Rozsa: Violin Concerto/ Sinfonia Concertante
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Composer: Miklos RozsaConductor: Dimity Yablonsky
Orchestra: Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer: Anastasia Khitruk
Performer: Andrey Tchekmazov
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Concerto for violin & orchestra, Op. 24: Allegro non troppo ma passionato
- Concerto for violin & orchestra, Op. 24: Lento cantabile
- Concerto for violin & orchestra, Op. 24: Allegro vivace
- Sinfonia Concertante, for violin, cello & orchestra, Op. 29: Allegro non troppo
- Sinfonia Concertante, for violin, cello & orchestra, Op. 29: Andante: Theme and Variations
- Sinfonia Concertante, for violin, cello & orchestra, Op. 29: Allegro con brio
Music reviews of Rozsa: Violin Concerto/ Sinfonia Concertante
Music Review: Bids Fair to Replace the Old Heifetz Recording!
Rating: 5 Stars
I've treasured my recording of Jascha Heifetz playing Miklós Rózsa's violin concerto for more years than I can remember, first on LP and later on CD. The concerto was, of course, written for Heifetz and he championed it assiduously. I believe that his recording with the Dallas Symphony conducted by Walter Hendl has never been out of print; it is considered a classic by violin connoisseurs. Unfortunately the recording, made in the 1950s, is in mono and although in very good sound for that era, it has long since begun to show its age. With all that I mind I began playing this new recording and was almost immediately thinking, 'My goodness, this is just as good as Heifetz!' And that impression remained. This concerto deserves to be better known. It is richly romantic, brilliantly orchestrated, and contains some of Rózsa's finest work. (For the curious, Rózsa reworked the concerto and it appears in a 1970 film, Billy Wilder's 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'.)
Anastasia Khitruk, a name new to me, is a young Russian-born, American-trained violinist possessed of a fine technique and innate musicality. And not only has she recorded a very fine performance of the violin concerto, she has revived Rózsa's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 29, and recorded it with another Russian-American musician, cellist Andrey Tchekmazov. For me this was a wonderful discovery. After several hearings I have decided that it is the equal of the violin concerto. Somewhat more spiky in places than the Violin Concerto, it is nonetheless in high romantic style, brilliantly constructed and orchestrated. I particularly like the middle movement, a theme and variations, which is then followed by a finale that brims with Hungarian brio. The two soloists play in perfect accord with each other, a wedding of similar styles and techniques. In my dreams I imagine these fine artists appearing in a concert doing the Rózsa and Brahms double concertos in tandem. Now THAT is a concert I'd go a long distance to hear!
Conductor Dmitry Yablonsky (himself a fine cellist) leads the Russian Philharmonic in sensitive, richly played and recorded performances. For me this is one of the better CDs of the year. Enthusiastically recommended.
Scott Morrison
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