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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0028947773467 Label: DG Manufacturer: DG MPN: 001085802 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: DG Release Date: April 08, 2008 Studio: DG Editorial Review: Album Description: In another original pairing violinist Hilary Hahn brings together the familiar, highly commercial and long-awaited recording of the famous Sibelius Violin Concerto with the rarely performed Violin Concerto by Arnold Schoenberg. Hahn brings out the romantic qualities of Schoenberg's Concerto--known as one of the most difficult pieces in the violin repertoire--showing why it makes an ideal coupling with the Sibelius--"Hahn didn't merely play the notes, she passionately engaged with them." (The Daily Telegraph on a live performance of the Schoenberg Violin Concerto). As both an acclaimed Sibelius interpreter and a known advocate of 20th-century music in concert halls worldwide, Esa-Pekka Salonen is the ideal musical partner in this project. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Lyrical Schoenberg, Lost SibeliusThis recording pairs two concerti that, despite the obvious differences in tonal language, have much in common: both are large-scale, impassioned and, at times, achingly lyrical works that require technical mastery and musical maturity from both soloist and orchestra. As far as the Schoenberg goes, Hahn and Salonen meet these challenges unabashedly; it is the most well-controlled yet lyrical recording of this sadly underplayed masterpiece I know. Schoenberg's musical language--so difficult ... Read More Rating:  - DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE!!! THIS is POISON!!!Yes, this is probably the best performance of the Schoenberg Violin Concerto ever recorded. That said, it is still a piece that looks better on paper than it sounds. The constant hype about the work does NOT make it a better piece of music. It is dull, paper music, PERIOD! This is musical castor oil played very sweetly, but even Mary Poppins won't make this go down "...in a most delightful way!!!" Hahn's hyperlyrical style makes the work sing better than ever before. The orchestra performance is excellent ... Read More Rating:  - One that grows on youSchoenberg is an acquired taste. As hard as it is to go from sugary to bitterly dietary food, it is to allow your verbal musical pallette to embrace such harshness and brusqueness into that comfort zone. I know that when I was young, almost all of these composers from the 20th century sounded weird compared to Bach and Beethoven--Everybody from Stravinsky to Copland gave me some sense of change and development along the classical music timeline, but even Ravel's and Bartok's music had such rich ... Read More Rating: - RevelatoryThe Schoenberg violin concerto is widely admired and widely studied, but it isn't much played, and it's never been much loved. This is partly because of the huge technical hurdles it presents fiddlers, but also because it isn't especially easy to bring off musically; in this regard it is unlike the piano concerto, say, which is far more accessible, and which offers up at least some of its beauties simply by being played accurately. I've heard most of the violin concerto performances previously committed ... Read More Rating: - What a pair!Schoenberg wrote two concerti after coming to the U.S., one for violin, the other for piano. The Piano Concerto has had a number of strong advocates over the years, including Glen Gould, Peter Serkin, and Mitsuko Uchida, and I own several recordings of that work that I treasure. I've always wanted to feel the same sense of connection to the Violin Concerto, but had never heard a recording that caught my imagination. Hilary Hahn's new recording with Esa-Pekka Salonen finally does this. Hahn plays the piece as though ... Read More |
