Label: Challenge Classics
Format: SACD
Barcode: 0608917268928
Catalog number: CC 72689
Releasedate: 07-10-16
Format: SACD
Barcode: 0608917268928
Releasedate: 07-10-16
- The original version of Tchaikosky’s Violin Concerto Op.35 and a world premiere recording of the urtext!
- What is the main difference is that Tchaikovsky in the original version wanted the mute to stay on the whole movement while usually all violinists take it off for the second theme.
- Sanderling and Roth founded the International Weinberg Society together.
- Not only Weinberg plays a big role in their musical lives but also the befriended composer Shostakovich, of whom they have now recorded Concerto nr.2 together.
- Sanderling knew Shostakovich personally and has musical insights that you only can have when you know the composer.
- The nr. 2 Concerto of Shostakovich is seldom played.
- The London Symphony Orchestra is an outstanding group of musicians, world class of the highest calibre.
- What is the main difference is that Tchaikovsky in the original version wanted the mute to stay on the whole movement while usually all violinists take it off for the second theme.
- Sanderling and Roth founded the International Weinberg Society together.
- Not only Weinberg plays a big role in their musical lives but also the befriended composer Shostakovich, of whom they have now recorded Concerto nr.2 together.
- Sanderling knew Shostakovich personally and has musical insights that you only can have when you know the composer.
- The nr. 2 Concerto of Shostakovich is seldom played.
- The London Symphony Orchestra is an outstanding group of musicians, world class of the highest calibre.
This is the world premiere recording of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in its original version. There are a few different notes and phrasing bowings than in what is usually played. The most obvious audible difference is that the complete second movement is played with mute, while it has become a tradition that the violinist take the mute off for the second theme and therefore for most of that movement. This was never intended by Tchaikovsky. The work is the coming back to life and light, a work of positiveness. His music was strongly connected to his personal life. Linus Roth has played the piece for twenty years and feels confident to record his unique interpretation. Shostakovich’s Second Violin Concerto is a late work by the composer who at that time was already ill and knew that his life would soon be over. The conductor of the recording, Thomas Sanderling, was a close friend of his and remembers him well in his late years. Clearly this is not a funny piece, but tha
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1Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 129Moderato15:18
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2Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 129Adagio11:21
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3Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 129Adagio - Allegro09:40
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4Violin Concerto, Op. 35Allegro moderato20:26
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5Violin Concerto, Op. 35Canzonetta - Andante06:40
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6Violin Concerto, Op. 35Finale - Allegro vivacissimo10:58