Brahms: Violin Concerto, Op. 77 & Double Concerto, Op. 102 Classical Orchestral & Concertos Naxos

Brahms: Violin Concerto, Op. 77 & Double Concerto, Op. 102

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Brahms: Violin Concerto, Op. 77 & Double Concerto, Op. 102

Label Catalogue Number:
8.573772

Running Time: 71:59

Release Date: May 2019
Originally recorded in 2019

Genre:
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos

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Brahms’ string concertos are indissolubly linked with the musicians for whom the works were written. He wrote his Violin Concerto for Joseph Joachim, and in it he combined what a contemporary critic termed ‘the great and serious’ with songful lyricism, melodic beauty, and a fiery Hungarian finale. To mend a breach with the violinist, Brahms later composed a concerto with the unusual combination of violin and cello, the latter played at the premiere by Joachim’s colleague Robert Hausmann. Neither instrument predominates in a work of reconciliation that embodies both drama and reflection.

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Reviews

**** Excellent Album

Laure Dautriche - Classica magazine (France) - November 2019

Recommended

“…In every respect, these fresh and vital interpretations by Yang and Schwabe make this disc a complete success.”

Robert Cummings – MusicWeb-International.com – 2 August 2019

Performance ***** Recording ****

"... She [Yang] has technique to spare, produces a gloriously open sonority on her 1730 Guarneri del Gesù, and possesses a vibrant musical personality ideal for the recording studio. The clarity of her glistening tone and technical dexterity are matched by an uncluttered interpretative instinct that proves especially handy in these old warhorses, which otherwise have a tendency to get bogged down in a rhetorical mire. Yang keeps the music flowing naturally ... "... The overall effect is of Brahms's score having had a good musical spring-clean, powered along by a resplendent Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under distinguished Naxos stalwart, Antoni Wit. In the Double Concerto Yang is joined by Gabriel Schwabe, another exceptional young player... Yang and Schwabe play with a silky purity ... these are by any standards very fine performances."

Julian Haylock - BBC Music magazine - August 2019

“…With good notes on the music and the performers this new disc contains some very enjoyable, even outstanding Brahms. In addition, Naxos’s attractive price makes this especially desirable.”

Leslie Wright – MusicWeb-International.com – 20 June 2019

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