Augustin Dumay (violin) / Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano [ ONYX / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2016 ] "The Concerto for Orchestra gets an upright and straight ahead performance, flecked with the string suppleness and woodwind finesse of mighty Montreal recordings of yore." (The Guardian) |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY / EDOUARDO LALO
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto / Lalo: Symphonie espagnole Augustin Hadelich (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Omer Meir Wellber & Vasily Petrenko [ LPO / CD - released 20/Mar/2017 ] "..Omer Meir Wellber drawing out Spanish fire and stamping heels from this colourful - and strangely neglected - score. Hadelich exudes bravado in the terrific Rondo finale" Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Concerto |
JEAN SIBELIUS / ADES
Sibelius / Ades: Violin Concertos Augustin Hadelich (violin) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Hannu Lintu [ Avie / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Complete Symphonies (Rec 1988-98) Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra / Adam Fischer, with Rainer Kachl (violin) [ Brilliant Classics / 33 CD - released 18/Aug/2005 ] "I didn't think I would ever home my sights on a box of all Haydn's symphonies that truly satisfies. Ultimately, I just bow my head to Joseph Haydn's genius and thank the current performers for putting so much energy and perception into this... |