Mendelssohn, Berg & Bruch: Violin Concertos

Suk at his incomparably eloquent, unaffacted best. Ancerl and the Czech PO provide luminous support, and Supraphon's mid-60s sound has come up very freshly.
Josef Suk gives an outstanding... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: SU36632
Label: Supraphon
Series: Ancerl Gold Edition

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Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

Josef Suk (violin)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl

Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26

Josef Suk (violin)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl

Berg: Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel' (1935)

Josef Suk (violin)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl

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Suk at his incomparably eloquent, unaffacted best. Ancerl and the Czech PO provide luminous support, and Supraphon's mid-60s sound has come up very freshly.
Josef Suk gives an outstanding performance of the Mendelssohn – his playing combines his usual technical polish and fine tone with unaffected expression. The orchestra has exemplary internal balance and rhythmic poise. The Bruch has similar virtues, and there's more great music-making in the Berg. The sound has been remastered and is uncommonly clear: highly recommended.

May 2010

Teetering on the brink of expressive exaggeration in the more reflective moments of the first movement [of the Berg] and resisting queasy intimacy in the second in favour of a very public kind of emotional outpouring, the sheer conviction of the whole enterprise carries all before it.

Mendelssohn, Berg & Bruch: Violin Concertos

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