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This show is stolen by the viola playing of Jodi Levitz and fortepianist Eric Zivian in the Märchenbilder. Levitz’s narrative flair, virtually technicolored tone and warmth of emotional identification... —
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Borac plays with technical assurance and the utmost sensitivity. The London recording of the Concertino is a litle lacking in intimacy; the Berlin solo recordings have a church acoustic that... —
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Um has a fine sheen to her tone, with plenty of muscle at the lower end, aided by the close placement of the microphones. —
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Bartók & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos
Augustin Hadelich (violin)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya
[Hadelich] manages to make this supposedly 'difficult' work sound as approachable and lyrical as any Romantic warhorse…his expressive range traverses a satisfying sonic rainbow as the work progresses;... —
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Vivaldi: Gods, Emperors & Angels
Concertos for recorder, violin, bassoon & strings
Sara Deborah Struntz (violin), Pamela Thorby (recorder), Peter Whelan (bassoon)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler (violin/director)
Whelan with Pamela Thorby provide an evenly balanced partnership with plenty of tasteful ornaments. —
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Rêves - Ysaÿe: Violin Concerto in E minor & Poème concertant
Philippe Graffin (violin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Marisa Gupta
Both works are dark and virtuosic, and Graff in rises to the challenge, his fragile yet def iant instrument soaring above brooding orchestral forces. —
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Per Monsieur Pisendel 2
Adrian Chandler (violin), Gareth Deats (cello), Thomas Dunford (theorbo) & Robert Howarth (harpsichord)
La Serenissima
Most remarkable of all is the Sonata in A minor, a truly virtuoso piece which is said, not without justification, to have inspired Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. It is given here... —
