Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

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Release Date: 29th Jun 2015
Catalogue No: CHAN10864X
Label: Chandos
Series: Classics
Length: 69 minutes

Gramophone Awards

1990

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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 99

Work length38:29

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Lydia Mordkovitch
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

I. Nocturne. Moderato

Track length12:29

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II. Scherzo. Allegro

Track length6:29

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III. Passacaglia. Andante

Track length14:44

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IV. Burlesque. Allegro con brio

Track length4:47

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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 129

Work length30:52

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Lydia Mordkovitch
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

I. Moderato

Track length13:03

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II. Adagio

Track length9:36

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III. Adagio - Allegro

Track length8:13

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This album in our Lydia Mordkovitch Tribute features her famous 1989 recording of Shostakovich’s violin concertos with Neeme Järvi and the Scottish National Orchestra.

Lydia Mordkovitch was one of the founding artists of Chandos and over the years made more than sixty CDs. Her native Russia was strongly represented in her repertoire, as exemplified in her ‘mesmerising and intense’ performances of Shostakovich (The Telegraph’s obituary), heard to special effect in this album recorded at Glasgow City Hall. The original release – part of Neeme Järvi’s comprehensive Shostakovich series – won a Gramophone Award in 1990 and was highly praised by the magazine: ‘While her first is magisterial, the revelation is the under-rated Second, here shining as no other version.’

Completed in 1948, the First Concerto was written for the great Russian violinist David Oistrakh, Lydia Mordkovitch’s teacher. It was only premiered in 1955, after years of Stalinist censorship. This is a truly symphonic concerto and the musico-dramatic plan, on a grand scale, looks forward to that of the famous Symphony No. 10. The Second Concerto was completed and premiered in 1967 and also dedicated to David Oistrakh. More spare in texture and enigmatic in character, this late example of Shostakovich’s music could hardly present a sharper contrast to the First Concerto.

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