Fauré & Saint-Saëns: Violin Works
Deborah Nemtanu (violin)
Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Thomas Zehetmair
Awards:
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
Characterful and very French playing, with an idiomatic brightness and transparency in Saint-Saens, balanced by the more veiled Pelleas Suite and a rich-toned Berceuse.
Fauré & Saint-Saëns: Violin Works
Deborah Nemtanu (violin)
Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Thomas Zehetmair
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Awards:
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
Characterful and very French playing, with an idiomatic brightness and transparency in Saint-Saens, balanced by the more veiled Pelleas Suite and a rich-toned Berceuse.
About
Saint-Saens and Faure, two leading representatives of Late Romanticism, teacher and pupil linked by the same musical ideal. Both of them, with the fire of youth or in their full maturity, produced tender, luminous works. Confronted with Wagnerian mists, they brightened the French musical landscape. At her desk as leader of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris or as soloist, the violinist Deborah Nemtanu presents her vision of the last French Romantics.
Contents and tracklist
Saint-Saëns:
Introduction et Rondo capriccioso en La Mineur, Op. 28
Work length9:21
- Thomas Zehetmair, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Deborah Nemtanu
Work length17:42
- Thomas Zehetmair, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
I. Prélude (Quasi adagio)
Track length6:09
II. Fileuse (Andantino quasi allegretto)
Track length2:28
III. Sicilienne (Allegretto molto moderato)
Track length4:08
IV. La Mort de Mélisande (Molto adagio)
Track length4:57
Saint-Saëns:
Concerto pour Violon et Orchestre No. 1 en La Majeur, Op. 20
Work length12:12
- Thomas Zehetmair, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Deborah Nemtanu
Saint-Saëns:
Romance pour Violon et Orchestre en Do Majeur, Op. 48
Work length6:48
- Deborah Nemtanu, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
Work length3:41
- Deborah Nemtanu, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Thomas Zehetmair
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Awards and reviews
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Presto FavouritesRecommended Recording
April 2013
Characterful and very French playing, with an idiomatic brightness and transparency in Saint-Saens, balanced by the more veiled Pelleas Suite and a rich-toned Berceuse.
May 2013
The calibre of the musicians is well displayed in a wonderfully crystalline performance of Fauré's Pelléas...Nemtanu captures well the intimacy of Saint-Saëns's youthful First Violin Concerto and she's equally comfortable in that standard virtuoso, the Introduction and Rondo capriccioso
June 2013
Not only is Nemtanu a beguiling soloist, but Zehetmair is a most attentive accompanist, and the orchestral playing has a vitality and refinement that add much to the enjoyment of the performance
Violinist Deborah Nemtanu performs with energy and flair in this performance of the first Violin Concerto, and both she and the Orchestre chambre de Paris under conductor Thomas Zehetmair bring a sweet, radiant tone to the Romance in C major.
