Bruch / Vaughan Williams / Barber Works For Violin

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For Welde, this is an auspicious debut disc…while she lacks nothing in excitement when the notes start flying, she produces a velvety sonority at low dynamic levels that constantly beguiles the... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Nov 2021
Catalogue No: LWC1222
Label: LAWO
Length: 61 minutes

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Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26

Work length24:20

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Sonoko Miriam Welde
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Tabita Berglund

I. Prelude. Allegro moderato

Track length8:01

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II. Adagio

Track length8:56

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III. Finale

Track length7:23

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Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Work length14:27

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Sonoko Miriam Welde
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Tabita Berglund

Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14

Work length22:59

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Sonoko Miriam Welde
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Joshua Weilerstein

I. Allegro

Track length10:36

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II. Andante

Track length8:26

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III. Presto in moto perpetuo

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Violinist Sonoko Miriam Welde says of this recording: "When you ask people which superpower they would choose if they could have only one, many answer that they would want the power of flight. Although I personally would prefer invisibility, I also think there is something enviable about the freedom of being able to fly, to soar through the sky, above all the stress and troubles of life down on the ground.

A lot has been said and written about how Vaughan Williams wrote "The Lark Ascending" during the 1st World War "when a pastoral scene of a singing bird on the wing seemed far removed from reality" (Betsy Schwarm, Britannica). I sometimes imagine people living through difficult times looking up at the lark, envying its life and freedom that they wish they had. It's a moving piece with soaring melodies and the lark's "silver chain of sound" (George Meredith's poem "The Lark Ascending").

Soaring melodies are present in Barber's Concerto as well. Although it opens with a generous and warm melody, it doesn't take long for uncertainty to creep in. The 2nd movement is, for me, one of the most touching and heartbreaking pieces of music. It is just endlessly beautiful....

The first two movements of the concerto are emotionally and dramatically linked in that they both have short solo violin cadenzas towards the end. The two are very similar to each other very tense and devastating, like an existential cry. They are followed by a bizarre, disturbing, entertaining and adrenaline-inducing 3rd movement to end the piece. In a way it makes no sense to end this way, but that's part of the fun of it.

Bruch's Violin Concerto is a piece with its heart on its sleeve. The 1st movement is a very serious and dramatic introduction, the 2nd incredibly touching and sincere, and the 3rd so joyous and life affirming.

This piece has accompanied me in many important and special moments in my life so far and I am so happy that it is with me in this one as well my debut album with the Oslo Philharmonic, a fantastic group of musicians that I have loved and admired for many years!"

Sonoko Miriam Welde

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February 2022

For Welde, this is an auspicious debut disc…while she lacks nothing in excitement when the notes start flying, she produces a velvety sonority at low dynamic levels that constantly beguiles the senses…it is Welde’s ravishing performance of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending that is the stand-out performance.

January 2022

you instantly notice the silvery, slender, mellifluous, lyrical freedom of her sound…There’s also a great sense of partnership with the orchestra, whose own pleasures include the constant stream of beautifully voiced wind solos and the lively balance struck in all three works between metrical fluidity and precision.

Bruch / Vaughan Williams / Barber Works For Violin

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