Romantic Violin

A compilation of classical music from the Romantic era reinterpreted by some of Windham Hill's top artists, Romantic Music of the 19th Century is primarily of interest to new age fans, since the atmospheric rearrangements recall the work of the performers, not the composers.

Robert Schumann - Complete Works For Violin And Orchestra
Ulf Wallin / Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie / Frank Beermann
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 316 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: BIS # BIS-SACD-1775 | Country/Year: Europe 2011
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

This SACD is a delight! (…) If you are not familiar with Schumann’s violin concerto, by all means avail yourself of this excellent BIS SACD – I think you will be happy to make its acquaintance.

Hideko Udagawa’s latest album for Russian label Northern Flowers celebrates rich legacy of Russian music with world premieres and rare works for violin and piano. Recording includes first recordings of new transcriptions of Rachmaninov’s Elégie and Tchaikovsky’s Romance.

Jean Sibelius & Magnus Lindberg - Violin Concertos
Lisa Batiashvili, violin / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Sakari Oramo
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 262 MB | Full Artwork: 143 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Sony Classical # 88697129362 | Country/Year: Germany 2007
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, 21st Century, Violin

…In 2001 Batiashvili appeared in a recording premiere of the Olli Mustonen Concerto for 3 violins, with fellow violinists Jaakko Kuusisto and Pekka Kuusisto, on the Ondine label. Over the next few years her career blossomed with major concert dates across Europe and the U.S. In August 2006 she premiered the Lindberg Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall, with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Louis Langrée conducting. Batiashvili signed a recording contract with Sony in 2007 and went on to record the Beethoven Violin Concerto for that label and a disc of works by Mozart and Britten. In 2008 Batiashvili gave the premiere in London of the Kancheli double concerto Broken Chant, for violin, oboe, and orchestra, with her husband François Leleux and the BBC Symphony Orchestra…

The young violinist Alina Ibragimova is already established as an admired recording artist, standing alongside great artists of the past and present with her versions of Bach and Beethoven’s violin works. She appears on this latest release with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Vladimir Jurowski (in his Hyperion premiere) in a programme which includes a classic of the concerto repertoire: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64.

In this selection of Sonatas the artists reveal Schumann’s development as a composer; this recording includes the third Sonata which was neglected for a century after Schumann’s death, only premiering in 1956. Named Instrumentalist of the Year in 2005 by Musical America, Christian Telzlaff has long been considered a top international violinist. His recording of the Mendelssohn and Schumann violin concertos released with Ondine in 2011 (ODE11952) received the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Records Critics Association).

Hyperion’s Romantic Violin Concerto series returns with three real rarities, rescuing them from their current neglect. All receive the strongest advocacy from Linus Roth, who plays them like the repertoire standards they may one day become.

Robert Schumann - The Violin Sonatas
Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 326 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: BIS # BIS-SACD-1784 | Country/Year: Europe 2011
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

… Violinist Ulf Wallin and pianist Roland Pöntinen recorded the Sonata No. 1 in 2009 in Stockholm and the remaining sonatas in 2010 in Berlin, and there is a noticeable improvement in sound quality in the later recordings, possibly due to closer microphone placement and more resonant acoustics. Even so, Wallin and Pöntinen are consistent in their penetrating interpretations and they deliver handsome performances that hold the album together and make it a fine artistic achievement.