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Walton: Violin Concerto, Partita & Hindemith Variations
Anthony Marwood (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2017
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Record Review, 1st July 2017, Recording of the Week
Anthony Marwood’s un-flashy individualism seems to be operating at an opposite pole to the Heifetz way, and generates memorable results of its own. While Marwood has all the virtuosity that...
Walton: Violin Concerto, Partita & Hindemith Variations
Anthony Marwood (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2017
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Record Review, 1st July 2017, Recording of the Week
Anthony Marwood’s un-flashy individualism seems to be operating at an opposite pole to the Heifetz way, and generates memorable results of its own. While Marwood has all the virtuosity that...
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Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra follow up their definitive account of the symphonies (on CDA67794) with another outstanding album of Walton. From the sunlit Mediterranean lyricism of the Violin Concerto to the rousing Spitfire Prelude and Fugue, this is the composer at the height of his power.
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week7th July 2017
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Record Review1st July 2017Recording of the Week
July 2017
Anthony Marwood’s un-flashy individualism seems to be operating at an opposite pole to the Heifetz way, and generates memorable results of its own. While Marwood has all the virtuosity that the music demands, nothing is rushed…[and] the design here hangs together quite naturally. He searches out remarkable colours, too…alert accompanying by the orchestra sets a benchmark for the musical riches that follow
July 2017
Proceedings are launched in fine style with a supremely affectionate and agreeably lithe account of the immensely personable concerto that Walton conceived for the great Jascha Heifetz. Anthony Marwood proves an enviably secure and articulate soloist...their consistently absorbing performance will unquestionably give lasting pleasure.
July 2017
Hyperion becomes not only my overall choice for the coupling but a very strong contender in all the individual works.
7th July 2017
Marwood gently entwines himself with the orchestral texture. He's never flashy for its own sake, and yet his virtuosity and absolute command come across at every moment. Both he and the orchestra respond wonderfully to the concerto's changing moods...A fascinating disc that's well worth investigating, especially if you're tempted to explore some of Walton's lesser-known works.
2nd July 2017
an engrossing sequence. Marwood is a thrilling, virtuosic soloist in the ever-seductive concerto, and the orchestra matches his power.
9th July 2017
Marwood is the incisive, poetic soloist in Walton’s Violin Concerto...Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra relish the showpiece Partita.
July 2017
Anthony Marwood has the technique to encompass the dazzling finger work designed with Heifetz in mind. An unqualified success.
classicalsource.com July 2017
Walton’s musical and scoring virtuosity is to the fore in this wide-ranging and substantial piece that is done handsome service to by the BBCSSO and Brabbins, whether intimately expressive, fleet and spectral (Walton often with a twinkle in the eye), or grandiose.
29th July 2017
[a highlight is] Anthony Marwood’s intelligent reading of the sultry Violin Concerto. The work usually leaves me cold, but this taut performance is a keeper, especially in the long closing movement where the reprise of music from the concerto's opening is devastatingly effective. The coda’s fireworks are sensational.