Bartók - Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz 112
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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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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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Special offer. Bartók, Eötvös & Ligeti: Violin Concertos
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern
Peter Eötvös
Kopatchinskaja marries consummate technical brilliance and an amazing aural imagination wiuth a capacity to bring completely new interpretative perspectives to some very familiar music. This...may... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd September 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Recording of the Year
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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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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. 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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Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Rhapsodies for Violin & Orchestra
Barnabás Kelemen (violin)
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis
Not only does Kelemen possess all the necessary technical brilliance to master every aspect of of Bartok's fiendishly difficult writing but he also has an instinctive and idiomatic understanding... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, Orchestral Choice
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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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Bartók & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos
Augustin Hadelich (violin)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya
[Hadelich] manages to make this supposedly 'difficult' work sound as approachable and lyrical as any Romantic warhorse…his expressive range traverses a satisfying sonic rainbow as the work progresses;... — More…
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Warner Classics has reissued a complete set of Wilhelm Furtwängler’s studio recordings, reuniting for the first time Deutsche Grammophon, Polydor, HMV, Decca and Telefunken in one release. This... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Réédition
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Historical
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