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Sibelius - Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
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Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJohan Dalene (violin)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
Dalene has a strong command of long evolving lines – crucial in both composers – but he balances that with a fine feeling for ‘speaking’ phrasing and articulation...The expression can certainly... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st April 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Concerto
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Violin Concertos
RecommendedLisa Batiashvili (violin)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Batiashvili focuses on poetic intimacy in this deeply thoughtful performance. — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Record Review, 28th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Building a Library, November 2023, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Sibelius & Prokofiev: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJanine Jansen (violin)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä
So impressive. Janine Jansen essentially strips these pieces of all the years of what one might call ‘performance adornment’ and takes them back to their elemental roots. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th June 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Concertos
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Beethoven & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati
Such glorious playing cannot be recommended too strongly, but for me the Beethoven performance makes a greater contribution to the work’s discography. I won’t soon forget how deeply Tetzlaff... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2019, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 21st September 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Special offer. Sibelius: Violin Concerto
James Ehnes (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Sibelius’s ultra-virtuosic Violin Concerto demands stellar qualities from its soloist. James Ehnes has them all, and then some – vast technical firepower, full-on richness of tone without technicolor... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2024, Concerto Choice
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New. Sibelius & Barber: Violin Concertos
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Daniel Harding
Capuçon is plainly a seasoned romantic when it comes to the Sibelius Concerto and the warmth he exudes both in phrasing and sound in his delivery of the rapt opening theme belies the forbidding... — More…
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Schoenberg & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
RecommendedHilary Hahn (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
The Schoenberg is simply astonishing. Hahn and Esa-Pekka Salonen shows how much beauty and brilliance there is in this work. — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th May 2009
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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New. Karel Ančerl: Live Recordings from the Czech Radio Archive: Concertos
Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Henryk Szeryng (violin), Ida Haendel (violin), Wilhelm Kempff (piano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Emil Gilels (piano), Karel Ančerl
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Sibelius & Adès: Violin Concertos
Augustin Hadelich (violin)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
this is a disc which grows in stature on each hearing. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Concerto
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Special offer. Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Jennifer Pike (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
this enjoys one of the finest ever actual recordings...giving Jennifer Pike's violin a tremendous sense of presence. And she plays it with impressive mastery. She inclines to the bittersweet... — More…
