Bruch: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 3

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Release Date: 29th Jun 2015
Catalogue No: CHAN10865X
Label: Chandos
Series: Classics
Length: 70 minutes

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Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 44

Work length29:17

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Lydia Mordkovitch (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox
Recorded: 4-7 October 1998
Recording Venue: Blackheath Concert Halls, London

I. Adagio ma non troppo

Track length15:02

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II. Recitative: Allegro moderato

Track length4:32

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III. Finale: Allegro molto

Track length9:43

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Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 58

Work length41:13

Album only

Lydia Mordkovitch (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox
Recorded: 4-7 October 1998
Recording Venue: Blackheath Concert Halls, London

I. Allegro energico

Track length20:27

Album only

II. Adagio

Track length11:49

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III. Finale: Allegro molto

Track length8:57

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As part of our July Tribute to Lydia Mordkovitch, this re-issue features Bruch’s Violin Concertos Nos 2 and 3 performed by Lydia Mordkovitch with Richard Hickox and the London Symphony Orchestra. Both were recorded in 1998 in Blackheath Halls in London.

Although his early fame rested on his choral music, Bruch also loved the violin which, in his opinion, ‘can sing a melody, and melody is the soul of music’. For his nine concerted works for the instrument he always took advice from such virtuosi as Joachim, Sarasate, and Willy Hess. In Violin Concerto No. 2, ‘Hickox draws radiant sounds from the LSO; Lydia Mordkovitch [...] plays with rapt dedication at speed, producing pianissimos of breathtaking beauty’, according to The Guardian. The piece is unusual in having a slow first movement, which is broad and powerful in its orchestration and contains brilliant passagework for the soloist. It is followed by another unusual feature, a middle movement in the style of a recitative, leading directly into a substantial and rhythmic Finale.

Unlike its two predecessors, Violin Concerto No. 3 is written in the classical mould. Its robust opening concertante movement is broad and heroic rather than lyrical. It precedes a slow movement reminiscent of that of the famous First Concerto, and a Finale in a conventional rondo form, dominated by a strongly rhythmic perpetuum mobile.

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