Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis Symphony, David Robertson – John Adams: Violin Concerto (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:08 minutes | 609 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
In 1994 John Adams composed his Violin Concerto, a work of breath-taking virtuosity written in an exhilarating and strongly rhythmic tone, sign that it was partly conceived for the New York City Ballet; even if the first movement is somewhat reminiscent − with its dreamlike atmosphere as well as fluid and elusive harmonies – of Berg’s Violin Concerto. It’s worth noting that the orchestra, in addition to its traditional elements, features a strong percussion section as well as two synthesisers that further add to the piece’s dreamlike and uncharted hue. That same year, violinist Leila Josefowicz (born in 1977) made her debut at Carnegie Hall in a concerto by Tchaikovsky conducted by Marriner: a big leap into what was to become an established international career. And it’s precisely for Josefowicz, small world indeed, that Adams wrote his dramatic symphony Scheherazade.2 for violin and orchestra: the bond between the soloist and the master is undeniably strong, and her interpretation couldn’t be more faithful to Adam’s original idea.
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Kirill Gerstein, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson – The Gershwin Moment – Rhapsody in Blue & Concerto in F (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:13:43 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Myrios Classics
After several albums respectively dedicated to Liszt’s Transcendental Études or Mussogorsky and Schumann, or to Concertos by Tchaikovsky (the First) and Prokofiev (the Second) for the Myrios Classics label, Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein is diving into the colourful and rhythmical world of Gershwin. Happily, he has chosen the Jazz Band (1924) version of Rhapsody in Blue, which he has transformed into an almost-cubist work, in perfect symbiosis with the equally-keen work of David Robertson: the piano-playing is really angular, sometimes chilling; the brass recalls the most modernist work of Bartók or Prokofiev or the new American music, at the start of the 1920s. The same goes for 1925’s Concerto in F, the extraordinary Earl Wild’s cool playing under the direction of Arthur Fiedler (RCA, 1959) dissipates with Gerstein and Robertson, to make way for more percussive sounds. Kirill Gerstein also offers – this album being made up of recordings made in concert – various arrangements (or paraphrases) of some of the more famous American songs, including a particularly juicy I Got Rhythm from Earl Wild. A particularly stimulating album for the winter months.
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Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis Symphony, David Robertson – John Adams: Scheherazade.2 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:36 minutes | 850 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Nonesuch
Nonesuch Records releases the debut recording of American composer John Adams’ Scheherazade.2, a new dramatic symphony for violin and orchestra. The recording features David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony and virtuoso violinist Leila Josefowicz, for whom the piece was written. The piece was informed both by the Rimsky-Korsakov piece “Scheherazade,” from which it draws its name, as well as the “Arabian Nights” collection of folk stories.
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David Robertson, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Marwood – Beautiful Passing, Music for Violin and Orchestra by Steven Mackey (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:21 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Canary Classics
Memory is at the forefront of this program, which pairs Steven Mackey’s moving, evocative violin concerto, Beautiful Passing, with Mnemosyne’s Pool, his expansive symphonic saga, to explore the different ways in which we engage with that most human of experiences. These performances capture the enduring relationship between David Robertson and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, in a stunning rendering of works by a composer Robertson has long championed. Anthony Marwood brings a performance that is lyrical, touching and thrilling in equal measure.
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