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By Karl W. NehringHilary Hahn: ParisChausson: Poème; Prokofiev: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1; Rautavaara: Deux Sérénades. Hilary Hahn, violin; Mikko Franck, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Deutsche Grammophon 483 9847.This new release from the talented American violinist Hilary Hahn is a delight from start to finish. Although the album title and orchestra might lead you to assume a program featuring all French composers, that is not the case here, for in addition to the French composer Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) we have also music by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) and the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016). Hahn reveals her deep affection for and kinship with the City of Light in an essay in which she explains that in addition to her many other connections with Paris, her violin was made in Paris way back in 1865 by a famed luthier whose shop has in the 21st century […]
2020-03-01 14:23:54
Wigmore Hall, LondonViolinist Isabelle Faust shone as she partnered with oboist Xenia Löffler and Bernhard Forck It’s hard to think of any other leading violinist today who moves as comfortably as Isabelle Faust does between the 19th and 20th-century repertoire and the period-instrument specialists of baroque and classical music. She excels in both, and as if to underline this unfussy versatility, just a day after the release of her exceptional recording of the Schoenberg concerto with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Faust played concertos by Bach at Wigmore Hall, London, with one of Europe’s leading period bands, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. A number of Bach’s concertos survive as works for harpsichord and orchestra rather than in their original forms for other instruments, and the two solo violin concertos that Faust played, in G minor BWV 1056R and D minor BWV 1052R, are modern reconstructions of harpsichord works, though […]
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Faces of classical music
2020-02-02 16:37:00
The best new classical albums: January 2020
Recording of the MonthElgar (Edward Elgar: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations, Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85, & Romance, Op.62 | Frank Bridge: 4 Short Pieces | Ernest Bloch: Prélude, B.63, & Prayer, from Jewish Life | Gabriel Fauré: Élégie in C minor, Op.24 | Julius Klengel: Hymnus for 12 Cellos, Op.57)Sheku Kanneh-Mason, celloLondon Symphony OrchestraConductor: Sir Simon RattleRecorded at LSO St Lukes (September 3 & 7, 2019), Studio No.1, Abbey Road, London (June 6, 2019)Released on January 10, 2020 by Decca ClassicsWinning the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2016, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason's career was launched with a fanfare, resulting in a prompt signing to Decca Classics. His premiere album entitled "Inspiration" featured at its core the Cello Concerto he won the competition with – Shostakovich No.1. It gave promising insight into a performer encasing the main work with a potpourri of encores and highly personal pieces, a model Decca and Kanneh-Mason have tried to […]
2019-12-09 12:00:00
Baroque oboe sonatas played by Xenia Löffler, strongly recommended by Geoff Pearce. '... played very pleasingly with great style and panache by all instruments concerned.'
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