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Music : Schoenberg Violin Concerto Op.36/Sibelius Violin Concerto Op.47
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Schoenberg Violin Concerto Op.36/Sibelius Violin Concerto Op.47 from: DG List Price: $16.98 CD-Charts Price: $12.99 You Save: $3.99 (23%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0028947773467 Label: DG Manufacturer: DG Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: DG Release Date: April 08, 2008 Studio: DG Sales Rank: 776 MPN: 001085802 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: 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. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Lyrical Schoenberg, Lost SibeliusThis recording pairs two concerti that, despite the obvious differences in tonal language, have much in common: both are large-scale, impassioned and, at times, achingly lyrical works that require technical mastery and musical maturity from both soloist and orchestra. As far as the Schoenberg goes, Hahn and Salonen meet these challenges unabashedly; it is the most well-controlled yet lyrical recording of this sadly underplayed masterpiece I know. Schoenberg's musical language--so difficult for so many listeners--is brought to life with remarkable clarity and, more importantly, treated with a lovely musicality that sings out the Romantic beauty of the work. However, while Schoenberg's lyricism generally reveals itself in shorter ... Read More: Rating:  - DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE!!! THIS is POISON!!!Yes, this is probably the best performance of the Schoenberg Violin Concerto ever recorded. That said, it is still a piece that looks better on paper than it sounds. The constant hype about the work does NOT make it a better piece of music. It is dull, paper music, PERIOD! This is musical castor oil played very sweetly, but even Mary Poppins won't make this go down "...in a most delightful way!!!" Hahn's hyperlyrical style makes the work sing better than ever before. The orchestra performance is excellent as is the conducting. The Sibelius is a DUD and completely earthbound. There is NO grit in this performance, it is all oily-smooth and punctilliously played, but it NEVER catches FIRE as it can. Just listen to Heifetz or David Oistrakh ... Read More: Rating:  - One that grows on youSchoenberg is an acquired taste. As hard as it is to go from sugary to bitterly dietary food, it is to allow your verbal musical pallette to embrace such harshness and brusqueness into that comfort zone. I know that when I was young, almost all of these composers from the 20th century sounded weird compared to Bach and Beethoven--Everybody from Stravinsky to Copland gave me some sense of change and development along the classical music timeline, but even Ravel's and Bartok's music had such rich and lush melody to swim through. Schoenberg (Lord knows I've come up with way too many metaphors by now; In the scheme of tests, it's like the Roraschach; In the scheme of games, it's like 'Where's Waldo?', etc.) is still a bit rough around the edges, ... Read More: Rating: - RevelatoryThe Schoenberg violin concerto is widely admired and widely studied, but it isn't much played, and it's never been much loved. This is partly because of the huge technical hurdles it presents fiddlers, but also because it isn't especially easy to bring off musically; in this regard it is unlike the piano concerto, say, which is far more accessible, and which offers up at least some of its beauties simply by being played accurately. I've heard most of the violin concerto performances previously committed to disc and never found them very pleasing; the soloist always seems to be eating his spinach like a good boy. As a consequence, I've always taken it to be one of Schoenberg's more rebarbative works, like the thoroughly unpleasant wind quintet. ... Read More: Rating: - What a pair!Schoenberg wrote two concerti after coming to the U.S., one for violin, the other for piano. The Piano Concerto has had a number of strong advocates over the years, including Glen Gould, Peter Serkin, and Mitsuko Uchida, and I own several recordings of that work that I treasure. I've always wanted to feel the same sense of connection to the Violin Concerto, but had never heard a recording that caught my imagination. Hilary Hahn's new recording with Esa-Pekka Salonen finally does this. Hahn plays the piece as though it were Brahms, and not a technical exercise. The music flows, and the hidden romanticism (which in Schoenberg often lies below an icy layer of irony) seeps through to the surface. I had never been fond of the Sibelius concerto until ... Read More: |
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