Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 8

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There have been a number of fine accounts of Paganini's First Concerto down the years… Hilary Hahn plays the score complete and with such effortless command that the listener might be fooled... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 13th Nov 2006
Catalogue No: E4776232
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 57 minutes

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Niccolò Paganini, Emile Sauret, Salvatore Accardo: Violin Concerto No.1 in D, Op.6

Work length37:44

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Hilary Hahn (violin), Emile Sauret (cadenzor), Salvatore Accardo (cadenzor)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Eije Oue
Recorded: 2005-10-08
Recording Venue: Berwaldhallen, Stockholm

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length21:38

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$1.15

II. Adagio

Track length5:40

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III. Rondo (Allegro spirituoso)

Track length10:26

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Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 8 in A minor, Op. 47 'in modo di scena cantante'

Work length19:53

$2.55

$3.45

Hilary Hahn (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Eije Oue
Recorded: 2006-02-25
Recording Venue: Berwaldhallen, Stockholm

I. Recitative - Allegro molto

Track length4:05

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2. Adagio - Andante

Track length7:44

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III. Allegro moderato

Track length8:04

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November 2006

There have been a number of fine accounts of Paganini's First Concerto down the years… Hilary Hahn plays the score complete and with such effortless command that the listener might be fooled into thinking that it really isn’t all that difficult… in Spohr's A minor Concerto... her exquisite shaping of Spohr's melodies and technical nonchalance pay special dividends. ...this is easily the finest version of this once-popular work to have emerged since Zukerman's long-deleted account of the early 1970s...

2010

After nearly 200 years Paganini still poses considerable challenges but Hilary Hahn's superior technique surmounts them easily, the highest and fastest passages accomplished with clarity, excellent intonation and no compromise on tonal quality. The notorious double-harmonics episode in the finale sounds are wonderully secure and beautiful.
And Hahn's musicianship is of a high order; we hear the Concerto not as the patchwork of showy tricks and memorable tunes it often seems, but as a well crafted, unified work. Other violinists may have produced performances with more edge-ofthe- seat excitement but few have excelled Hahn for finesse. Rather than striving to present the soloist as a heroic figure, she's content, with sympathetic orchestral support, to let us hear the concerto as a beautiful, enthralling piece.
In the Spohr, Hahn plays the recitative sections with splendid, bold expressiveness, and in the brilliant final movement shows a winning combination of strength, delicacy and lyricism.
Her very slow speed in the first aria, though, doesn't work: the music appears to stand still, with a complete change of mood for the contrasting episode. It's an outstanding disc, however, and can only enhance Hahn's reputation.

Awards Issue 2008

We hear the [Paganini] Concerto not as the patchwork of showy tricks and memorable tunes it often seems, but as a well crafted, unified work.

November 2006

After nearly 200 years Paganini still poses considerable challenges but Hilary Hahn's superior technique surmounts them easily… And Hahn's musicianship is of a high order; we hear the Concerto not as the patchwork of showy tricks and memorable tunes it often seems, but as a well crafted, unified work. In the Spohr, Hahn plays the recitative sections with splendid, bold expressiveness, and in the brilliant final movement shows a winning combination of strength, delicacy and lyricism. But I'd take issue with her very slow speed in the first aria. It's an outstanding disc, however, and can only enhance Hahn's reputation.

Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 8

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