Christian Tetzlaff - Concerto for Orchestra Partita for Violin & Orch - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Star-violinist Christian Tetzlaff, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor John Storgards present in this album two major British violin concertos written between a century, in 1910 and 2005. Elgar's passionate violin concerto, completed in 1910, is a classical-romantic violin concerto in three movements. This huge and highly emotional work was in the wake of modernism neglected for several decades before entering into standard concerto repertoire. Here Christian Tetzlaff follows the model of the early recordings of Elgar's concerto with substantially quicker tempos compared to most modern recordings, and having a great influence on the impact of the piece. Ades' violin concerto 'Concentric Paths', is already a modern classic and no doubt one of the most important concertos written during this century. With it's very demanding violin part the work has all the elements of a true concerto, allowing the soloist to sing with his instrument. The beauty of this music lies that everything is written so clearly.

In this new concerto album one of the greatest violinist of his generation, Christian Tetzlaff, offers profound interpretations of two deeply dramatic and lyrical concertos - those of Brahms and Berg - together with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Robin Ticciati. InchReasons of substance justify the recording of the Violin Concertos of Johannes Brahms and Alban Berg on a single album both works concern existential human states of being. For me, the concerto by Johannes Brahms is a work that in a violin concerto dares to address very dangerous, abysmal, and profound states of the soul. Here an enormous contrast between ecstasy and total lonely isolation is in evidence. (...) Brahms also has a lot to say about pain. That's rare in violin concertos - and links the Brahms concerto to the one by Alban Berg. I've been playing both concertos for 40 years - and I've played both of them, taken together, much more than 300 times. Here it seems to me as though the experience of these pieces changes one's own life.Inch (Christian Tetzlaff's liner notes)

Christian Benda - Violin Concertos I [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/20/2001