Ysaye & Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 75th Anniversary

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Ysaye & Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 75th Anniversary

Vadim Repin (violin), Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Gidon Kremer (violin), Philippe Hirshhorn (violin), Kristóf Baráti (violin), Miriam Fried (violin), Yossif Ivanov (violin), Barnabás Kelemen (violin)

Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre Royal Philharmonique des Flandres & Orchestre Symphonique...

The listener is immediately aware that each performance is a special occasion for the soloist, leading to some compelling music-making...Vadim Repin (1989) is especially thrilling in the finale... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2012 More…

Release Date: 6th Feb 2012
Catalogue No: MU002
Label: muso
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

Work length35:57

Album only

Vadim Repin
National Orchestra of Belgium
Georges Octors

I. Allegro moderato

Track length18:55

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II. Canzonetta

Track length6:37

$1.00

$1.50

III. Allegro vivacissimo

Track length10:25

$1.50

$2.30

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

Work length29:54

$5.05

$7.65

Nikolaj Znaider
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders
Marc Soustrot

I. Allegro moderato

Track length14:58

$2.05

$3.05

II. Adadio di molto

Track length7:15

$1.50

$2.30

Allegro ma non tanto

Track length7:41

$1.50

$2.30

Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61

Work length39:58

Album only

Gidon Kremer
National Orchestra of Belgium
René Defossez

I. Allegro

Track length16:28

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II. Andante

Track length10:04

$1.50

$2.30

III. Allegro molto

Track length13:26

$2.05

$3.05

Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 6

Work length32:52

Album only

Philippe Hirshhorn
National Orchestra of Belgium
René Defossez

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length18:30

Album only

II. Adagio espressivo

Track length4:33

$1.00

$1.50

Allegro spiritoso

Track length9:49

$1.50

$2.30

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

Work length44:14

Album only

Kristóf Baráti
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders
Marc Soustrot

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length24:25

Album only

II. Larghetto

Track length9:25

$1.50

$2.30

III. Rondo (Allegro)

Track length10:24

$1.50

$2.30

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

Work length27:00

$4.55

$6.85

Miriam Fried
Symphony Orchestra of the RTB/BRT
Daniel Sternefeld

I. Allegro molto appassionato

Track length12:35

$2.05

$3.05

II. Andante

Track length7:58

$1.50

$2.30

III. Allegretto non troppo - Allegro molto vivace

Track length6:27

$1.00

$1.50

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77 (99)

Work length36:41

$6.10

$9.10

Yossif Ivanov
National Orchestra of Belgium
Gilbert Varga

I. Nocturne

Track length11:31

$2.05

$3.05

II. Scherzo

Track length6:30

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$1.50

III. Passacaglia

Track length13:26

$2.05

$3.05

IV. Burlesque

Track length5:14

$1.00

$1.50

Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz 112

Work length36:15

Album only

Barnabás Kelemen
National Orchestra of Belgium
Gilbert Varga

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length15:44

Album only

II. Andante tranquillo

Track length8:56

$1.50

$2.30

III. Allegro molto

Track length11:35

$2.05

$3.05

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In 2012 the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Eugène Ysaÿe Competition, drawing on its extensive archive of unreleased recordings to put together a 4CD set containing 8 of the most celebrated violin concertos as performed by the laureates. Handsomely presented as a CD-book, with texts, photographs and reminiscences it contains live recordings made between 1967 and 2005, which were painstakingly remastered in 2011 in order to ensure optimal sound quality for today’s listeners.

Founded in 1937 the first Ysaÿe Competition brought to Brussels a number of talented young violinists and the name of the first laureate shows just how high the standard was: David Oistrakh! After WWII, the Competition was revived in 1951, when it took the name of its patron Queen Elisabeth. The list of laureates over 75 years is dazzling: Kogan, Senofsky, Sitkovetsky, Laredo, Michlin, Hirshhorn, Kremer, Fried, Horigome, Repin, Znaider, Skride and Khachatryan, to name but a few.

The set opens in 1967 with the Paganini Concerto, played by Philippe Hirshhorn, a great artist and teacher, who died in 1996, but not before he had influenced several generations of musicians; the Elgar Concerto as interpreted by Gidon Kremer, never previously available on disc; performances by Miriam Fried in Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky from Vadim Repin in 1989 and an equally memorable performance of the Sibelius by Nikolaj Znaider from 1997, the same year as Kristóf Baráti’s superb Beethoven. The compilation concludes with two laureates from the past decade: the Hungarian violinist Barnabás Kelemen playing Bartók and, finally, Belgium’s own Yossif Ivanov in the Shostakovich.

Artists

Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre Royal Philharmonique des Flandres & Orchestre Symphonique de la RTB / BRT, René Defossez, Georges Octors, Marc Soustrot, Daniel Sternefeld & Gilbert Varga

Reviews

May 2012

The listener is immediately aware that each performance is a special occasion for the soloist, leading to some compelling music-making...Vadim Repin (1989) is especially thrilling in the finale of the Tchaikovsky...At the same competition, Kristof Barati's Beethoven gives us immaculate playing with lovely clear tone.

Ysaye & Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 75th Anniversary

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