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Moszkowski & Karlowicz: Violin Concertos

Tasmin Little; Martyn Brabbins: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA67389

Release Date:  01 April 2004

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571173894

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

  • Description

    Hyperion’s Record of the Month for April is the fourth volume in the burgeoning ‘Romantic Violin Concerto’ series. The central work on the disc is Moritz Moszkowski’s C major Violin Concerto, a full-blooded Romantic work which demands exceptional virtuosity. An increasing number of recordings, many on the Hyperion label, of this composer’s music have done much to lift his reputation beyond that of the ‘trifling miniaturist’, and the Ballade in G minor amply demonstrates how even a small canvas can aspire to advanced heights of pyrotechnic wizardry. How much better known might MieczysLaw KarLowicz have become had he not been struck down in his prime by an avalanche. What works do survive place KarLowicz firmly alongside the ‘progressive neo-Romantics’—with Wagner and Richard Strauss at their head—and his reputation today is largely based on a set of six symphonic poems composed in the last few years of his life. The Violin Concerto dates from the same period. KarLowicz places considerable demands on the soloist as he exploits the instrument’s full potential but, as with Moszkowski’s Concerto, the required virtuosity never seems superfluous. Martyn Brabbins again leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, this time in support of Tasmin Little, whose twenty or so recordings and innumerable worldwide concert appearances have won for her an enviable reputation as one of today’s leading violinists. This is her first recording for Hyperion.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 35
      • 2. Romanza: Andante
      • 3. Vivace Assai
      • 4. Ballade in G Minor
      • 5. Allegro Comodo
      • 6. Andante - Allegretto Tranquillo - Andante
      • 7. Vivace