Russian Violin Concertos

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As Julia Fischer explains in the booklet-notes to this, her first CD, she has an abiding love of the Khachaturian Concerto, a work she found impossible to sell to concert-promoters. The freshness... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 17th Sep 2004
Catalogue No: PTC5186059
Label: Pentatone
Length: 79 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

January 2005

Editor's Choice

Khachaturian: Violin Concerto in D minor

Work length36:43

$8.00

$10.30

$14.00

Julia Fischer
Russian National Orchestra
Yakov Kreizberg

I. Allegro con fermezza

Track length14:56

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

II. Andante sostenuto

Track length12:31

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

III. Allegro vivace

Track length9:16

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19

Work length22:00

$6.00

$7.75

$10.50

Julia Fischer
Russian National Orchestra
Yakov Kreizberg

I. Andantino - Andante assai

Track length10:08

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

II. Scherzo. Vivacissimo

Track length3:39

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Moderato - Allegro moderato - Più tranquillo

Track length8:13

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82

Work length20:28

$5.00

$6.45

$8.75

Julia Fischer
Russian National Orchestra
Yakov Kreizberg

I. Moderato

Track length4:19

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

II. Andante

Track length10:29

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

III. Allegro

Track length5:40

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

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2010

As Julia Fischer explains in the booklet-notes to this, her first CD, she has an abiding love of the Khachaturian Concerto, a work she found impossible to sell to concert-promoters. The freshness of her way with the Khachaturian is immediately striking in the chattering figuration of the opening, and she brings a rare tenderness to the lyrical second subject. The orchestral sound is impressive, too. Though Itzhak Perlman and Lydia Mordkovitch produce a beefier sound, the refinement of Fischer's performance makes it equally compelling. This concerto has claims to be the composer's finest work, claims which the yearning tenderness of the slow movement support.
The clarity of Fischer's performance in the finale brings lightness and sparkle.
In the Glazunov, too, it's the clarity and subtlety of Fischer's playing that marks out her reading. She finds the tenderness of the slow middle section of this one-movement work, and gives an easy swing to the bouncy rhythms of the final section. In the Prokofiev she takes a meditative view of the wistful melodies, the element, she says, that most attracts her, even if she does not quite reach the depths of Kyung-Wha Chung's version.
A unique coupling, superbly recorded, that could hardly be more recommendable.

2011 edition

...could hardly be more recommendable, with warmly compelling performances from the brilliant young German virtuoso, superbly recorded in full, bright, clear sound...The clarity and freshness of her performance are what immediately strike home

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