Adams: Violin Concerto, Corigliano: Red Violin 'Chaconne'

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It's excellent sense to couple John Adams's Violin Concerto with John Corigliano's Chaconne based on his film music for The Red Violin. Both require bravura of the highest order… This is the... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Aug 2006
Catalogue No: 8559302
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Length: 63 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

4th August 2008

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Corigliano, J: The Red Violin

Work length16:48

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Chloë Hanslip
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin

Chaconne for Violin & Orchestra

Track length16:48

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Enescu: 2 Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11

Work length2:26

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Chloë Hanslip
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin

No. 1 in A Major (Arr. F. Waxman)

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Waxman, F: Tristan & Isolde Fantasia

Work length11:02

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Chloë Hanslip, Charles Owen
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin

Adams, J: Violin Concerto

Work length33:30

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Chloë Hanslip
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin

I. Quarter note = 78

Track length15:19

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II. Chaconne (Body Through Which the Dream Flows)

Track length10:49

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III. Toccare

Track length7:22

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Recording of the Week, Chloë Hanslip and the unfamiliar

4th August 2008

The young British violinist ventures off the beaten track with concertos by John Adams and John Corigliano, and a recital of virtuoso showpieces by Antonio Bazzini, best known for his fiendish ‘Dance of the Goblins’.

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October 2006

It's excellent sense to couple John Adams's Violin Concerto with John Corigliano's Chaconne based on his film music for The Red Violin. Both require bravura of the highest order… This is the fourth recording of the Adams Concerto. …Hanslip's new version seems to me undoubtedly the one to acquire.

2010

As an overall concept this album is a mess. Franz Waxman's arrangement of Enescu's First Romanian Rhapsody is positioned before the Adams Concerto and sounds like an encore before the main event. Waxman's Tristan and Isolde Fantasia pushes Wagner towards Cecil B DeMille histrionics, while John Corigliano's hacked-together Chaconne is episodic and rhetorical and is severely lacking in the material department.
This is a pity because nothing should hide the fact that Chloë Hanslip is the sort of musician every teenager forced to practise their scales dreams of becoming. The richness and clarity of her tone is beyond learning, and she demonstrates such profound empathy for John Adams's 1993 Violin Concerto that Gidon Kremer (Nonesuch) can consider himself completely outplayed. This is the sort of performance that secures a reputation for life.
The first movement is a particular challenge, as an unwinding melodic line generates itself over a quarter-hour span. Kremer plays the notes mechanically but Hanslip deconstructs their meaning and pieces together a cogent narrative direction that's a bona fide interpretation.
The sing-song ballad quality of the slow middle movement unlocks her lyrical imagination, while the tricky moto perpetuo of the violin part zigzags and breakdances across occasional Nancarrow-like rhythmic overlays in an exuberant finale. Assertive and enthused accompaniment from Slatkin and the RPO, too – everybody's doing Adams the greatest of service.

October 2006

…Chloë Hanslip is the sort of musician every teenager forced to practise their scales dreams of becoming. The richness and clarity of her tone is beyond learning, and she demonstrates such profound empathy for John Adams's 1993 Violin Concerto that Gidon Kremer... consider himself completely outplayed. This is the sort of performance that secures a reputation for life.

Adams: Violin Concerto, Corigliano: Red Violin 'Chaconne'

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