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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. |
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 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Ultimate Classical Relaxation (Incls 'Air on a G string', Meditation from Thais, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik & Dance of the Hours) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Kyung Wha Chung (violin) Alicia de Larrocha (piano) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra [ Decca / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Mar/2008 ] This set includes two CDs devoted to the music of J.S. Bach and one devoted to Tchaikovsky. The remaining two contain a sublime programme of music by Dvorák, Barber, Saint-Saëns, Bruch, Canteloube and many more. |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Violin Concerto No. 1 / Lady Macbeth Suite Vladmir Spivakov (violin) / Garzenich Orchestra Cologne Philharmonic / James Conlon (director) [ Capriccio SACD / 2 SACD - released 29/Sep/2005 ] Capriccio launches an ambitious recording project with Russian violinist Vladmir Spivakov and American conductor james Conlon: violin concertos of the 20th century. The first recording to be issued includes Dmitri Shostakovitch's First Violin... |
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. |
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 |
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... |
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) |
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) |
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... |
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... |
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. |
BEETHOVEN / MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / WAGNER / FRANCK / etc
The complete Wilhelm Furtwangler on record Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Edwin Fisher (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler [ Warner Classics / 55 CD Box Set - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Wilhelm Furtwängler is a musical titan, one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century. Some would say he is the greatest of all. A supreme, inimitable interpreter of the Austro-German symphonic repertoire, and of Wagner's music dramas. |
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. |
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' |
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 ] |
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... |
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 |
W.A. MOZART / BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 / Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (Furtwangler, Commercial Recordings 1940-50, Vol. 3) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Wilhelm Furtwangler (conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 19/Jun/2006 ] "Furtwängler's commercial legacy wasn't huge so collectors will welcome this latest instalment with alacrity" (MusicWeb July 2006) |
DVORAK / HERBERT / BRITTEN / BRAHMS / SAINT-SAENS / BACH / WALTON / etc
Yo-Yo Ma: The Classical Cello Collection Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / with Emanuel Ax (piano) / New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Masur, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman, etc [ Sony Classical / 15 CD Box Set - released 21/Dec/2016 ] Excellent value, budget-priced x15 CD Box-set. The set features great works from the classical cello repertoire with compositions by 23 classical composers. |
