British Violin Concertos

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Release Date: 29th Jun 2015
Catalogue No: CHAN241-53
Label: Chandos
Series: 241
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

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Bax: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, GP 342

Work length35:20

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Bryden Thomson, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lydia Mordkovitch
Recorded: 23-25 June 1991
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, Central Square, London, England, United Kingdom

I. Overture, Ballade and Scherzo. Allegro risoluto

Track length14:46

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II. Adagio

Track length11:41

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III. Allegro - Slow valse tempo - Andante con moto

Track length8:53

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Dyson: Violin Concerto

Work length43:14

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Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Lydia Mordkovitch

I. Molto moderato

Track length20:17

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II. Vivace

Track length5:09

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III. Poco andante

Track length10:41

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IV. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length7:07

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Bliss: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

Work length41:54

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Richard Hickox, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Lydia Mordkovitch
Recorded: 17-18 January 2006
Recording Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, United Kingdom

I. Allegro ma non troppo - Più animato

Track length15:44

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II. Vivo - Tranquillo

Track length8:52

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III. Introduzione. Andante sostenuto - Allegro deciso in modo zingaro

Track length17:18

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Veale: Violin Concerto

Work length35:38

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Richard Hickox, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lydia Mordkovitch
Recorded: 29-30 November 2000
Recording Venue: Blackheath Halls, London, UK

I. Moderato - Allegro

Track length15:56

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II. Lament. Largo

Track length11:47

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III. Vivace - Andantino

Track length7:55

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This two-disc set offers four great British violin concertos which Lydia Mordkovitch recorded between 1995 and 2006 with Bryden Thomson, Richard Hickox, and four of the finest British orchestras.

After her British debut in 1979, Lydia Mordkovitch became one of the first artists to record for Chandos, founded in the same year. She lived in the UK for nearly thirty-five years and many of her sixty recordings were devoted to British repertoire, which she embraced and championed as a ‘charismatic performer and a faithful interpreter of a composer’s wishes’, as highlighted in The Guardian’s obituary.

From her ‘fiery, almost gipsy interpretation’ (The Times) of Bliss’s romantic concerto and ‘her real flair and richness of tone’ (Gramophone) in Bax’s very tuneful one, to Dyson’s more modern take on the genre, a ‘rarity to treasure’ (The Penguin Guide), Chandos here remembers the finest homage that Lydia Mordkovitch paid to her adopted Britain.

She also championed lesser-known concertos, such as the much later ‘phenomenal Violin Concerto [1986] by the almost-but-not-yet-forgotten John Veale’ (Fanfare), which completes this set.

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