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Bartók - Violin Concerto No. 1, BB48a, Sz 36
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Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedChristian Tetzlaff (violin)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
This is altogether a fine performance [of the Second Concerto], with Christian Tetzlaff a touch more rhythmically alert and characterful than Renaud Capuçon on his recent recording of these... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Concerto
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Concerto
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Special offer. Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
Faust resists the kind of full-blown romantic ardour that might seem appropriate to music inspired by a protracted love affair. Instead she weaves her sinewy melodic line in a more introverted... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th July 2013
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Concerto Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Concerto
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Beethoven, Berg & Bartók: Violin Concertos
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding, Kirill Petrenko, Alan Gilbert
Where this set really comes into its own is with the 20th-century concertos, most especially the Berg, a work whose combination of Romantic cantabile, emotional thrust and tonally stretched... — More…
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Record Review, 2nd October 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Concerto
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Brahms & Bartók: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJanine Jansen (violin)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
The Bartok is a revelation.Somehow Jansen manages to coax this music out of its accustomed reticence, but without any sense of forcing it…at last, this concerto really does sing of unrequited... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th January 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Bartók: Violin Concertos & Viola Concerto
James Ehnes (violin / viola)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
Chandos could not have chosen a more ideal team for this project...Here they demonstrate an instinctive understanding for the different musical characteristics of each work...While encapsulating... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2011, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Enescu: Octet for strings
RecommendedVilde Frang (violin), Erik Schumann (violin), Gabriel Le Magadure (violin), Roseanne Philippens (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Lily Francis (viola), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Jan-Erik Gustavsson (cello)
Orchestre de Radio France, Mikko Franck
Frang rises to the works' passionate lyricism and dazzles in partnership with Mikko Franck and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, Concerto Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Concerto
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Special offer. Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedRenaud Capuçon (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, François-Xavier Roth
The early concerto’s lyrical opening movement finds Renaud Capuçon in his element, producing paying of great Warmth and intimacy…Capuçon negotiates Bartok’s very tricky writing with admirable... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd March 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Special offer. Bartok - The Concerto Album
RecommendedKyung-Wha Chung, Sviatoslav Richter, Martha Argerich, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Tabea Zimmermann
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Philharmonia Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Philadelphia...
The interpretation is passionate, but she finds time for a dreamy lyricism that never cloys - most of all, in Bartók's nocturnal variations in the poetic middle movement. — More…
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Building a Library, February 2008, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Concerto
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Special offer. Simon Rattle conducts Bartók
RecommendedPeter Donohoe (piano), Kyung-Wha Chung (violin), Sylvio Gualdo & Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion) & Katia & Marielle Labèque (pianos), Anne Sofie von Otter & Willard White
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Concerto
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Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski
She brings great warmth to the lyrical First Concerto...then in the more ambitious and challenging Second Concerto she introduces a thrilling touch of steel into her playing. The Orchestre de... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, Editor's Choice
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