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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Mozart & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos
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| |  | Váša Príhoda plays Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 & Bach Concerto for two violins
The Czech violinist Váša Príhoda has been somewhat forgotten. He was famous for the warmth of his tone and brilliant technique. These studio recordings were made in Torino in 1957. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart, Brahms & Beethoven
“Stern’s well known strengths in Brahms, as evidenced in his studio recordings, are reprised here. He plays with a communicative classicism that embraces romanticised rubati - which elongates but never breaks the line - and which vests the music sometimes with a heartbreaking sense of pathos...The orchestra remains rather bluff...But never mind, it’s Stern’s show and Wöss accompanies admirably.” MusicWeb International, August 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Brahms & Mozart: Violin Concertos
Two great milestones in the discography of Frank Peter Zimmermann, one of the finest of German violin virtuosi. Graceful elegance marks his Mozart interpretations, while his Brahms is all virtuoso fire and dreamy, Romantic rapture. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart: The 5 Violin Concertos
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| |  | Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5
Frank Peter Zimmermann is one of the greatest violinists of our time. The Süddeutsche Zeitung has described him as "a magician". Perfectionist that he is, the "musical magician with depth" does singular justice to Mozart's violin concertos with his delicate tone and the subtlety of his approach. Zimmermann brings out in these early Electrola recordings the fine nuances between humour and sensuousness in the Mozart violin concertos. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 5
Experiencing the Australian Chamber Orchestra and their leader Richard Tognetti in concert has been described in The Times as 'like taking a swig of a vitamin drink'. This is the first of two discs on BIS of Mozart's violin concertos. Contributing to this is the fact that the strings (both soloist and orchestra) play on gut strings, while the wind players perform on replicas of instruments from Mozart's time. Tognetti has been the leader and artistic director of the ACO for more than 20 years. “Just a few bars of the neatly sprung opening tutti of Mozart's G major violin concerto K216 are enough to confirm...the tremendous energy and sense of musical purpose that are so characteristic of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and their leader Richard Tognetti...These are modern-instrument performances of great personality and emotional generosity.” The Guardian, 18th November 2010 **** “It’s not easy being graceful one minute, punchy the next, but the Australian Chamber Orchestra, equipped with gut strings and other period habits, manages with ease on this gripping disc. The cake’s icing is Tognetti...Phrasing and speed control are fresh and thoughtful, cadenzas weighty, textures unfailingly clear. Delightful music-making.” The Times, 27th November 2010 **** “Tognetti is in total control both as leader and soloist in beautifully nuanced performances of the third and fifth violin concertos...Tuning to a warmer A=430 (rather than standard 440) and using gut strings, they produce a gloriously exciting, tangy edged, alert and playful sound.” The Observer, 26th December 2010 “These are bright, lively performances, on modern instruments but well aware of 18th-century style. The finales of all three works are especially successful..Tognetti and Moore are wonderfully well-matched, and when they play together in parallel their tones make a perfect blend.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 “This is a wonderfully refreshing Mozart disc...Tognetti's phrasing is stylish, imaginative but never eccentric, and the orchestral accompaniment is played with an alertness and care over rhythms that produce results that are notably tidy as well as scrupulously shaped....Tognetti's ornamentation and embellishment feel just right too.” International Record Review, December 2010 “When Mozart presents a statement on one instrument and repeats it on the other, their phrasing is perfectly matched; similarly, when they play together, they blend effortlessly. It's like listening to chamber music.” Classic FM Magazine, April 2011 *** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart - Violin Concertos Nos. 3-5
Thomas Albertus Irnberger (violin) Spirit of Europe, Martin Sieghart | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart - Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
“Mozart's violin concertos are harder to play than they sound; the challenge lies in making them sound effortless without rendering them facile. Capuçon, with his sweet-toned but deceptively powerful playing negotiated this balance successfully. His playing was brilliant in the bravura passages without sounding like showmanship, while the slow movements, particularly of the G major Third Concerto, were spun out with unerring lyricism.” The Guardian The violinist Renaud Capuçon has a substantial catalogue on Virgin Classics, but this is only the second CD to focus on him in solo concertos – the first, the Mendelssohn and Schumann concertos was released in 2004. That being said, he has recorded L’arbre des songes, a de facto concerto, for a disc of works by the contemporary composer Dutilleux, and has also collaborated with Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto for EMI Classics, and, back on Virgin Classics, with his brother, Gautier in Brahms’ Double Concerto. This new release sees him in two of Mozart’s solo concertos and the Sinfonia concertante with viola-player Antoine Tamestit, another outstanding French instrumentalist of the younger generation. (Interestingly, Renaud has on occasion performed the Sinfonia concertante with his brother in an arrangement for violin and cello.) Another Frenchman conducts the programme, Louis Langrée, who has been Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York since 2002. “Working with Louis Langrée is a particular privilege,” says Renaud. “His Mozart has honesty, purity and joie de vivre ... grace, in fact. He makes a marvellous guide for me, since I am less familiar than he is with Mozart. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra guides me too ... The players’ finesse of articulation and their colours are drawn from chamber music ... This simplicity of approach is essential for me.” “The First Concerto's opening tutti sets the overall tone of this disc with bright and light phrasing. Renaud Capuçon's… vibrato is tight, never becoming sickly, and he spins an elegantly effortless line in the slow movement, with a wide variety of tone colour.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2009 *** “His performance here is lithe, graceful and refined, capturing vivacious humour with luminous upper-stringed sparkle, and colouring the slower movements with warm, musical poetry...There is real artistic synergy here: each matches the others gentle poise and warmth, with the velvety depth of the viola setting off the sweet descant of the violin.” Charlotte Gardner, bbc.co.uk, 21st May 2009 “These musicians have all the hallmarks of excellence and it's impossible not to be drawn to their empathy with the rhythmic vivacity and finer sensibilities of the music.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2009 “Capuçon is partnered by the viola player Antoine Tamestit, who perfectly complements his unfailingly musical phrasing without ever slavishly copying it. A fine achievement.” The Guardian, 17th April 2009 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart - Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5
Six years of recording silence comes to an end! Frans Brüggen and the Orchestra of the 18th-Century make their return in style on Glossa, a collaboration that produced all the orchestra's output between 1997 and 2002. Five new titles are planned over the next 18 months.These new live recordings originate from tours of Brazil and the Netherlands, with Thomas Zehetmair on top form and offering a lesson in boundless musicality. Playing a 1730 Stradivarius with a classical-period bow, Mozart's music sounds fresher than ever, supported by a period band that has lost nothing of its energy since its foundation back in 1981.As a distinctive extra to the complete set of violin concertos, Zehetmair and Ruth Killius engage in a superb version of the Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola. New sumptuous design and packaging for this latest installment of Glossa's Grand Tour series. “Thomas Zehetmair is altogether more gracious and urbane in performances recorded over a five-year period… His tone is sweet and subtly varied, his phrasing always alive, with those tiny nuances more naturally achieved with the shorter, lighter Classical bow. I enjoyed the darkly majestic Sinfonia concertante... both for the characteristically vivid orchestral contribution and the sensitive interplay between violinist and the attractive, husky-toned viola of Ruth Killus.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2009 “Zehetmair makes an extraordinary sound, small and light and yet able to hold your attention at every moment.” The Telegraph, 21 February 2009 | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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