Release Date: 01 September 2018
Label: Orfeo
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 4011790932224
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Description
If you’re Heifetz, I’m Mozart!' Taking a phone call, Rózsa could scarcely believe that the legendary virtuoso was seriously interested in his Violin Concerto and was ready to give the work its premiere – but so he did in 1956. It was the same with the Violin Concerto by Korngold, Rózsa’s senior by ten years: the 1947 premiere of this twentieth-century classic again showcased Heifetz as soloist. Leonard Bernstein rated his Violin Concerto of 1954, 'Serenade', inspired by Plato’s Symposium, as his best work ever, and this work too – in its imaginatively slimmed-down scoring for string orchestra, harp and percussion – is now acknowledged to be an important 20th-century concerto for violin. The very different challenges posed by all three concertos are brilliantly overcome by Baiba Skride, whose unquestionable virtuosity nevertheless takes second place to the immediacy of her musical language and expression.
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