Prokofiev: Violin Concertos

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Gluzman makes the melody sound endless; all lines are perfectly directed towards their goals…[his] pure intonation is a constant glory, haloed in natural sound…a thing of great beauty — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Sep 2016
Catalogue No: BIS2142
Label: BIS
Length: 60 minutes

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Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19

Work length21:09

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Vadim Gluzman
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

I. Andantino

Track length9:15

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II. Scherzo. Vivacissimo

Track length4:00

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III. Moderato - Allegro moderato

Track length7:54

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Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63

Work length26:48

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Vadim Gluzman
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

I. Allegro moderato

Track length10:30

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II. Andante assai - Allegretto

Track length10:02

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III. Allegro, ben marcato

Track length6:16

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Prokofiev: Sonata in D major for solo violin, Op. 115

Work length12:21

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Vadim Gluzman

I. Moderato

Track length5:05

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II. Andante dolce. Tema con variazioni

Track length3:14

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III. Con brio - Allegro precipitato

Track length4:02

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Nathan Milstein once described Sergei Prokofiev’s first violin concerto as ‘one of the best modern violin concertos… a brilliant piece, perhaps the finest of all Prokofiev’s works’, while the second concerto was taken up by violinists such as David Oistrakh and Jascha Heifetz. Here the two works are interpreted by the Ukrainian-born Vadim Gluzman, who as many critics have remarked is firmly based in the glorious tradition of these and other virtuosos of the 19th and 20th centuries. His several discs for BIS have included concertos by Tchaikovsky and Bruch as well as by Gubaidulina and Barber, earning him accolades such as Diapason d’or de l’année, and numerous recommendations by magazines and websites including The Strad, BBC Music Magazine, Fono Forum and ClassicsToday.com. On the present disc, Gluzman is supported by the eminent Estonian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi, with impressive credentials in Prokofiev’s music. Gluzman rounds off the programme with Prokofiev’s only solo work for the violin, the Sonata in D major, Op.115 – one of the composer’s less familiar compositions for the instrument. Strictly speaking it is a sonata for several violins: Prokofiev wrote the piece in 1947 to be played in unison by violin students. Despite its pedagogical purpose, the sonata is far more than just a technical exercise, however, presenting an overwhelming richness of ideas and emotions within a short time-frame.

Reviews

November 2016

Gluzman makes the melody sound endless; all lines are perfectly directed towards their goals…[his] pure intonation is a constant glory, haloed in natural sound…a thing of great beauty

Awards Issue 2016

Gluzman is as feisty a storyteller as any I’ve heard…[his] all-out style is ideally suited to the beefier, proto-Soviet idiom of the Second Concerto…[this is a] rather special hybrid SACD.

19th October 2016

Gluzman and Järvi don’t disappoint in Prokofiev violin concertos.

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