Corigliano: The Red Violin Concerto

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…there is so much stirring and seductive music… and Joshua Bell brings it all off with magnificent assurance and conviction. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Sep 2007
Catalogue No: 82876880602
Label: Sony
Length: 59 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

17th September 2007
BBC Music Magazine

October 2007

Orchestral Choice

Corigliano, J: Violin Concerto "The Red Violin"

Work length37:12

Album only

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Joshua Bell (violin)
Marin Alsop

I. Chaconne

Track length16:27

Album only

II. Pianissimo scherzo

Track length5:06

$1.30

$1.70

III. Andante flautando

Track length6:24

$1.30

$1.70

IV. Accelerando finale

Track length9:15

$1.30

$1.70

Corigliano, J: Violin Sonata

Work length22:44

$5.20

$6.80

Joshua Bell (violin), Jeremy Denk (piano)

I. Allegro

Track length2:38

$1.30

$1.70

II. Andantino

Track length7:02

$1.30

$1.70

III. Lento

Track length5:12

$1.30

$1.70

IV. Allegro

Track length7:52

$1.30

$1.70

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Recording of the Week, Joshua Bell

17th September 2007

Following his recent performance at the Last night of the Proms, the American violinist gives the world premiere recording of John Corigliano’s ‘Red Violin’ Concerto, composed for the 1998 film of the same name.

Composer, John Corigliano and violinist Joshua Bell - two of biggest names in classical music - teamed up to create one of 1999's best soundtracks, ‘The Red Violin’. The composer and violinist have joined up once again to create this album, a brand new concerto inspired by the aforementioned soundtrack

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October 2007

…there is so much stirring and seductive music… and Joshua Bell brings it all off with magnificent assurance and conviction.

2010

With his 70th birthday in 2009 and decorated with many awards, John Corigliano is one of the most prominent American composers of his generation. Thirty years ago his Clarinet Concerto made a strong initial impact and the RedViolin is his fifth concerto, with a new one for percussion to follow.
Corigliano's score for François Girard's film The Red Violin (1997) was the starting-point for the latest concerto. Even before the film was finished the composer extracted a Chaconne for violin and orchestra, which eventually became the first movement of the concerto. He felt that a single movement would get lost compared with a full-scale concerto.
And this is exactly what he has delivered – a romantic, dramatic, lyrical four-movement work with luxuriant orchestral textures that benefited from starting life as a film. In his essay in the booklet Corigliano says this context encouraged him to write with fewer inhibitions; things flowed easily, but he has cunningly adapted the work to the concert hall. Even further the RedViolin Concerto is a resourceful vehicle for the eloquence and panache of Joshua Bell, who gave the premiere in 2003. The opening movement now seems long but the ghostly Scherzo is concise and throughout there is a special rapt atmosphere in pianissimo passages.
Bell and Jeremy Denk give a polished performance of the 1963 Violin Sonata that fuses neoclassical and American styles. Ideal performances well recorded.

February 2008

Corigliano's score for François Girard's film The Red Violin (1997) was the starting-point for the latest concerto. …a romantic, dramatic, lyrical four-movement work with luxuriant orchestral textures that benefited from starting life as a film.

2011 edition

It is an unpredictable but fascinating work, and it could surely not be presented more excitingly than by Joshua Bell, with Marin Alsop and the excellent Baltimore orchestra. The recording is extremely vivid.

Corigliano: The Red Violin Concerto

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