Andrej Bielow - Dohnanyi Dvorak Suk - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Andrej Bielow - Violin Concertos 1-3 [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/26/2011

This CD launches a complete series of recordings of Robert Schumann's orchestral works, performed by the WDR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Heinz Holliger. Holliger's performances draw on a lifetime study of Schumann's music, thought, personality and fate. His approach imparts lightness and lucidity to these opulent scores through a hierarchical balance of parts, delicately gradated dynamics, and invigorating tempos. The widespread image of this romantic composer as a weak orchestrator receives a refreshing and well-grounded correction. Volume 1 of the series presents the First Symphony in B-flat major (Op. 38), Overture, Scherzo and Finale (Op. 52) and the original 1841 version of the Fourth Symphony in D minor (Op. 120).

Love Songs is a dialogue about love and it's reflections, created by four very close friends, the pianists Diana Ketler and Konstantin Lifschitz, violinist Andrej Bielow, and violist Razvan Popovici. These musicians journey through the subliminal passion, bucolic nostalgia, and gentle irony of Brahms' Liebeslieder-Walzer, as well as the intimacy and warmth of his songs Wir Wandelten and Wie Melodien zieht es mir. They continue with the exuberant admiration for the universe in Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, the ecstatic desire of Suk's Love Song, and, finally, the spiritual adoration of nature in Dvorak's Silent Woods and in the Spinning Room.