Dvorák: Violin Concerto / Elgar: Sonata for Violin and Piano ~ Vengerov
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Composer: Antonin DvorakComposer: Edward Elgar
Conductor: Kurt Masur
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic
Performer: Revital Chachamov
Performer: Maxim Vengerov
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2001-01-16
Music Label: Teldec
Soundtracks:
- Vn Con in a, Op.53: Allegro Ma Non Troppo
- Vn Con in a, Op.53: Adagio Ma Non Troppo
- Vn Con in a, Op.53: Final: Allegro Giocoso, Ma Non Troppo
- Son in e, Op.82: Allegro
- Son in e, Op.82: Andante
- Son in e, Op.82: Allegro Non Troppo
Music reviews of Dvorák: Violin Concerto / Elgar: Sonata for Violin and Piano ~ Vengerov
Music Review: The greatest violinist alive today?
Rating: 5 Stars
I was looking to replace my serviceable but unexciting Naxos recording of the Dvorak concerto and am indebted to previous Amazon reviewers for steering me towards this one.
There are a number of extrinsically intriguing things about it: mainly, the fact that we need to view it as all the more precious given that Vengerov peaked so young and early, then essentially retired as a soloist from the concert platform in 2008 and has since given little indication that he will return to performing full programmes - although he has recently been playing encores following his conducting. Secondly, this represents one of his few truly satisfying recordings of the standard - well, standard-ish, as the Dvorak has always been just on the fringes - violin concerto repertoire. Both his Beethoven and Brahms efforts were compromised by listless, slack, wayward conducting from Rostropovich and Barenboim but here Masur provides the required quality of support, despite a rather slower approach to the Finale than is normal. (Is it a kind of perverse response to Vengerov's diabolical facility for playing at speed that prompts this response from his conductors, or it just that he wishes to avoid at all costs seeming "flashy", I wonder?) I could do with just that bit more wild abandon here. Thirdly, we are listening to an artist still in his early twenties and widely acclaimed as simply the best violinist in the world today - and turning to the rendering of the music here I hear nothing to cause me to dispute that.
He is lyrical, tender, poignant and searing by turns. His phrasing is extraordinary, his tone is consistently radiant and he is a master at encompassing fleeting emotions without sounding fragmentary; a Vengerov performance always hangs together coherently.
The Dvorak is a live performance from New York in 1997, although there is nothing about the quality of sound and no intrusions to alert you to this fact beyond the immediacy and sense of occasion which often accrue from live recordings. The gentle, subtle, autumnal Elgar sonata is a studio recording from 1997 and makes a somewhat incongruous bedfellow, the attempt by the author of the insert notes to convince us otherwise notwithstanding. Beyond some tenuous overlapping as musicians and a mutual admiration, it doesn't really signify, and a cynical commentator might suspect mere marketing expediency as the prompting behind this programme - but I don't really mind, as both are superlative performances and I am glad to have them on one disc when Vengerov's artistry is the link. He is wholly at home in Elgar's wistful, melancholic Fach and produces gorgeous, delicate playing, very ably complemented by the excellent Israeli pianist Revital Hachamov (as she spells her name), who shamefully gets no biography or billing - nothing beyond her name in tiny letters.
Description of Dvorák: Violin Concerto / Elgar: Sonata for Violin and Piano ~ Vengerov
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.This is a wonderful recording, a perfect match between music and performer: two great but not overly familiar romantic works, played by a superb violinist with a romantic heart and young enough to be guided by his feelings and his imagination. Vengerov is a brilliant virtuoso, but the most immediately striking feature of his playing is his tone: dark, warm, radiant, intense, vibrant, infinitely variable, and unfailingly expressive. His Dvorák is broad and expansive, with time to caress every detail and Nuance. It combines freedom and dignified restraint, passion and serenity, sprightliness and melancholy, drama and lyricism. The orchestra supports and abets him every step of the way with total flexibility and empathy and sounds terrific. The Elgar was recorded a few years earlier and here, the romanticism is perhaps a bit excessive: tempo changes and dynamic contrasts are more drastic, there are long fermatas and pauses and a lot of slowing down and speeding up. However, the sentiment behind all these extremes is so genuine that it never becomes sentimentality, and the tone is beguilingly beautiful. The balance is exemplary, the pianist most excellent. Unaccountably, the booklet not only prints his name in very small letters, but does not say a word about him--a grave injustice to a fine collaborator. --Edith Eisler
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