Prokofiev: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Matthew Trusler (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn
Matthew Trusler is a scrupulous and engaging soloist…Llewellyn and BBC NOW accompany very effectively in the Second Concerto; their generally understated approach works well here, and Llewellyn...
Prokofiev: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Matthew Trusler (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn
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Matthew Trusler is a scrupulous and engaging soloist…Llewellyn and BBC NOW accompany very effectively in the Second Concerto; their generally understated approach works well here, and Llewellyn...
About
Matthew Trusler is one of Britain’s leading violinists performing with many of the world’s great orchestras, and receiving critical acclaim for his diverse array of recordings.
Music Director of the North Carolina Symphony and Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne, Grant Llewellyn is renowned for his exceptional charisma, energy and easy authority in music of all styles and periods.
“One of the best modern violin concertos…a brilliant piece, perhaps the finest of all Prokofiev’s works.” Nathan Milstein on the first Violin Concerto.
Contents and tracklist
- Matthew Trusler
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Grant Llewellyn
- Matthew Trusler
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Grant Llewellyn
Awards and reviews
September 2017
Matthew Trusler is a scrupulous and engaging soloist…Llewellyn and BBC NOW accompany very effectively in the Second Concerto; their generally understated approach works well here, and Llewellyn introduces an edgy flexibility of tempo in the finale to exciting effect
September 2017
I do not recall this movement being better done, not even by Oistrakh. The rasping finale has all the inspiriting skimming and scuffing abrasion of the First Concerto but here mobilised as a Russian country dance.
29th June 2017
You may hear these works played with more obvious pizzazz, but not with such a sense of every line being thought through, of every phrase having a direction in which to go and something to say. Trusler’s sound is strong, ardent and occasionally a little swoopy; it is captured relatively close, but the tone is confiding, rather than hectoring.
