Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 99, etc.

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This warmly engineered live performance positively bristles with atmosphere and conviction. Leila Josefowicz projects a sense of narrative in the solo part, nowhere more convincingly realised... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 22nd May 2006
Catalogue No: 2564629972
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 68 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

July 2006

Orchestral Choice

Excerpt, Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 99

Work length17:37

$2.60

$3.40

Leila Josefowicz (violin)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo

I Nocturne

Track length11:00

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$1.70

II Scherzo

Track length6:37

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Excerpt, Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 99

Work length20:04

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Leila Josefowicz (violin)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo

III Passacaille

Track length14:40

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$1.70

IV Burlesque

Track length5:24

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Shostakovich: Violin Sonata, Op. 134

Work length31:12

$3.90

$5.10

Leila Josefowicz (violin), John Novacek (piano)

I Andante

Track length10:55

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$1.70

II Allegretto

Track length6:23

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$1.70

III Largo Andante

Track length13:54

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$1.70

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July 2006

This warmly engineered live performance positively bristles with atmosphere and conviction. Leila Josefowicz projects a sense of narrative in the solo part, nowhere more convincingly realised than in an exceptionally compelling build-up of tension through the long cadenza. ...the tempo chosen for the opening Nocturne may seem somewhat on the fast side, but Sakari Omaro and the CBSO shape the desolate orchestral accompaniment with wonderful awareness of the music's underlying fragility and loneliness. Indeed the partnership between soloist, conductor and orchestra is consistently incisive with innumerable textural details imaginatively brought to the fore. Similar qualities abound in the studio performance of the Violin Sonata... The central scherzo (Allegretto), delivered with unremitting vehemence by Josefowicz and her excellent partner John Novacek, provide the necessary contrast to the largely introspective qualities of the work as a whole.

July 2006

Leila Josefowicz gives an effective shape to the Concerto's soliloquising first movement… Only in the Scherzo is there some want of weight, but she has wisely kept her powder dry for a stern account of the Passacaglia… The cadenza sets out with classical restraint, only gradually intensifying towards glassy yowls and sheets of chords that are not a million miles distant from a Hendrix solo. It's the high-point of a thoughtful and thoroughly modern conception... The small rhythmic and intonational irregularities of Josefowicz's playing in concert are absent from a terrific studio account of the much later Violin Sonata.

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 99, etc.

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