One downside: the insert-notes are really heavy going. Violinist Tossy Spivakovsky and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Tauno Hannikainen, recorded Jean Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor, along with the orchestral tone poem Tapiola, on 35mm three-track magnetic film, and the 1960 recording is so clear and realistic that hearing it is almost as good as attending a concert. He aspired to become a violin virtuoso himself but unfortunately fixed on that goal too late for it to. But Sibelius and the violin are connected in other ways, too. Jean Sibelius’ D-minor Violin Concerto towers as an icy summit in the instrument’s literature.
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This absolutely keeps us in a pastiched Sibelian soundworld, with the orchestra sonorous and the violin taking flight, and full marks to him for having the courage to write tonal music which grips the listener rather than the geeks in ivory towers. Hilary Hahn Plays the Sibelius Violin Concerto. The six Sibelius Humoresques are given with a charm which belies their fearsome technical demands for the soloist, and well done Vass for making the opening of the Third sound like the self-interested pawing of a cat!Īn intriguing filler comes with Celestial Voyage by the American composer Nors S. The close miking does, however, often convey all the pattering of her left hand on the finger-board. Her virtuosity is ever-present but understated in the work's many cadenzas, salient notes deftly picked out, multiple-stopping sounding as though the entire string section is assisting. And Humphreys is almost operatically vocal in the resourcefulness of her fabulous Guarneri instrument, poignant and pure at the top, throbbingly throaty in the lower reaches. Sibelius loved Italy, and Vass and his orchestra bring a sumptuous Mediterranean sound at times (think Walton Cello Concerto) to complement the Nordic chill elsewhere. Along with the piano, the violin is the instrument best served with concertos, and what a variety there is Here’s a violin concerto Top 10 that embraces all the great works at the centre of every violinist’s repertoire ranging from the poise of the Mozart via the red-blooded Romantic works like the Tchaikovsky to the modern language of the Shostakovich and Bartk. Humphreys has been a much-loved performer at Vass' Presteigne Festival for many years, and the trust and empathy between them are in abundance here in an account which takes our perceptions out of Scandinavia and out into the rest of Europe. Not so here, in this vibrant recording from Fenella Humphreys, joined by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by George Vass.
VIBRANT SIBELIUS VIOLIN CONCERTO FROM FENELLA HUMPHREYSįenella Humphreys, BBC National Orchestra of Wales/George Vass (Resonus RES10277)įor all its acknowledged stature, the Sibelius Violin Concerto is an elusive work, not always convincing in performance, with soloists overawed by its technical difficulties, conductors bogged down in the mud of Finnish forests.
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