Nielsen: Violin Concerto: and works by Halvorsen and Svendsen

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Lisa Jacobs plays with firm tone and admirable technical control in these live performances, and I’m particularly taken with the dark sound she draws from the low register of her 1683 Rugieri. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

Release Date: 3rd May 2019
Catalogue No: CC72799
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 55 minutes

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Nielsen: Violin Concerto, Op. 33 (FS61)

Work length40:05

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Lisa Jacobs
Bremer Philharmoniker
Mikhail Agrest

I. Praeludium. Largo - Allegro cavalleresco

Track length21:15

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II. Poco adagio - Rondo. Allegretto scherzando

Track length18:50

Album only

Halvorsen: Andante religioso

Work length7:18

$1.50

$2.10

$2.60

Lisa Jacobs
Bremer Philharmoniker
Mikhail Agrest

Svendsen: Romanze in G Major, Op. 26

Work length8:10

$1.50

$2.10

$2.60

Lisa Jacobs
Bremer Philharmoniker
Mikhail Agrest

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A new disc by one of Challenge’s outstanding female violinists: Lisa Jacobs performs a collection of late-Romantic Nordic works for violin and orchestra, the piece de resistance of which is Nielsen’s 1911 Violin Concerto. Two works by Halvorsen and Svendsen, written in the style of the Norwegian romantic tradition, complete the album.

Propelled by the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, the longing for pure wilderness and the cultivation of rural life, the Nordic National Romanticism arose. All three composers on this disc are descendants of this Nordic Romanticism. In their compositions, Svendsen and Halvorsen remain in form and harmony close to the music of their good friend Edvard Grieg and the distinctive Nordic use of melody; Carl Nielsen, however, goes on a voyage of discovery towards a new idiom with a strong desire for renewal on the one hand and a great need for the revival of the pure archaic on the other.

His Violin Concerto clearly shows this conflict. In a neo-classical 4-part form, reminiscent of the set-up of the Baroque concerto grosso, with seemingly simple classical-like themes and references to both Bach and Mozart, he takes the listeners on an incredible adventure throughout Nordic landscapes of pure wilderness and takes all sorts of harmonic and rhythmic twists and turns.

Dutch violin virtuoso Lisa Jacobs is known for her passionate performances, interesting programs and communicative qualities on stage. She is equally at home on the concert stage with concertos, chamber music, recitals and solo works. She has played in all the major concert halls of the Netherlands and around the world, both as a soloist with renowned orchestras and conductors, as a recitalist with her pianist Ksenia Kouzmenko and at chamber music festivals, always to highly critical acclaim, receiving brilliant reviews and finding ecstatic audiences.

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August 2019

Lisa Jacobs plays with firm tone and admirable technical control in these live performances, and I’m particularly taken with the dark sound she draws from the low register of her 1683 Rugieri.

Nielsen: Violin Concerto

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