Britten: Violin Concerto Op. 15

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Sohn's playing...is shot through with angst and urgency - but her conductor, Luigi Piovano, sometimes lets the tension sag. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2013 More…

Release Date: 8th Apr 2013
Catalogue No: EL1340
Label: Eloquentia
Length: 56 minutes

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Britten: Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 15

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Livia Sohn, Luigi Piovano, Orchestra del Teatro Marrucino di Chieti

I. Moderato con moto

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II. Vivace

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III. Passacaglia, Andante lento

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Berger, Jonathan: Violin Concerto, "Jiyeh"

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Livia Sohn, Henk Guittart, Banff Centre Chamber Orchestra

I. Aggrassivo e angolare

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II. Adagio cantabile

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III. Decisivo, con forza

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Benjamin Britten, whose centenary we celebrate this year, channeled his rejection of war and hatred of fascism in his Violin Concerto, The work, a landmark of the repertoire, is unbridled in its lyricism and constitutes a poignant commentary on the devastating violence of his time.

Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, with same concerns as Britten, composer Jonathan Berger has also turned to a violin concerto. 'Jiyeh', a town on the Lebanese coast, 27 km south of Beirut and 10km north of Sidon, is built on the ancient city of Porphyreon, where a whale was purported to have returned Jonah to the shore. It is also the site of a major oil spill in 2006 caused by rocket fire on the third day of the military conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Jonathan Berger became obsessed by patterns on satellite pictures of the spill which in turn inspired his violin concerto written for, and premiered by, Livia Sohn in 2007.

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August 2013

Sohn's playing...is shot through with angst and urgency - but her conductor, Luigi Piovano, sometimes lets the tension sag.

September 2013

[The Berger] is certainly a powerful and dramatic work… pinpoint harmonies at the end of the movement. The scherzo is brilliantly done and the finale is most convincing, the long, plaintive coda particularly successful.

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