Born in 2000, Swedish violinist Johan Dalene is already making an impact on the international scene. His refreshingly honest musicality, combined with an ability to engage with musicians and audiences alike, has won him many admirers. Johan began playing the violin at the age of four and made his professional concerto debut three years later. A student at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, he has also worked closely with mentors including Janine Jansen, Leif Ove Andsnes and Gidon Kremer. Johan has been a prize winner at a number of competitions, most recently the prestigious Carl Nielsen Competition at which he won First Prize. During the finals of the Nielsen competition Johan performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, a work which he had already recorded for BIS two months earlier, in January 2019. On this debut recording, Johan plays with his ‘local band’: Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, known from many acclaimed recordings on BIS. The release closes with Samuel Barber’s lyrical and contemplative Violin Concerto from 1939.
“…Dalene plays throughout with an engaging flair, command and emotional range remarkable from such a young player… this is one of the finest violin debuts of the last decade.”
Julian Haylock - BBC Music magazine - March 2020
Editor’s Choice – Orchestral section
“… He [Dalene] and his like-minded conductor – the excellent Danial Blendulf – deliver a thoroughly coherent and embraceable view of the piece [Barber] … Dalene’s compatriots, the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, play with equal freshness throughout …”
Edward Seckerson – Gramophone magazine – February 2020
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