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Dvorak / Beethoven - Violin Concertos | BBC Legends BBCL42572

Dvorak / Beethoven - Violin Concertos

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Label: BBC Legends

Cat No: BBCL42572

Barcode: 0684911425727

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 27th April 2009

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Contents

Artists

Josef Suk (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Malcolm Sargent

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Violin Concerto in D major, op.61

Dvorak, Antonin

Violin Concerto in A minor, op.53

Artists

Josef Suk (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Malcolm Sargent

About

Czech violinist Josef Suk (born August 8, 1929) is the grandson of Josef Suk, the composer and violinist. He has had a distinguished solo career, founding the Suk Trio (named after his grandfather) in 1951 and the Suk Chamber Orchestra in 1974. His career as a concert violinist started in 1954, and he has given concerts all over the world and at the prestigious music festivals. He has made numerous recordings and is a six-times winner of the French Grand Prix du Disque, and winner of the Edison Prize and the coveted Wiener Flotenuhr.

Josef Suk is the great-grandson of Dvorak, so it is fitting that his wonderfully idiomatic performance, in stereo, of the composer's Violin Concerto with Sir Malcolm Sargent at the 1964 Proms is featured here. This was Suk's Proms debut.

The stereo coupling is a 1965 performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto from the 1965 Proms, again with Sargent conducting.

Recorded: Royal Albert Hall, London, 27 August 1964 (Dvorįk), Royal Albert Hall, London, 9 September 1965 (Beethoven).

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