Concertos, Violin Concertos, Beethoven (composer)
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Beethoven & Berg: Violin Concertos
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin)
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
listening to these wonderful performances side by side is cathartic...The journey is vividly delineated from the outset of the Berg. With Abbado drawing sonorities from his first-rate orchestra,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th February 2012
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Orchestral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Disc of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Concerto
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Beethoven & Stravinsky: Violin Concertos
Vilde Frang (violin), Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Pekka Kuusisto
Frang’s exquisite tonal subtlety and enhanced range of dynamics allows her to weave in and out of Beethoven’s carefully graded orchestral textures, with a profound sense of listening and responding... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Dueñas’s performance favours the Concerto’s abundant lyrical qualities. In the magical Larghetto she combines unaffected simplicity with rich sentiment while her account of the ‘Rondo’ is certainly... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Debut Solo Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Young Talent of the Year
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Special offer. Beethoven & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati
Such glorious playing cannot be recommended too strongly, but for me the Beethoven performance makes a greater contribution to the work’s discography. I won’t soon forget how deeply Tetzlaff... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2019, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 21st September 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Special offer. Beethoven, Berg & Bartók: Violin Concertos
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding, Kirill Petrenko, Alan Gilbert
Where this set really comes into its own is with the 20th-century concertos, most especially the Berg, a work whose combination of Romantic cantabile, emotional thrust and tonally stretched... —
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Record Review, 2nd October 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Concerto
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2 CDs + Blu-ray Audio
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Two Romances
James Ehnes (violin)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
The warmth and sweetness of James Ehnes’s tone stand him in very good stead, and his pianissimo playing conveys an admirable sense of mystery. He’s greatly helped by having a sympathetic fellow-violinist... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
RecommendedItzhak Perlman (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini
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Gramophone Awards, 1981, Winner - Concerto
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Benedetti’s first entry is swift, weightless and agile, landing as it does on the softest of pianissimos, the effect at once both virtuosic and ethereal...because her overall approach is so... —
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Beethoven & Schnittke: Violin Concertos
Vadim Gluzman (violin), Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan
the performance [of the Schnittke] is extremely fine. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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New. Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 / Beethoven: Violin Romance Nos. 1 & 2 (The Original Source Series)
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
Purchase product
Vinyl Record
$58.75
