Sibelius: Violin Concerto

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If there's a star on this disc it's Anni Kuusimäki, the harpist in the brief but weirdly touching tone-poem The Bard...Zimmermann is determined to peel off the mould of tradition and open up... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Aug 2010
Catalogue No: ODE1147-2
Label: Ondine
Length: 62 minutes

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Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

Work length30:33

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Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgårds
Recorded: 19-20 November 2008
Recording Venue: Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland

I. Allegro moderato

Track length15:09

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II. Adagio di molto

Track length8:17

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III. Allegro ma non tanto

Track length7:07

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Sibelius: The Bard, Op. 64

Work length8:15

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Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgårds
Recorded: 18 March 2010
Recording Venue: Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland

Sibelius: The Wood-Nymph (Skogsrået), Op. 15

Work length24:04

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Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgårds
Recorded: 29 January 2010
Recording Venue: Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland

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This CD features German star violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann as soloist in the virtuoso Sibelius Violin Concerto. The work remains one of the most popular late Romantic concertos in the catalogue.

Frank Peter Zimmermann’s hallmark on this recording is his electrifying approach to the dazzling finale; few performers reach Sibelius’s demanding tempo recommendation for this movement, which critics have described as an ‘invocation’ filled with ‘demonic passion’.

The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under chief conductor John Storgårds also perform two powerful rarities by the same composer, the symphonic poems The Bard and The Wood Nymph.

The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra has unique credentials in performing Sibelius’s music, having premiered these tone poems a century ago, conducted by Sibelius himself.

Reviews

February 2011

If there's a star on this disc it's Anni Kuusimäki, the harpist in the brief but weirdly touching tone-poem The Bard...Zimmermann is determined to peel off the mould of tradition and open up the work afresh...and accordingly gives us an urgent, powerfully driven view of this [first] movement.

December 2010

Zimmermann...commits to the music with a controlled emotion, delivering a certain coolness to the first movement which moderates slightly as the passion intensifies for the second...The orchestral playing is incisive, rich and powerful especially in the two tone poems

January 2011

With his gorgeously ripe tone, easy swagger and intoxicating range of colour, Zimmermann is every inch the master. Storgårds, too, conducts with alert udnerstanding: those punchy tuttis in the first movement where Sibelius lets the orchestra off the leash are handled with watchful authority.

17th September 2010

Frank Peter Zimmermann matches intensity with passionate virtuosity in this performance of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, the Helsinki Philharmonic providing a backcloth of impressive detail, strength and incisiveness.

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