Korngold: Violin Concerto & String Sextet
Andrew Haveron (violin), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, John Wilson, Sinfonia of London Chamber Ensemble
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd April 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Editor's Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
There’s a telepathy between them. And they have a very clear take on a piece born of Korngold’s own intention that it be ‘more Caruso than Paganini’. It sings...I love that there’s a modesty...
Korngold: Violin Concerto & String Sextet
Andrew Haveron (violin), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, John Wilson, Sinfonia of London Chamber Ensemble
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Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd April 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Editor's Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
There’s a telepathy between them. And they have a very clear take on a piece born of Korngold’s own intention that it be ‘more Caruso than Paganini’. It sings...I love that there’s a modesty...
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Andrew Haveron and John Wilson deliver a fresh and intensely idiomatic reading of Korngold’s Violin Concerto, coupled with the formidable String Sextet.
Contents and tracklist
- Andrew Haveron (violin)
- RTÉ Concert Orchestra
- John Wilson
- Sinfonia of London Chamber Ensemble
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week3rd April 2020
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Gramophone MagazineMay 2020Editor's Choice
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The Times Records of the Year2020
May 2020
There’s a telepathy between them. And they have a very clear take on a piece born of Korngold’s own intention that it be ‘more Caruso than Paganini’. It sings...I love that there’s a modesty about Haveron’s performance. It’s so easy to overcook this piece. His unaffected delivery is key here..[The Sextet] gets an absolutely cracking performance here from key members of Wilson’s newly reformed Sinfonia of London led by Haveron.
3rd April 2020
Wilson is ever-mindful of the fact that though the concerto shares some of its material with Korngold’s film-scores, it’s emphatically a work for the concert-hall..His easy rapport with his soloist is evident everywhere – indeed there are moments where you’d swear the performance is being directed from the violin. Haveron supplies plenty of heart but no cheap sentimentality, sweet but lean tone, and immense care for detail that often gets swamped on rival recordings.
28th June 2020
Haveron is a charismatic and brilliant soloist who needs fear no comparison and Wilson’s committed advocacy is evident throughout.