Sebastian Bohren, CHAARTS Chamber Artists & Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Release Date: 18 June 2021
Label: Avie
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 822252245929
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Rising Swiss violinist Sebastian Bohren makes his AVIE label debut with two concertos from Mozart's "year of the violin" – Nos. 3 and 5 – paired with the composer's youthful Symphony No. 29 performed by Sebastian's musical partners, conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy and his compatriots the CHAARTS Chamber Artists.
Swiss violinist Sebastian Bohren, who's star is rapidly in the ascendant, makes his AVIE label debut with two concertos from Mozart's "year of the violin" – Nos. 3 and 5 – paired with the composer's youthful Symphony No. 29. Sebastian's interpretations bring out the sparkling energy of the concertos, written when Mozart was just 19 years old, yet at the same time a brandish a smoothly burnished sense of style. His partners on the album, famed Hungarian violinist-turned conductor Gabor Takacs-Nagy and Sebastian's compatriots the CHAARTS Chamber Artists – comprised of leading European soloists and chamber musicians – perfectly embody these contrasting characteristics, both in their accompaniments and their reading of the Symphony which was written within a year of the concerti.
Sebastian is equally at home as a soloist and chamber musician. He has performed with the Lucerne Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Basel Symphony Orchestras, among others, under such conductors as James Gaffigan, Andrew Litton and Ivor Bolton. His chamber music collaborators have included Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Thomas Demenga and Konstantin Lifschitz. He plays the "Ex-Wanamaker-Hart" violin made by Guadagnini in Parma in 1761
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"Bohren's gorgeous solo playing [is] full, handsome ... and vividly alert to the music's every shift and turn" - BBC Music Magazine, 5 STARS
"a varied tone palette that is as beguiling as his technique is striking" – The Strad
"refreshingly rich in colour and nuance" – Guardian
"elegance, sweet tone and lithe sound" – Planet Hugill
"bags of character ... a listening experience that commands the attention from start to finish." - Gramophone
"keen, sweet, intense tone and bravura playing." – The Sunday Times
Born in 1987, Sebastian Bohren studied the violin with Zakhar Bron in Zurich and Ingolf Turban in Munich. Equally at home as a soloist and chamber musician, he performs a wide-ranging repertoire spanning Bach to the present day. He has appeared with orchestras including the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under James Gaffigan, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Andrew Litton and Andrew Manze, the Basel Symphony Orchestra under Ivor Bolton, the Musikkollegium Winterthur under Douglas Boyd, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana under Heinz Holliger and the NDR Radiophilharmonie. He made his Lucerne Festival debut in 2018. A former member of the Stradivari-Quartet, Bohren pursues his passion for chamber music with artists like Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Thomas Demenga, Christian Poltera, Antoine Tamestit, Konstantin Lifschitz and Yekwon Sunwoo. He plays a violin made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in Parma in 1761 (the 'Ex-Wanamaker-Hart').
Tracklisting
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Christopher Tyler Nickel, Sarah Jackson
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Bruce Wolosoff
Charles Owen
Proteus Ensemble; Stephen Shellard
Benjamin Hochman
Apollo's Fire; Jeannette Sorrell
Yoichi Sugiyama
David Rabinovich
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Peter Szilvay, Aage Richard Meyer, Cam Kjoll, Ruth Potter
Joshua Bell
