Stravinsky: Violin Concerto, Scherzo a la russe, Apollon musagete & Orchestral Suites Nos. 1 & 2

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there’s perfect dialogue throughout this most concertante of works, every cue and change of colour picked up with perfect focus. It helps that the sound brings the woodwind as much up front as... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 5th Jan 2024
Catalogue No: CHSA5340
Label: Chandos
Length: 69 minutes

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Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, K. 053

Work length22:24

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James Ehnes, BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis

I. Toccata. Tempo crotchet = 96

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II. Aria I. Tempo crotchet = 116 - Più mosso - Più lento

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III. Aria II. Tempo quaver = 48 - Poco più mosso

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IV. Capriccio. Tempo quaver = 120 - Poco più tranquillo

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Stravinsky: Scherzo à la russe, K. 070

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BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis

Stravinsky: Suite No.1, K. 045

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BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis

I. Andante. Crotchet = 86 - 92

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II. Napolitana. Dotted crotchet = 144

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III. Española. Dotted crotchet = 54

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IV. Balalaïka. Crotchet = 144 - 132

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Stravinsky: Suite No.2, K. 038

Work length7:16

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BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis

I. Marche. Crotchet = 80

Track length1:19

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II. Valse. Dotted minim = 66 - [Trio I]

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III. Polka. Crotchet = 96

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IV. Galop. Crotchet = 126 - Trio

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Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, K. 048

Work length30:56

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BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis

I. Naissance d'Apollon

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II. Variation d'Apollon

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III. Pas d'Action

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IV. Variation de Calliope

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V. Variation de Polymnie

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VI. Variation de Terpsichore

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VII. Variation d'Apollon

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VIII. Pas de Deux

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IX. Coda (Apollon et les Muses)

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X. Apothéose

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One of the foremost musicians of his generation, James Ehnes continues to dazzle audiences around the world. Here he joins the BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis in a recording of Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto. Written for the Polish virtuoso Samuel Dushkin, the four-movement work takes the music of Bach as its inspiration, and is built around a chord of the notes D, E, and A, which Stravinsky described as his ‘passport to the concerto’ and with which the solo violin part opens each movement. Dushkin gave the première, conducted by Stravinsky, in Berlin in 1932. Apollon musagète, a ballet in two parts for string orchestra, was written in 1927 – 28, and demonstrates the composer’s complete rejection of the Russian folk music and idioms that had been so instrumental in his previous ballets (The Firebird, Petrushka). They are replaced by a concentration on ‘pure form’, which became known as his neo-classical style. The album is completed by his two orchestral suites – light-hearted music arranged from piano duets he had written in the 1910s – and Scherzo à la russe, a showpiece for the Paul Whiteman band that he composed in the early 1940s when newly arrived in California.

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March 2024

there’s perfect dialogue throughout this most concertante of works, every cue and change of colour picked up with perfect focus. It helps that the sound brings the woodwind as much up front as the violinist; there are wonderful contributions from the BBC Philharmonic, bassoons especially. But when Ehnes needs to take centre stage, in the second Aria he does so magisterially.

February 2024

Ehnes gives a performance of unobtrusive eloquence.

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