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Brahms / Bartok - Violin Concertos | Decca 4788412

Brahms / Bartok - Violin Concertos

Label: Decca

Cat No: 4788412

Barcode: 0028947884125

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 8th January 2016

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Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Artists

Janine Jansen (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Conductor

Antonio Pappano

Works

Bartok, Bela

Violin Concerto no.1, Sz 36 BB48a

Brahms, Johannes

Violin Concerto in D major, op.77

Artists

Janine Jansen (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Conductor

Antonio Pappano

About

As far as I know, the Brahms Concerto and Bartók’s First have never been coupled together before on disc”, enthuses Janine Jansen during recording sessions for this album, “but to me they seem a natural pairing. They may speak a different kind of musical language, yet they not only share a Hungarian connection, but also a profound combination of symphonic power and chamber-scale intimacy.”

Brahms’ (and Liszt’s) Hungarian inspiration stemmed directly from nineteenth-century gypsy bands, whose racy, seductive dance music cast an intoxicating spell over the sensation-hungry audiences of the time. Béla Bartók took a more radical view, and having declared passionately during his student years “All my life … I shall have one objective: the good of Hungary and the Hungarian nation”, joined his friend Zoltán Kodály collecting native Hungarian and Transylvanian folksongs in the field, noting them down on manuscript and recording them on a primitive gramophone as they went along. As time went by, the natural melodic contours and quirky rhythmic inflections of indigenous Hungarian folk music became an indissoluble part of Bartók’s own unique creative style.

Reviews

Janine Jansen gives us a lyric reading of rare inwardness and beauty. [...] Jansen’s coupling is shrewd and imaginative. Brahms originally planned his concerto as a four-movement piece. Add to his completed three movements the two-movement Bartók fragment and you have a five-movement work which continues to mingle lovelorn reveries with Hungarian high jinks of the highest order. It’s an inspired pairing. Richard Osborne
Gramophone January 2016
Refreshingly in this sometimes over-veneered work [Brahms], she is not afraid to let the sound turn fleetingly vehement when needed. The unusual pairing is with Bartók’s Concerto No 1, its first movement an unrequited love song from the composer to the violinist Stefi Geyer. There is no doubt of the sincerity of feeling in Jansen’s performance, all tender lyricism and contained but palpable passion. Erica Jeal
The Guardian 8 January 2016

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