12 Stradivari

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Overall, what leaps out is the sheer quality, consistency and stylishness of Janine Jansen’s playing. She conjures up the mood of each piece with seemingly effortless and flawless technique...Pappano... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Sep 2021
Catalogue No: 4851605
Label: Decca
Length: 59 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

10th September 2021
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Falla: Danse Espagnole No. 1 (from La Vida Breve)

Work length3:41

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Suk: Love Song, Op. 7 No. 1

Work length6:35

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Schumann, Clara: Romances (3), Op. 22: No. 1 - Andante Molto

Work length3:06

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73: No. 1. Zart und mit Ausdruck

Work length3:05

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Vieuxtemps: Dèsespoir

Work length2:35

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Tchaikovsky: Kuda, Kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (from Eugene Onegin)

Work length6:22

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Szymanowski: La Fontaine de Aréthuse

Work length5:23

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Ravel: Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera

Work length3:03

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Arr. Catherine for Violin and Piano
Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Elgar: Sospiri, Op. 70

Work length4:25

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 - Andante

Work length5:49

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42: Mélodie in E flat major

Work length3:44

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Heuberger: Midnight Bells (from Der Opernball)

Work length3:15

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Kreisler: Syncopation

Work length2:17

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Kreisler: Liebesleid

Work length3:50

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

Kern: Yesterdays (from Roberta)

Work length2:24

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Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2020-12-02
Recording Venue: Cadogan Hall, London

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Recording of the Week, Janine Jansen plays twelve Stradivari

10th September 2021

Janine Jansen, accompanied by Antonio Pappano, explores the unique sounds of twelve different Stradivari violins in a unusual and fascinating recording project.

For the first time in history, twelve of the most wonderful violins ever made by the finest violin maker of all time, Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737), have travelled across the world for a ground-breaking new project with violin superstar Janine Jansen. The resulting album, 12 Stradivari, captures the individual characters of each instrument in specially-curated music accompanied by Sir Antonio Pappano at the piano.

These days Stradivari’s instruments can reach prices well over $20 million and some of the foundations and museums who own them let them out only on rare occasions. This is also why this recording is particularly special: some of these 12 Stradivari have not been played for many decades and, possibly, have never ben commercially recorded before. Others belonged to legendary virtuosi including Fritz Kreisler, Nathan Milstein, Ida Haendel and Oscar Shumsky. Janine herself is widely considered to be one of the greatest violinists of our time, and this album is her first release with Decca in 6 years.

The project was devised by Steven Smith, Managing Director of the world’s pre-eminent violin dealers, J & A Beare. Having worked with Stradivari instruments his entire career he wanted to bring 12 of the very best violins together to show their brilliance and also their differences. He also wanted to record for posterity their sounds in one single, unique record and approached Janine and Decca for the extraordinary challenge. Smith knew where in the world the 12 violins for this project were and who owned them. In spite of the numerous logistic challenges of aligning the schedules of all the owners and players at a time when travelling was at its most difficult, he was able to create a two-week-period when all violins could be flown to London.

Janine says: “When Steven Smith approached me about this project, I knew it was a once in a lifetime opportunity! It was my chance to experience the magic of these famous instruments and to explore the differences between them, especially bearing in mind that some of them have not been played in many years. I was very fortunate to be able to share this experience with my wonderful collaborator Sir Antonio Pappano.”

This unique project is brilliantly captured through an unmissable documentary named Janine Jansen: Falling for Stradivari. The film follows Janine’s unrepeatable experience of discovering each instrument’s individual qualities and immense capabilities. Her working relationship with Sir Antonio Pappano reveals the astounding energy, dedication and abundance of creativity needed to conquer such a formidable challenge. Directed by BAFTA award-winning Gerry Fox, Falling for Stradivari will be premiered at Curzon cinemas in the UK in September, 2021.

Janine’s recording debut in 2003 achieved epic success within the initial rise of digital sales, and to date she has 850k units sold with Decca and over 106 million streams. She has won numerous prizes, including the Herbert-von-Karajan Preis 2020, the Vermeer Prize 2018 awarded by the Dutch government, five Edison Klassiek Awards, NDR Musikpreis for outstanding artistic achievement, the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award for performances in the UK and the Concertgebouw Prize to name just a few.

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November 2021

Overall, what leaps out is the sheer quality, consistency and stylishness of Janine Jansen’s playing. She conjures up the mood of each piece with seemingly effortless and flawless technique...Pappano is a sensitive partner, bending the pulse of the music to respond to Jansen’s organic rubato.

Awards Issue 2021

What emerges from this comparative listening odyssey...is simply an even richer love and admiration for Jansen’s own artistry.

10th September 2021

The repertoire she’s chosen may consciously look back to a different age, one marked by sensibilities that might seem saccharine or even mawkish to some today, but by showcasing these twelve remarkable instruments and committing herself fully to the beauty of that soundworld, she demonstrates that they are very much more than museum pieces.

8th September 2021

Tones on offer from this complex assemblage, arranged through the violin specialist J & A Beare, range from brilliant to dainty, ethereal to smoky, each more or less suited to the 15 short pieces played, ranging from Schumann to Jerome Kern.

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