Sibelius / Prokofiev / Zimmermann / Jansons / Phil - Concerto Violin/Concerto Violin 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Martin Jones - Piano Music [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/09/2010

Viennese rising star Emmanuel Tjeknavorian presents his first orchestral album, featuring an unusual and yet highly personal programme. First there is his signature piece, Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto, which brought him not one but two prizes at the 2015 Sibelius Competition, and which has been his debut on international concert stages ever since. Then there is the Violin Concerto by his father, Loris Tjeknavorian which he gives it's world premiere on this recording. As Emmanuel Tjeknavorian sees it, both of these violin concertos on this album share a strong relationship with their composers' origins. InchJust as Sibelius always expressed his Nordic roots in his music, so my father's proximity to the Armenian and Persian cultures is clearly recognizable in his compositions.Inch Critics and audiences alike rave about the young violinist's brilliant technique as well as saluting the astounding artistic maturity demonstrated by this young man from Vienna, praising his skill in combining Incha plucky approach and sweetness of tone.Inch The present album is a combination of the live recording from the artist's Frankfurt debut of the Sibelius work in March 2019 and a studio production of the Tjeknavorian concerto.

Following his Alpha recording of sonatas by Prokofiev, Ravel and Strauss, the violinist Tobias Feldmann now turns to the concerto form, performing the two major works of the Finnish repertoire for the instrument the violin concertos of Jean Sibelius and Einojuhani Rautavaara. Premiered in Helsinki in 1904, the Sibelius Concerto proved to be exceptionally difficult technically for the soloist. Sibelius revised his score, but subsequently composed for violin and orchestra only in shorter forms, the serenade and the humoresque. It was not until nearly seventy years later that a Finnish composer wrote another large-scale work for violin and orchestra, with the Concerto of Rautavaara, which in all respects equals the degree of virtuosity demanded by the earlier work.