Schumann: Violin Concertos & Phantasie

[the Concerto] has a slow movement of otherworldly beauty… Baiba Skride negotiates it admirably… her silky pianissimo playing in the Violin Concerto is a decided asset. It’s a valuable and enterprising... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013 More…

Release Date: 2nd Sep 2013
Catalogue No: C854131A
Label: Orfeo
Length: 71 minutes

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Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23

Work length33:38

$8.00

$9.60

Baiba Skride (violin)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
John Storgårds
Recorded: 16-18 August 2011
Recording Venue: DR Concert Hall Copenhagen, Denmark

I. In kraftigem, nicht zu schnellem Tempo

Track length16:21

$4.00

$4.80

II. Langsam

Track length6:36

$1.00

$1.20

III. Lebhaft doch nicht schnell

Track length10:41

$3.00

$3.60

Schumann: Fantasie in C major for Violin and Orchestra, Op.131

Work length14:59

$3.00

$3.60

Baiba Skride (violin)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
John Storgårds
Recorded: 16 November 2012
Recording Venue: DR Concert Hall Copenhagen, Denmark

Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129

Work length22:37

$6.00

$7.20

Baiba Skride (violin)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
John Storgårds
Recorded: 16-18 August 2011
Recording Venue: DR Concert Hall Copenhagen, Denmark

I. Nicht zu schnell

Track length10:49

$3.00

$3.60

II. Langsam

Track length4:20

$1.00

$1.20

III. Sehr lebhaft

Track length7:28

$2.00

$2.40

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These works were written in the last three years of Schumann's life, and it was a stroke of ill luck that the Violin Concerto in D Minor was completed in 1854 just as Schumann succumbed to mental illness. Baiba Skride now offers her performer’s perspective on Schumann’s violin oeuvre by recording not just the Violin Concerto but also the 'Phantasie' Op. 131 and the Concerto in A Minor Op. 129. The last of these is an arrangement for violin of Schumann’s Cello Concerto that the composer himself made for Joachim. During Schumann’s own lifetime it was the 'Phantasie' that had most recognition with its rhythmic vigour and highly virtuosic cadenza. Baiba Skride’s rapport here with the conductor John Storgårds (a former violinist) and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, one of the great European orchestras in Romantic repertoire, offers an ideal combination that is ideal for Schumann.

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Christmas Issue 2013

[the Concerto] has a slow movement of otherworldly beauty… Baiba Skride negotiates it admirably… her silky pianissimo playing in the Violin Concerto is a decided asset. It’s a valuable and enterprising disc.

4th September 2013

The more elegiac framework of the slow movement was upholstered with the sonorities of muted strings, their phrasing tapered to perfection

October 2013

Skride is their ideal exponent...The beauty of this disc is that Skride, Storgards and the excellent Danish orchestra make the music sound utterly new, so that even if you own one or more of the [other recordings] you still stand to learn a great deal from listening to it.

22nd August 2013

her recording comes closer than any other to bringing the work alive...she seizes on every opportunity to give the music real buoyancy and purpose, and finds profundity and fragile beauty in the slow movement.

Classical Music September 2013

From the opening tutti of the D minor concertos, Skride and Storgards unite to give a powerful, richly romantic view of Schumann’s works for violin and orchestra. Skride plays with impressive depth of tone and beauty of sound

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