Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Souvenir de Florence

You can tell so much about the performance to come from the violin’s first entry: Christian’s is free, reflective and rich-toned on the right notes. The runs flow beautifully, the dialogues with... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 25th Jun 2021
Catalogue No: 0301731BC
Label: Berlin Classics
Length: 70 minutes

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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

Work length36:45

$9.00

$11.60

Sarah Christian
Bremen Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
Jérémie Rhorer

I. Allegro moderato

Track length19:04

$4.00

$5.15

II. Canzonetta. Andante

Track length7:01

$2.00

$2.60

III. Finale. Allegro vivacissimo

Track length10:40

$3.00

$3.85

Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70

Work length34:01

$8.00

$10.35

Sarah Christian, Johannes Strake, Wen Xiao Zheng, Jano Lisboa, Jan-Eric Gustafsson, Maximilian Hornung

I. Allegro con spirito

Track length10:42

$3.00

$3.85

II. Adagio cantabile e con moto

Track length9:54

$2.00

$2.60

III. Allegretto moderato

Track length6:22

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegro vivace

Track length7:03

$2.00

$2.60

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On her debut album for Berlin Classics, Sarah Christian performs no less a work than Tchaikovsky’s warhorse, his Violin Concerto, ably supported by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Jéremie Rhorer. For full measure, she plays Tchaikovsky’s Sextet Souvenir de Florence. This is repertoire radiant with positive energy and feelings of happiness, which are not always to be found in Tchaikovsky’s music. Sarah Christian is able to do more here than show off her brilliant technical skills; her love of chamber music can be clearly heard and clearly felt.

Music that revives you is an urgent necessity at times such as these. Many people have been hit hard by the Corona pandemic, music-makers perhaps hardest of all. Tchaikovsky composed both his Violin Concerto and his “Recollection of Florence” when he was at a spa, recovering from depression and nervous breakdown. Vigorous and virtuosic, but also tuneful and romantic, each work reflects this sense of recovery, the surge of new energy in convalescence. Sarah Christian set great store by recording these two works in the difficult year of 2020. She was concerned that “despite all the checks and challenges that we musicians – and others too – have faced and are still facing, it should still be possible to give back something tangible, audible, something positive.”

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October 2021

You can tell so much about the performance to come from the violin’s first entry: Christian’s is free, reflective and rich-toned on the right notes. The runs flow beautifully, the dialogues with distinguished woodwind colleagues in slow movement and finale (listen to Rie Kodama characterise a tiny bassoon phrase) brimming with personality.

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