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Marwood's tone is notably characteristically focused with a notable sweetness which is matched by Wallin...Boyd and his Scottish players set ideal tempi in outer movements, enabling Marwood to... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2012 More…

Release Date: 3rd Sep 2012
Catalogue No: CDA67847
Label: Hyperion
Series: The Romantic Violin Concerto
Length: 69 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

November 2012

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Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor Op. posth.

Work length32:12

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Anthony Marwood (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Douglas Boyd

I. In kräftigem, nicht zu schnellem Tempo

Track length15:21

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II. Langsam –

Track length5:57

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III. Lebhaft, doch nicht schnell

Track length10:54

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Schumann: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 (arranged from the Cello Concerto)

Work length21:43

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Anthony Marwood (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Douglas Boyd

I. Nicht zu schnell

Track length10:22

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II. Langsam –

Track length3:54

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III. Sehr lebhaft

Track length7:27

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Schumann: Fantasie in C major for Violin and Orchestra, Op.131

Work length15:29

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Anthony Marwood (violin)
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Douglas Boyd

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Hyperion is pleased to present a thirteenth volume of the Romantic Violin Concerto. Although frequently featuring virtuoso showpieces by the composer–violinists of the nineteenth century, this series also includes works of great musical interest which for one reason or another have not entered the repertoire. The performance history of all three pieces recorded here is indissolubly linked with the turmoil of Schumann’s last years.

Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D minor had to wait till 1937 for its premiere and has never become a standard work, but in the hands of Anthony Marwood it sounds remarkable. The Phantasie, by contrast, was lauded at its premiere and performed a number of times by Joachim. The Violin Concerto in A minor was arranged by Schumann from his Cello Concerto of the same opus number and is an important work in its own right.

Marwood’s great technique and thoughtful musicianship have made him increasingly an artist to notice, and he performs frequently in Australia and America as well as throughout Europe. Here he is accompanied by Hyperion’s ‘house band’, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Douglas Boyd.

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November 2012

Marwood's tone is notably characteristically focused with a notable sweetness which is matched by Wallin...Boyd and his Scottish players set ideal tempi in outer movements, enabling Marwood to negotiate fearlessly the fairly awkward and largely middle-range-lying solo writing...Utterly winning and authoritative.

December 2012

[Marwood's] tone is sweetly centred, and avoids excessive contrasts between the upper and lower strings, so equalisation is the name of the game. So, too, is a certain chamber-scaled approach, with give-and-take with the orchestral wind principals...Marwood and Douglas Boyd keep the music on the go and bring out its felicitous colour

29th August 2012

There's little Marwood can do to disguise the shortcomings of the solo writing [of the D minor concerto], or the repetitions of the finale, but he and the BBC Scottish Symphony under Douglas Boyd go at it with a great deal of enthusiasm, with the solo line very prominent in the sound picture.

6th September 2012

in a performance as strong and imaginative as this one by Anthony Marwood its impact is considerable. The sinew of the first movement, with its bold opening statement and toughness of inner workings, is contrasted with the mellow, reflective lyricism of the central slow one...There are firm Schumann fingerprints all over the score, and it fully merits the passionate advocacy that it receives here

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