Wieniawski & Conus: Violin Concertos

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Vigorous playing in these Romantic showpieces, although greater tonal weight and focus is needed, especially in the lyrical moments — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 14th Jan 2013
Catalogue No: ONYX4109
Label: Onyx
Length: 69 minutes

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Henryk Wieniasky: Violin Concerto No. 1 In F-Sharp Minor, Op.14

Work length20:22

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Soo-Hyun Park, Orchestre Philharmonique de Rhénanie-Palatinat, Nicholas Milton

I. Allegro Moderato

Track length8:20

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II. Preghiera: Larghetto

Track length4:28

$1.00

$1.40

III. Rondo: Allegro Giocoso

Track length7:34

$1.50

$2.10

Julius Conus: Violin Concerto In E Minor, Op.1

Work length21:04

$4.00

$5.60

Soo-Hyun Park, Orchestre Philharmonique de Rhénanie-Palatinat, Nicholas Milton

I. Allegro Molto

Track length8:16

$1.50

$2.10

II. Adagio

Track length3:55

$1.00

$1.40

II. Cadenza - Allegro Subito

Track length8:53

$1.50

$2.10

Henri Vieuxtemp: Fantasia Appassionata In G Minor, Op.35

Work length9:55

Album only

Soo-Hyun Park, Orchestre Philharmonique de Rhénanie-Palatinat, Nicholas Milton

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Soo-Hyun Park was unanimously awarded the Prix Groupe Edmond de Rothschild in January 2012, at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad. The prize offers the winner the opportunity to record their debut recording with an orchestra. Born in Seoul in 1989, Soo- Hyun Park began playing the violin at the age of seven. Since 1999 she has attended the masterclasses of Dora Schwarzberg at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, where she also enjoys teaching. Her highly virtuosic programme includes Wieniawski’s passionate first concerto and a work once championed by Jascha Heifetz, the concerto by Julius Conus. Conus studied under Arensky and Taneyev and was a close friend of Rachmaninov from student days and through both composers’ time in the USA. Conus’s son married Rachmaninov’s daughter. His one major work is this highly effective and well-constructed showpiece for the violin. Vieuxtemps’ 'Fantasia appassionata' is a miniature concerto, with a passionate central movement and a fiendishly challenging ‘salterella’ finale. The composer was famous for his technical dexterity, and this work gives some idea of how phenomenal his technique must have been.

Soo-Hyun has performed in Europe as well as China and Korea. She has performed at the Mozartsaal of the Vienna Konzerthaus and in Tianjin with the city’s symphony orchestra in a concert broadcast live on both radio and television.

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April 2013

Vigorous playing in these Romantic showpieces, although greater tonal weight and focus is needed, especially in the lyrical moments

April 2013

Soo-Hyun Park embraces all the challenges without turning a hair, and also contrives to give Wieniawski's passagework an expressive and poetic quality...Park's reflective approach to the Vieuxtemps results in a beautiful performance that's certainly not short of vivacity but maybe it doesn't capture the work's extrovert theatricality...The accompaniments, too, are excellent.

April 2013

A winning lyrical approach to a trio of virtuoso showpieces … a naturally balanced recording round out a fine release

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