Bernstein: Serenade & Haydn: Violin Concerto

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An imaginative pairing brings together Bernstein’s animated philosophical debate between soloist and orchestra with Haydn’s more genial discussion. Blacher sparkles. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2017
Catalogue No: COV91711
Label: Coviello
Length: 46 minutes

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Leonoard Bernstein: Serenade after Plato's Symposium for Solo Violin, Strings, Harp and Percussion

Work length28:25

Kolja Blacher (soloist)
Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn
Kolja Blacher

I. Phaedrus - Pausanias. Lento - Allegro

Track length6:18

II. Aristophanes. Allegretto

Track length4:04

III. Eryximachus. Presto

Track length1:28

IV. Agathon. Adagio

Track length5:50

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

Track length10:45

Haydn: Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob.VIIa:1

Work length17:50

Kolja Blacher (soloist)
Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn
Kolja Blacher

1: I. Allegro moderato

Track length9:28

1: II. Adagio

Track length4:13

1: III. Final: Presto

Track length4:09

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This CD features two violin concertos; both works have been recorded in an intimate chamber music atmosphere with a direct dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra. Neither of these compositions is a standard work within their genre and both were created by composers for whom the concerto played a peripheral role in their creative activities. Leonard Bernstein would never have utilized the title Concerto for any of his surviving works and concertos make up a negligible proportion of the compositional output of Joseph Haydn. Nevertheless, the Serenade by the former composer and the C major Concerto by the latter reveal a great deal about their creators and their relative historical position as is frequently the case with musical treasures off the beaten track of the musical world.

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February 2018

An imaginative pairing brings together Bernstein’s animated philosophical debate between soloist and orchestra with Haydn’s more genial discussion. Blacher sparkles.

Bernstein: Serenade & Haydn: Violin Concerto

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