Brillante

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The rich-toned Wawrowski meets the virtuoso challenges of Wieniawski with aplomb, but his Bruch sounds just a little too polished. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Nov 2017
Catalogue No: 9029580844
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 55 minutes

Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22

Work length23:36

Album only

Janusz Wawrowski (violin)
Stuttgarter Philharmoniker
Daniel Raiskin

I. Allegro moderato

Track length12:25

Album only

II. Romance. Andante, ma non troppo

Track length5:00

$1.30

$1.70

III. Allegro con fuoco - Allegro moderato (à la Zingara)

Track length6:11

$1.30

$1.70

Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46

Work length31:50

$5.20

$6.80

Janusz Wawrowski (violin)
Stuttgarter Philharmoniker
Daniel Raiskin

I. Einleitung. Grave - Adagio cantabile

Track length8:37

$1.30

$1.70

II. Allegro - Adagio

Track length6:41

$1.30

$1.70

III. Andante sostenuto

Track length6:49

$1.30

$1.70

IV. Finale. Allegro guerriero

Track length9:43

$1.30

$1.70

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Wawrowski’s first album Aurora was a commercial success and the second Sequenza is garnering positive reviews around the world - The Guardian called it ‘exhilarating’. Janusz Wawrowski continues to perform in Poland as well as internationally.

His third Warner Classics album, recorded with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, features Polish and German music – Henryk Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 and Max Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy. The repertoire choice symbolically reflects the dialogue between the Polish and German nations and their shared – frequently difficult – history.

The album title, Brillante, provokes associations with virtuosic performance skills since the programme contains two representative 19th-century examples of virtuoso works for violin and orchestra. Virtuosity, manifesting itself in different contexts of social life, was one of the trademarks of Romanticism, where it exerted a powerful impact on all musical forms and genres, giving birth to genuine stars that shone on the era’s musical firmament.

The album was recorded in cooperation with the Polish Institute Düsseldorf and with support from Polpharma sp. z o. o., to mark the centenary of Poland regaining its independence.

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February 2018

The rich-toned Wawrowski meets the virtuoso challenges of Wieniawski with aplomb, but his Bruch sounds just a little too polished.

February 2018

Wawrowski has a dark, luscious sweetness of sound, with warm vibrato in the gorgeous second-movement Romance…[he] offers a glowing account [of the Scottish Fantasy], Raiskin shaping the orchestral introduction affectionately. There is plenty of verve in the livelier movement, especially the strutting Allegro guerriero finale.

Brillante

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