Vadim Gluzman plays Barber, Bernstein & Bloch

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Gluzman is at his very finest in the Bloch, soaring aloft with a heart-warming intensity that captures the music's melodic plangency to perfection. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Feb 2010
Catalogue No: BISSACD1662
Label: BIS
Length: 70 minutes

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Bernstein: Serenade (after Plato's 'Symposium')

Work length30:56

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Vadim Gluzman
Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo
John Neschling
Recorded: July 2007
Recording Venue: Sala Sao Paulo, Brazil

I. Phaedrus - Pausanias: Lento - Allegro

Track length6:39

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II. Aristophanes: Allegretto

Track length4:40

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III. Erixymachos: Presto

Track length1:27

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IV. Agathon: Adagio

Track length7:09

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V. Socrates - Alcibiades: Molto tenuto - Allegro molto vivace

Track length11:01

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Bloch, E: Baal Shem

Work length15:16

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Vadim Gluzman
Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo
John Neschling
Recorded: July 2007
Recording Venue: Sala Sao Paulo, Brazil

No. 1, Vidui (Contrition) [Version for violin and orchestra]

Track length3:21

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No. 2, Nigun (Improvisation) [Version for violin and orchestra]

Track length6:57

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No. 3, Simchat torah (Rejoicing) [Version for violin and orchestra]

Track length4:58

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Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14

Work length24:14

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Vadim Gluzman
Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo
John Neschling
Recorded: July 2007
Recording Venue: Sala Sao Paulo, Brazil

I. Allegro

Track length10:51

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II. Andante

Track length8:59

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III. Presto in moto perpetuo

Track length4:24

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The three works for violin and orchestra gathered here testify both to the versatility of Vadim Gluzman as a performer and to the richness and variety of the influences at play in American music during the 20th century. Like the text by Plato which inspired it, Bernstein's Serenade, from 1954, is a series of statements in praise of love. Musically it is typical of its maker, with allusions both to his own music and to works by Bartók, Mendelssohn and Stravinsky, and with a hint of jazz in the finale. Composed some thirty years earlier, Ernest Bloch's Baal Shem turns to the Jewish culture of Eastern Europe, dealing specifically with aspects of the Chassidic movement. Its second movement, Nigun (Improvisation) is probably Bloch's most famous work for the violin, an attempt to recreate the ecstasy generated by fervent religious singing. Samuel Barber, on the other hand, was deeply fascinated by the music of J.S. Bach and Brahms, although this is not always obvious in his music. His Violin Concerto, which he began to compose in Switzerland in 1939, while war was breaking out in Europe, has been described as having 'a chastened and aristocratic classic style'. That violinist Vadim Gluzman possesses the musical convictions and the supreme command of his instrument to do justice to all of these works will be clear to anyone who has encountered his previous concerto disc, with works by Tchaikovsky and Glazunov. The recipient of numerous distinctions, it was glowingly reviewed, for instance in International Record Review: 'The variety of tone, lithe, sinuous and febrile ... is truly exceptional.' Gluzman is here supported by the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) under John Neschling, a team that has demonstrated its versatility on a number of recordings ranging from Villa-Lobos' Choros to Liszt's piano concertos.

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April 2010

Gluzman is at his very finest in the Bloch, soaring aloft with a heart-warming intensity that captures the music's melodic plangency to perfection.

March 2010

Barber's Concerto is deservedly in the top half-dozen of the 20th-century repertoire. …a fine performance from Gluzman with a dazzling finale. The orchestra comes off well too, with a beautifully controlled oboe solo, given the theme before the soloist, at the start of the slow movement. There are plenty of recordings of the three works featured here but not many with the effortless command of Gluzman and his 1690 Stradivarius.

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