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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Brahms & Joachim - Hungarian Dances
Hagai Shaham (violin) & Arnon Erez (piano) The forty-year friendship between Brahms and Joseph Joachim, violinist and composer, was one of the most significant
and fruitful relationships in nineteenth-century music. Their admiration of each other’s artistry was profound and
unwavering, and bore sustained creative fruit on Brahms’s side of which his Violin Concerto and Double Concerto are
only the most famous examples.
Joachim’s transcriptions of Brahms’s famous Hungarian Dances—originally written for piano duet or solo piano—are
technically challenging for any violinist, and superbly idiomatic, constituting a kind of gypsy ‘Art of the Violin’. They
represent the summit of Brahms’s ‘Hungarian’ art, and Joachim’s powers of transcription match them with violin
writing of the greatest fastidiousness and authentic feeling. The brilliant Hagai Shaham, acclaimed for his recordings of
Hubay, is the ideal performer. “Joseph Joachim's violin arrangements of Brahms's Hungarian Dances more often than not appear singly as concert encores, so it is good to have the whole set presented here, and especially in virtuoso performances from the Israeli violinist Hagai Shaham that get to the heart of the style.
If in musical terms Joachim's own set of variations pales by comparison, this is hardly the fault of Shaham, nor of his expert duo partner Arnon Erez: the playing fizzes with energy and suavity.” The Telegraph, 24th May 2008 | 
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Hagai Shaham (violin) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins ‘You wonder why all three works are not in the repertoire of every violinist. But then not every violinist sounds like Shaham. He really is something
very special indeed … one of my discs of the year’ (Classic FM Magazine) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Hagai Shaham (violin) & Arnon Erez (piano) ‘Mix Bartok, Debussy and a dash of Lisztian bravado and you’ll get something very close to Bloch’s folksong-inflected, post-Romantic sound-world.
Intoxicating performances guaranteed to set the pulse racing’ (BBC Music Magazine) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Romantic Violin Concerto 3 - Hubay
Hagai Shaham (violin) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins ‘If, like me, you’re a sucker for lashings of blistering virtuosity, strong, well-contrasted melodic content, and a substantial orchestral contribution, I promise that you will not be disappointed’ (BBC Music Magazine) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Hagai Shaham (violin) & Arnon Erez (piano) ‘Hagai Shaham possesses the ideal kind of silver-toned, narrow-vibratoed purity to make these occasionally melodramatic pieces ring true. Rather than fall back on a well-upholstered, opulent sound, he streamlines his tone, adding a special kind of intensity to Bloch’s soaring climaxes. Shaham strikes just the right balance between interpretative cool and swashbuckling bravado in Baal Shem … the recording is excellent throughout’ (The Strad)  BBC Music Magazine
Chamber Choice - March 2007 |
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Hagai Shaham (violin) & Arnon Erez (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Hagai Shaham (violin) Lucnica Chorus, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atlas Camerata Orchestra, Dalia Atlas “Both works are impressively conducted by Dalia Atlas. Hagai Shaham is the infinitely expressive soloist in the Suite.” The Guardian | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Hagai Shaham (violin) & Arnon Erez (piano) ‘… attractive music played with the sort of heart-tugging abandon that many of us only know from old 78s’ (Gramophone) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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London Mozart Players, Howard Shelley (piano & direction) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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