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Fricsay conducts Brahms - Violin Concerto, Symphony No.2 | Audite AUDITE95585

Fricsay conducts Brahms - Violin Concerto, Symphony No.2

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Label: Audite

Cat No: AUDITE95585

Barcode: 4022143955852

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 27th April 2009

Contents

Artists

Gioconda De Vito (violin)
RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester

Conductor

Ferenc Fricsay

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Symphony no.2 in D major, op.73
Violin Concerto in D major, op.77

Artists

Gioconda De Vito (violin)
RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester

Conductor

Ferenc Fricsay

About

"Her performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto in the early 1950s, under Ferenc Fricsay, was pervaded by a delicate lyricism and a romantic sorcery rarely encountered elsewhere." - Joachim Hartnack (contemporary critic)

Gioconda De Vito, one of the great violinists of her time, was considered a Brahms specialist. The only written evidence to date of her work with Ferenc Fricsay and the
RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester is the above mentioned quote. Precisely this collaboration was captured in a superb monaural recording by the RIAS broadcasting company in Berlin - a stroke of luck, for De Vito had an aversion to the recording studio.

The recording reveals all of Gioconda De Vito's strengths. She unfolds a large, singing tone, at once brilliantly radiant and warm. This accurate, crisply recorded performance by the RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester under Fricsay also brings out the very deliberate rhythmic organisation with which she shaped her cantilenas.

Recorded 1951/3.

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