Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (Hybr)

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (Hybr)

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (Hybr)
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
CD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Music Label: Pentatone
Soundtracks:
  1. Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35: Allegro moderato
  2. Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35: Canzonetta (Andante)
  3. Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35: Finale (Allegro vivacissimo)
  4. Sérénade mélancolique, for violin & orchestra (or piano) in B minor, Op. 26
  5. Valse-scherzo, for violin & orchestra (or violin & piano) in C major, Op. 34
  6. Souvenir d'un lieu cher, for violin & piano (or orchestra), Op. 42: Méditation
  7. Souvenir d'un lieu cher, for violin & piano (or orchestra), Op. 42: Scherzo
  8. Souvenir d'un lieu cher, for violin & piano (or orchestra), Op. 42: Mélodie

Music reviews of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (Hybr)

Music Review: A Musical and Assured Tchaikovsky Concerto, and More
Rating: 5 Stars

[I am utterly astounded at the negative tone of the previous customer review here of Julia Fischer's traversal of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and some of his other concerted violin works. The writer's reference to "frequent odd noises on the disk, including instrument sounds, fizzing, fuzziness and noises as made with a live audience" makes me wonder if s/he got hold of a defective disc. I heard no such extraneous noises. As for the negative comments on Fischer's technical abilities, I can only gape in wonder and assume we must have been listening to different discs.]

Julia Fischer is a young German violinist who has truly come into her own in the last few years. She is now recording exclusively for the PentaTone label and they have given her luxuriously refulgent SACD sound and marvelous engineering. She is supported here by the virtuosic Russian National Orchestra under Jakov Kreizberg, a rising Russian-born conductor living in the US since the 1970s (and brother of conductor Semyon Bychkov). Her playing here is subtle and nuanced, marked by extraordinary management of dynamics -- her pianissimi are hair-raising in the first movement cadenza; the brio of her playing especially in the allegro vivacissimo finale is sensational. And never an ugly sound, even in loud passages with double stops.

For lagniappe we get Tchaikovsky's two other concerted works for violin and orchestra, the lovely Sérénade mélancolique and the sprightly Valse - Scherzo, Op. 34, both played with the same flair and luscious tone as the concerto.

Finally, there is the rarely heard Souvenir d'un lieu cher ('Memory of a Beloved Place') with conductor Kreizberg at the piano. I will confess I'd never heard it before and was utterly charmed by this sixteen-minute work with its three movements: Méditation, Scherzo, and Mélodie. (The first movement uses material Tchaikovsky had composed and then rejected for the slow movement of the Concerto.) There is the usual Tchaikovsky melancholy coupled with a sensitive piano accompaniment (sensitively played by Kreizberg). It was so lovely that on first hearing I had to press the repeat function and listen to it again.

Recommended.

Scott Morrison
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Young violinists sometimes turn war horses like the Tchaikovsky Concerto into superficial virtuoso displays to show off their technique, but Julia Fischer gives us a thoughtfully nuanced view of the work that exposes details often ignored. Her tone is beautiful, and she varies it to fit the emotional content of the passages she is playing. While her performance is expressive, it is also a mature one -- she doesn't milk parts for their surface impact, rather she digs more deeply into the music to produce a performance that will bear many rehearings. While Fischer generates plenty of excitement in the outer movements, the Canzonetta remains in the memory for the sweet singing of her violin. Her lyric sensibility also makes for a Sérénade mélincolique stunning in its spare beauty. The Valse-Scherzo, Op. 34, is done with plenty of dash, and the three-movement Souvenir d'un lieu cher is superbly done. The contributions of Kreizberg and the Russian National Orchestra help make this disc a worthy contender even in a crowded market for Tchaikovsky Concerto discs. Kreizberg is also a sympathetic piano accompanist in the Souvenir d'un lieu cher. --Dan Davis

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