Nemanja Radulovic - Prokofiev - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Following his critically acclaimed Beethoven album, Nemanja Radulovic returns this fall with a terrific J.S. Bach album. Featuring the well-known Baderie as you have never heard it before, a brilliant transcription of la Sicilienne, Erbarme Dich, from Matthaüs Passion, with Philippe Jaroussky, the Double concerto for oboe & violin BWV 1060, Concerto for violin in E Major BWV 1042,. Infused by a very personal and chamber music style approach, Nemanja's Bach sparkles. Gramophone about Beethoven InchFor me, though, it's the Violin Concerto that's the prize on this disc. It's a dazzling, profoundly personal interpretation, and I'm already completely obsessed with it.Inch

With Roots, his first Warner Classics album, violinist Nemanja Radulovic draws on a diversity of cultures in a musical tour of the world. Roots has it's roots in the pandemic. InchThroughout this period I had the time to think profoundly about music... When the lockdown started I tried to create music, tried to practise, but I couldn't.Inch As a listener, the music that really made Serbian-born Nemanja feel alive - in addition to Mozart - was music that reflected the traditions of it's place of origin. InchI realised how much music could connect people, through it's sheer joy,Inch he says. InchI realised that there was one thing I could offer to a world that lockdowns had forced behind new borders. And that was to reconnect it all through music... through world music, which is the basis of classical music.Inch He takes his journey in the company of his own ensemble, Double Sens, whose members come from both France and the Balkans. InchThe pieces selected for this album are very personal. My wish is that each of you discovers a world without borders through this music.Inch

This album presents the core of the violin repertoire - Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Kreutzer Sonata,Inch says Nemanja Radulovic. While these Beethoven masterpieces have been recorded countless times, Radulovic's approach to each of them has an element of innovation. For the concerto, he has expanded Double Sens, the chamber ensemble he founded in 2008. InchI wanted to retain the special character of Double Sens as an ensemble which plays without a conductor and explores new ways of interpretation... In our recording of the concerto, we wanted to convey a range of emotions - courage, risk, joy, love, rage, sadness, nostalgia, and magical serenity and tenderness.Inch Rather than playing the grandly scaled Kreutzer Sonata in partnership with a pianist, he performs it here in his own arrangement for solo violin and five-part string ensemble. InchWhile remaining faithful to Beethoven, I allowed myself to exercise my imagination.