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| Bach - Violin Concertos
Julia Fischer (violin) Academy of St Martin in the Fields "Across the world thrusting young violinists are two a penny, but there is only Julia Fischer." Geoff Brown, The Times Julia is one of the fastest rising music stars in the world today. Her first Decca release features some of the most commercial violin repertoire of Bach concertos and will set a new benchmark for Bach recordings. 25-year-old Julia Fischer is already being hailed as one of the truly great violinists of the twenty-first century acclaimed as "Artist of the Year" in the prestigious Classic FM Gramophone Awards 2007 and voted "Best Newcomer" by BBC Music Magazine in 2006. At the age of eleven, Julia Fischer not only carried off the top prize at the 1995 International Yehudi Menuhin Competition (overseen by Lord Menuhin himself) but was awarded a special prize for "Best Bach Solo Work". Her 2006 BBC Music Magazine "Best Newcomer" Award was also given in response to her Bach playing - specifically her complete recording of the solo Sonatas & Partitas, of which the jury said: "There are many recordings of Bach’s works for solo violin but rarely do they reach such breathtaking heights of musicianship as this one. “…her playing is beautifully honed, technically without flaw.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2009 “I think there is a place for performances as beautifully conceived and played as these, even if the sound is romanticised and approached from the perspective of later music. Fischer’s pristine tone and sizzling technique are well partnered by Alexander Sitkovetsky in the Double Violin Concerto and by Andrey Rubtsov in a reconstructed work for violin, oboe and strings. Fischer is for those who like their Bach seamless and consoling, rather than challenging.” Sunday Times, 8th February 2009 **** “Fischer strikes my ears as being an intuitive Bachian. Her phrasing is elegant and she has an unerring feeling for Bach's broad architectural melodic contours. These are lyrical performances, gently articulated, and wonderfully free from celebrity-style ego.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2009 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Anne-Sophie Mutter - In Tempus Praesens
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin and conductor) Trondheim Soloists Anne-Sophie Mutter’s first Bach recording for DG couples his Concertos BWV 1041 and BWV 1042 with the world-premiere recording of the Concerto commissioned by her from Sofia Gubaidulina, the Russian composer who regards Bach as her greatest source of inspiration Mutter gave the premiere performance of Gubaidulina’s Concerto at the 2007 Lucerne Festival and will record the work with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev at the beginning of 2008 For the Bach Concertos Mutter reunites with the Trondheim Soloists, with whom she recorded the Vivaldi Four Seasons album that has sold more than 350,000 copies. The combination of Bach and Gubaidulina will appeal to lovers of Bach and instrumental music in general as well as to listeners interested in discovering something new. It also offers a unique marketing angle for the specialist music press as a follow-up Mutter’s 2006 Mozart project “Gubaidulina has her own very personal musical identity, and the concerto's strategies for playing off heights against depths, lament against affirmation, are very powerfully realised. This darkly inviting music is splendidly performed. You'd expect the Mutter/Gergiev combination to be combustible, and there is certainly no reticence or half-measures in the way the music's expressive core, its play with visions of hell and heaven, is exposed.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 “In tempus praesens is certainly one of Gubaidulina's most striking and impressive works of recent years. Mutter's performance of this stunning piece, undoubtedly one of the finest violin concertos to emerge in the past 30 years, is absolutely mesmerising. Her Bach, too, is charismatic.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2008 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Jascha Heifetz plays Bach & Mozart Violin Concertos
Bach, J S: | Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV1041 Recorded 6th December, 1953 in Republic Pictures Studios, Hollywood Los Angeles Philharmonic, Alfred Wallenstein Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV1042 Recorded 6th December, 1953 in Republic Pictures Studios, Hollywood Los Angeles Philharmonic, Alfred Wallenstein Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV1043 Recorded 14th and 19th October, 1946 in Hollywood Jascha Heifetz (both solo parts) RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra, Franz Waxman | Mozart: | Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K219 "Turkish" Recorded 29th-30th May, 1951 in EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London (Cadenzas: Joseph Joachim) London Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent |
One of the great 20th century violinists, at his best Heifetz played the concerto and sonata repertoire with a strong command of structure, minute attention to detail and an unequalled sensuous beauty of tone. Although Heifetz regarded the music of Mozart and Bach as integral to his repertoire, his style was grounded in a Romantic sensibility that sometimes courted controversy. Of the Mozart Concertos, Heifetz favoured the D major, K218 (recorded on Naxos 8.110941) and the A major, K219, which is heard on this re-issue in the second of three he made. Heifetz recorded the two Bach solo concertos only once. On these and his first recording of the Double Concerto, Heifetz’s playing (of both parts) is typically elegant and emotionally charged. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Yehudi Menuhin Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, George Enescu These recordings were made in Paris in 1932–36 “A distinguished series of beautifully presented reissues.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Monica Huggett (violin) Sonnerie “Huggett's violin playing is characteristically light of tread and tasteful in matters of embellishment; and her small ensemble of supporting players is sympathetic and crisply responsive to her leadership.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2006 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Nigel Kennedy Plays Bach
Nigel Kennedy (violin) Irish Chamber Orchestra “As a soloist, he phrases with dash and poetry, his interpretations brimming with uncommon character.” Billboard magazine (US) | | | EMI - 3323419 (DVD Video) Normally: $19.99 Special: $12.99 |
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Jonathan Rees Scottish Ensemble | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Jaime Laredo (violin) Scottish Chamber Orchestra | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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David Oistrakh (violin) Wiener Symphoniker, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden,
Eugene Goossens, Franz Konwitschny | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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