Brahms: Violin Concerto & Violin Sonata No. 1

Gluzman [plays with] heartfelt eloquence and unbridled passion [in the Violin Concerto]…Gaffigan’s unfailingly attentive Lucerne players sound almost chamber-like in their textural detailing…in... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Jun 2017
Catalogue No: BIS2172
Label: BIS
Length: 72 minutes

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Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

Work length39:33

Album only

Vadim Gluzman (violin)
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester
James Gaffigan
Recorded: November 2015
Recording Venue: Culture and Convention Center, Lucerne

I. Allegro non troppo (cadenza by J. Joachim)

Track length22:37

Album only

II. Adagio

Track length8:43

$2.00

$2.40

$3.50

III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace

Track length8:13

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Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78

Work length27:17

$7.00

$8.40

$12.25

Vadim Gluzman (violin), Angela Yoffe (piano)
Recorded: July 2015
Recording Venue: Sendesaal Bremen

I. Vivace, ma non troppo

Track length10:59

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$3.60

$5.25

II. Adagio

Track length7:18

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III. Allegro molto moderato

Track length9:00

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Brahms: Sonatensatz (Scherzo from the F.A.E. sonata), WoO 2

Work length5:55

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Vadim Gluzman (violin), Angela Yoffe (piano)

III. Scherzo in C Minor

Track length5:55

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One of Johannes Brahms’s sunniest works, the Violin Concerto in D major was conceived during the summer of 1878, which Brahms spent by the idyllic Wörthersee in Kärnten, Austria. By the end of the summer he was able to send the violin part of the first movement, and the beginning of the Finale to his friend Joseph Joachim. Brahms asked Joachim for advice regarding the writing for violin, and also told him that he was planning a work in four movements. By the time Joachim gave the first performance of the work, on New Year’s Day 1879, the two had discussed the work in depth, Brahms had replaced the two projected inner movements with the glowing Adagio, and Joachim had composed a first version of his own cadenza, which still is the one most often performed.

Vadim Gluzman, who on BIS has previously released Romantic war-horses such as the concertos by Tchaikovsky and Bruch to critical acclaim, now takes on Brahms with the support of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester under James Gaffigan. He combines it with the composer’s Violin Sonata No. 1, written more or less in tandem with the concerto, performing it with his wife and recital partner Angela Yoffe.

Reviews

September 2017

Gluzman [plays with] heartfelt eloquence and unbridled passion [in the Violin Concerto]…Gaffigan’s unfailingly attentive Lucerne players sound almost chamber-like in their textural detailing…in the G major Violin Sonata Gluzman and the velvet-toned Angela Yoffe fully justify expectations…[they] uncover a yearning freshness in its introspective musings.

July 2017

Spend just a few minutes in the company of Gluzman’s Brahms Concerto and, to call on an obvious cliché, you ‘know where he’s coming from’...Gluzman’s mellow tone, sensitively judged chords, unforced passagework, neat trills and athletic leaps hit their target each time.

28th June 2017

With imaginative programming, superb musicianship and BIS’s usual very fine recording standard this is very much a ‘what’s not to like’ release and easy to recommend. I especially appreciate the respectful balance between solo and other instruments which creates more of a concert-hall feel rather than a more artificial studio set-up.

July 2017

The finale is an ebullient partnership between violin and the always excellent orchestra. The recorded sound is rich and full.

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