Schoenberg Violin Concerto Op.36/Sibelius Violin Concerto Op.47
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Composer: SibeliusComposer: Schoenberg
Performer: Hilary Hahn
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-08
Music Label: DG
Soundtracks:
- 1 Poco allegro
- 2 Andante grazioso
- 3 Finale: Allegro
- 1 Allegro moderato
- 2 Adagio di molto
- 3 Allegro, ma non tanto
Music reviews of Schoenberg Violin Concerto Op.36/Sibelius Violin Concerto Op.47
Music Review: Grammy-winning Schoenberg? Surprisingly, yes
Rating: 5 Stars
If you were told to think of an artist whose work ended up at the top of a a Billboard chart and garnered a Grammy Award, you would probably come up with a whole host of composers before coming to Arnold Schoenberg. While there are certainly Schoenberg fans in the world, somewhere (I went to high school with one, actually), they are rare because of difficulty on both ends of a musical performance. The Violin Concerto, in particular, is a beast play, and it at times seems only slightly easier for the listener than for the soloist. Really, at times it almost seems like the listener must practice listening to the piece for as long as the soloist must practice playing it, just for the performance to sound good.
In this album, though, Hilary Hahn proves that this need not be the case. While she certainly had to put in a grueling practice regimen in order to learn this monster of a concerto, the result is her groundbreaking interpretation of the piece, her impeccable technique, and her always perfect sound--she turns a mess of a piece, rarely played and even more rarely enjoyed, into a work of art, and the reception the album has gotten shows that people all over agreed that she has done the seemingly impossible: she has gotten people to warm to Schoenberg.
There are plenty of artists out there who play the old classic concertos and play them well. There are some who even attempt novel interpretations of the pieces in order to bring some variety to the repertoire. The truly great violinists, though, are those who offer something new. Hilary Hahn is not just a performer; she belongs to that upper echelon populated by those who give listeners something amazing and unforgettable, and this album proves it (again--remember her Stravinsky album?).
Also included is a performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto, for those who want a side by side comparison, not to contrast with the Schoenberg, but to showcase the similarities and to make clearer the hidden romantic depths within the piece.
This is a recording that must be in the collection of any serious listener.
Description of Schoenberg Violin Concerto Op.36/Sibelius Violin Concerto Op.47
In another original pairing violinist Hilary Hahn brings together the familiar, highly commercial and long-awaited recording of the famous Sibelius Violin Concerto with the rarely performed Violin Concerto by Arnold Schoenberg. Hahn brings out the romantic qualities of Schoenberg's Concerto--known as one of the most difficult pieces in the violin repertoire--showing why it makes an ideal coupling with the Sibelius--"Hahn didn't merely play the notes, she passionately engaged with them." (The Daily Telegraph on a live performance of the Schoenberg Violin Concerto). As both an acclaimed Sibelius interpreter and a known advocate of 20th-century music in concert halls worldwide, Esa-Pekka Salonen is the ideal musical partner in this project.Few would argue that Sch?nberg's Violin Concerto makes for easy listening. Its angular expressions, weird, heavenly decoration and the long solos that seem designed to maim the violinist can be, simply, too much. Hilary Hahn, on this new CD, plays the work as if it were an outgrowth of Romanticism (which it is), rather than the start of a musical revolution (which it also was) and the result is lyrical, songlike, and, well, Romantic. Yes, the 12-tone thorniness is clear, but each melody makes sense not only within itself, but throughout the whole concerto. If the first movement puzzles, the Andante sounds practically like a Viennese Waltz and the finale is not only like a feat by a virtuoso, but a culmination. This is the most approachable performance of this work available. The Sibelius concerto gets a fine if unusual reading. Hahn plays it with a Nordic coolness; the first movement's long melodies have less passion than the listener will be accustomed to and even the finale, normally played with somewhat of a bellicose nature, comes off without much heat. But it certainly cannot be faulted as sheer gorgeous playing and neither can Esa-Pekka Salonen's accompaniments. -- Robert Levine
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