Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Septet
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Awards:
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Record Review, 21st December 2019, Record of the Week
Kavakos plays with his customary big, rich sound and wonderful timbre. The Larghetto is lovely in both the solo and orchestral parts. Few current violinists spin such a nuanced, silky legato...
Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Septet
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Awards:
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Record Review, 21st December 2019, Record of the Week
Kavakos plays with his customary big, rich sound and wonderful timbre. The Larghetto is lovely in both the solo and orchestral parts. Few current violinists spin such a nuanced, silky legato...
About
On the 'Sony Classical' label - Acclaimed violin virtuoso, Leonidas Kavakos, returns with his newest album ‘Beethoven Violin Concerto’. Kavakos is recognised across the world as a violinist and artist of rare quality, known at the highest level for his virtuosity, superb musicianship and the integrity of his playing. By the age of 21, Leonidas Kavakos had already won three major competitions: the Sibelius Competition in 1985, and the Paganini and Naumburg competitions in 1988. He now works with the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors. Leonidas Kavakos has also built a strong profile as a conductor. He has conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Danish Radio Symphony orchestras. The album is released a year ahead of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary in 2020. Kavakos has won numerous prestigious awards including a Gramophone award and ECHO Klassik award.
Contents and tracklist
- Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Heinrich Braun (bass), Marco Postinghel (bassoon), Wen Xiao Zheng (viola), Eric Terwilliger (horn), Hanno Simons (cello), Christopher Corbett (clarinet)
- Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace
- Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace
- Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace
- Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace
- Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace
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Awards and reviews
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Record Review21st December 2019Record of the Week
Jul/Aug 2020
Kavakos plays with his customary big, rich sound and wonderful timbre. The Larghetto is lovely in both the solo and orchestral parts. Few current violinists spin such a nuanced, silky legato line.
January 2020
Kavakos’s playing is articulate, deeply expressive and tonally ravishing, even in the most exposed, high-lying passages. The BRSO are with him every step of the way, and that’s particularly impressive given that the violinist takes an unusually supple approach to tempo..[The Septet receives] a glorious account full of incident and humour, and played with burnished tone and rhythmic élan.
24th November 2019
With his sweet, powerful tone and technical precision, Kavakos treats the performance as conversation rather than combat, decorating and accompanying as much as leading the musical argument.