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Vieuxtemps - Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2, Greeting to America

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Label: Hyperion - Romantic Violin Concertos

Cat No: CDA67878

Barcode: 0034571178783

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th April 2012

Works

Vieuxtemps, Henri

Greeting to America, op.55
Violin Concerto no.1 in E major, op.10
Violin Concerto no.2 in F sharp minor, op.19

Artists

Chloe Hanslip (violin)
Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Martyn Brabbins

Works

Vieuxtemps, Henri

Greeting to America, op.55
Violin Concerto no.1 in E major, op.10
Violin Concerto no.2 in F sharp minor, op.19

Artists

Chloe Hanslip (violin)
Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Martyn Brabbins

About

Hyperion’s record of the month for May heralds a new collaboration with the brilliant young British violinist Chloë Hanslip, the former child prodigy famously signed to Warner Classics at the age of just fourteen. Here she lends her now-mature talents to the second release in Hyperion’s overview of Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concertos and Volume 12 of the burgeoning Romantic Violin Concerto series.

Henry Vieuxtemps (1820–1881) was a French violin virtuoso who, after the death of Paganini, was widely considered to be the best violinist in Europe. Besides being a brilliant player, he was a remarkably fine composer, as demonstrated in these, his first two concertos. Alongside the memorable violin fireworks, Vieuxtemps here shows a well-argued musical sensibility that straddles both the Classical and Romantic eras as well as the ability to write gorgeous, almost operatic slow movements in the best bel canto tradition.