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Beethoven - Violin Concerto, ’Kreutzer’ Sonata No 9, Op.47 | Harmonia Mundi HMC901944

Beethoven - Violin Concerto, ’Kreutzer’ Sonata No 9, Op.47

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Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMC901944

Barcode: 0794881847525

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 3rd September 2007

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Contents

Artists

Isabelle Faust (violin)
Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Prague Philharmonia

Conductor

Jiri Belohlavek

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Violin Concerto in D major, op.61
Violin Sonata no.9 in A major, op.47 'Kreutzer'

Artists

Isabelle Faust (violin)
Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Prague Philharmonia

Conductor

Jiri Belohlavek

About

Harmonia Mundi's key artists team up again to repeat the success of previous Gramophone Editor's Choices, in Beethoven's seminal violin concerto coupled with the 'Kreutzer' Sonata.
Gramophone gave Isabelle Faust its Young Artist of the Year Award for her first recording, of sonatas by Béla Bartók, in 1997. Her subsequent CDs have all been lavished with praise from the critics. She plays the 'Sleeping Beauty' Stradivarius 1701.
Alexander Melnikov has recorded several CDs for harmonia mundi, as soloist (in a Scriabin recital) or chamber musician: with Isabelle Faust and Jean-Guihen Queyras. Since 2002 he has taught piano at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Jirí Belohlávek is considered one of the foremost conductors of his generation, thanks notably to his long experience with the Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the National Theatre in Prague (resident guest conductor), and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 1994 he has conducted The Prague Philharmonia, which he also founded.
In February 2005 he was appointed principal conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he took up on the first night of the Proms in 2006.
"When he first joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra as principal guest conductor in 1995, the position was regarded as a graveyard as far as future prospects in the UK were concerned: no previous principal guest had ever gone on to hold the top post with it or any other British orchestra. Belohlavek bucked the trend. He has proved that you don't need to be a showman to make an impact. In the concert hall audiences instinctively recognise that his priority is the music, not his ego. His dry Bohemian charm has become more pronounced with age, and the same maturing process has informed his music-making." Andrew Clark,The Financial Times 7th July 2007

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