Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364, would appear to be an immensely hard act to follow when it comes to concert pieces for violin, viola, and orchestra. Or so it would seem after listening to this album of works for the genre by composers Britten, Bruch, and Benjamin. None of the pieces heard here are performed with any regularity in modern ...
Mozart's sonatas for piano and violin present two issues of balance: the first is of the composer's making, but the second must be determined by the performers. The piano markedly dominates the violin in the early sonatas, and periodically in the later works, and the performers are behooved either to accept the lopsidedness with equanimity, or to ...
Understatement is the watchword of this 2004 CD of Beethoven's Violin Sonatas, Op. 30, and violinist Benjamin Schmid and pianist Alfredo Perl achieve fairly modest results in their close-to-the-vest performances. How they determined this approach may be connected to their recitals of all ten violin sonatas at Wigmore Hall, London, and their one ...
Among the highlights of the 2004 Salzburg Summer Festival was the special tribute to Erich Wolfgang Korngold, which featured performances of his Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, and several of his early chamber works; these live recordings were compiled by Oehms Classics as part of the annual festival's documentation. The most important of the ...
What we have here is an Austrian violinist with a lower Silesian orchestra under a Latvian-German conductor performing a violin concerto by an Austro-Hungarian and a double concerto by a German living in Austria. In other words, what we have here is a truly central European recording featuring young performers who play as if to the manor born. ...
Violinist Benjamin Schmid's choice of repertoire for this Oehms Classics album is perfectly selected for a number of reasons. For starters, the chronological sequence from Wieniawski to Szymanowski to Lutoslawski brilliantly showcases the often underappreciated lineage of great Polish composers. The works of these three giants are ideally suited ...
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