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FRANZ WAXMAN
Rebecca (Film Score) Viktor Simcisko (violin) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adriano [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Nov/2005 ] "At budget price interested parties could hardly refuse such a textually intelligent, well-played and con amore production." (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
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ARVO PART
Arvo Part Viktoria Mullova (violin) / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi [ Onyx / CD - released 21/Sep/2018 ] "Immutable, austere, impassable - the strength of Arvo Pärt's music lies in its ability to project an image as powerful and complete as the religious iconography it often seeks to replicate." Gramophone |
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BEETHOVEN / MENDELSSOHN / BRUSTAD / GRIEG
Europakonzert 2016 from Røros, Norway - Beethoven: Symphony No 3 / Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto / etc Vilde Frang (violin) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] The Berliner Philharmoniker celebrate their founding day (May 1st, 1892) in a European city of cultural significance every year. In 2016, they travelled to Røros in Norway, to play in the town's beautiful baroque church. Norwegian violinist Vilde... |
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SAINT-SAENS / BLOCH / CHAUSSON / BRUCH / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
Incantation Virgil Boutellis-Taft (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen [ Aparté / CD - released 21/Feb/2020 ] Incantation holds many mysteries. The brilliant violinist Virgil Boutellis-Taft strips away the veil of its secret powers, the ones that lie inside his violin's fascinating chant. |
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BEETHOVEN / SAINT-SAENS / WEBER / BEN-HAIM / RAVEL
Joint Concert Tel Aviv (From the Fredric R. Mann Auditorium Tel Aviv 1990) Viviane Hagner (violin), Sharon Kam (clarinet) Berliner Philharmoniker, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 10/Nov/2012 ] Includes 11 minutes of documentary footage |
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Vov Dylan (violin) and the Palace Orchestra
Margaret Brandman's La Vida Apasionada [ Ambition / CD - released 21/Jun/2025 ] Classical ARIA chart topping artists Vov Dylan (Violin) and Margaret Brandman (Pianist and composer) unite to bring an album all new Australian compositions to life. |
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MORTON FELDMAN
Violin and Orchestra Carolin Widmann (violin) Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Emilio Pomarico [ Ecm New Series / CD - released 13/May/2013 ] Carolin Widmann's widely acclaimed ECM recordings have traversed a broad arc of music - from Schubert to Xenakis. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / RICHARD WAGNER / FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Furtwangler: Brahms/Wagner/Mendelssohn (Commercial Recordings 1940-50 Volume 6) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] All recordings from 1949 |
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DAVID GOMPPER
Violin Concerto / Ikon / Flip / Spirals Wolfgang David (violin) / Peter Zazofsky (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Emmanuel Siffert [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Honoured in 2009 with an Academy Award, David Gompper has travelled the world working as a pianist, conductor and composer, and developing a fascination with all manner of things, from the experience of echoes in the mountains, to the images of... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / KHATCHATURIAN
Tchaikovsky & Khachaturian: Piano Concertos Xiayin Wang (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian, with Maya Iwabuchi (violin) & Aleksei Kiseliov (cello) [ Chandos Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] "Xiayin Wang astounds at every turn, as does the recording; a terrific coupling, too." (MusicWeb March 2016) |
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PABLO de SARASATE
Sarasate: Music for Violin and Orchestra, Vol. 1 (Incls 'Zigeunerweisen') Yang Tianwa (Violin) / Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra / Ernest Martinez Izquierdo [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] "(Tianwa Yang) has bold tone, a bright sound and immaculate clarity in her left hand pizzicato; her conductor and orchestral accompanists accurately follow her weaving rubato." (MusicWeb Dec 2010) |
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PABLO de SARASATE
Sarasate: Music for Violin and Orchestra, Vol. 3 (Incls 'Fantasies on The Magic Flute & Faust') Yang Tianwa (Violin) / Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra / Ernest Martinez Izquierdo [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "She's a joy to listen to, and Ernest Izquierdo's accompaniments have all the poetry and shameless gusto that's necessary to convince us that we're listening to music of real quality, never mind the flash. Naxos' sonics offer ideal balances, and... |
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PAVLOVA
Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 Yaroslav Krasnikov (violin) / Georgy Khachikyan (organ) / Moscow Radio Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Oct/2005 ] "This work was done with very special inspiration. As a general comment, I can say that the concept of Symphony No. 4, to me, is very close to the idea of the painting by Nicholas Roerich Path to Shambala. I see this symphony as my personal 'path to... |
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ALLA PAVLOVA
Monolog / The Old New York Nostalgia / Sulamith (Suite) Yaroslav Krasnikov (violin) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Rossen Milanov (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] Alla Pavlova is a composer and musicologist. In 1983 she received her Master’s Degree at the Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms Cycle [Symphonies, Concertos & Overtures] (recorded in 2015) Yefim Bronfman (piano) Julia Fischer (violin) / The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most [ Belvedere / BBC Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Nov/2017 ] The Cleveland Orchestra is the aristocrat among American orchestras (The Telegraph) and its conductor, Franz Welser-Möst, rules his subjects with a velvet glove. Indeed, velvet and silk keep showing up in descriptions of the Clevelanders sound under... |
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W.A. MOZART
Violin Concerto No. 3 (with Paganini - Violin Concerto No. 1 (recorded 1934-1952) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Paris Symphony Orchestra / Adrian Boult / George Enescu / Pierre Monteux [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 12/Jan/2007 ] Not often does a recording change the public perception of a piece of music and its composer, but it happened when the 18-year-old Yehudi Menuhin set down this recording of Paganini’s First Concerto in Paris in May 1934. |
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BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Violin Concertos; Viola Concerto; Violin Rhapsody Nos. 1 & 2; etc Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Nell Gotkovsky (violin) / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Antal Dorati; BBC Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Boulez [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] Welcome to Gemini, the new two-for-the-price-of-one series from EMI Classics: 'Two CDs in perfect harmony for the price of one CD' |
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MENDELSSOHN / LALO
Violin Concerto / Symphonie Espagnole (with Chausson: Poeme) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Paris Symphony Orchestra / Orchestre des Concerts Colonne [ Naxos Historic Great Violinists / CD - released 3/Mar/2002 ] |
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BARTOK
Violin Concerto No. 2 / Violin Sonata No. 1 (recorded 1947 & 1953) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Wilhelm Furtwangler, with Adolph Baller, piano [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] Yehudi Menuhin commissioned and gave the first performance of Bartók's Sonata for Solo Violin and was an influential advocate of his music. This 1947 recording of the First Violin Sonata finds Menuhin in particularly intense and vivid form, his... |
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SCHUMANN / DVORAK
Violin Concertos (recorded 1936 & 1938) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York. Barbirolli [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 3/Sep/2002 ] "Rarely performed or recorded, this concerto nonetheless is stirring and evocative of Schumann's broader orchestral writing" Classics Today |