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Baiba Skride, Santtu-Matias Rouvali - Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto, 2 Serenades; Carl Nielsen: Violin Concerto (2015)

Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto, 2 Serenades; Carl Nielsen: Violin Concerto (2015) 2CDs
Baiba Skride, violin; Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 330 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Orfeo | # C 896 152 A | Time: 01:26:32

Born into a musical Latvian family violinist Baiba Skride won First Prize at the 2010 Queen Elisabeth Competition, held annually in Belgium. Ms. Skride’s natural approach to her music making has endeared her to some of today’s most important conductors and orchestras. Following her debut at the BBC Proms with the Oslo Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko playing the Szymanowski Concerto No. 1, The Times noted, ‘Latvian violinist Baiba Skride sailed over the orchestra with long lines of melody, silver and sweet.’ She was immediately re-invited, and at the 2014 Proms played the Stravinsky Concerto with the BBC Symphony and Ed Gardner. Baiba Skride debut recording with Orfeo of the Szymanowski Concertos and Myths was nominated for the 2015 BBC Music Magazine Awards in the Concerto section. For her Orfeo CD follow up she has recorded two Scandinavian violin concertos truly exciting, fresh and innovative – Jean Sibelius’s well-loved concerto and Carl Nielsen’s unjustly neglected companion work – with the Tampere Philharmonic and conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
Cho-Liang Lin, Esa-Pekka Salonen - Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen: Violin Concertos (1988)

Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen - Violin Concertos (1988)
Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Philharmonia Orchestra; Swedish RSO; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 280 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 170 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: CBS | # MK 44548 | Time: 01:09:17

This sensational disc has served as a reference edition for both concertos since it was first issued back in the late 1980s. The Sibelius concerto is distinguished by the tension between Lin’s passionate and virtuosic account of the solo part and Salonen’s remarkable precision at the head of the orchestra. Listen, for example, to the remarkable rhythmic clarity at the opening of the finale, and to the way this serves to “float” Lin’s daredevil pyrotechnics up above. It’s just marvellous. The same holds true of the Nielsen–there is no finer account of this neglected concerto. It’s a rarity because in the finale Nielsen subordinates flash and dazzle to the work’s overall emotional arc, progressing from anger to contentment. That doesn’t mean the music isn’t excellent, or that Lin and Salonen’s performances aren’t gripping from first note to last. They tear into the opening movement with apt ferocity and find the necessary emotional resolution in the work’s amiable conclusion. The detailed, well-balanced sound ideally suits the interpretations. Essential.
Johan Dalene, John Storgårds, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Sibelius, Nielsen: Violin Concertos (2022)

Johan Dalene, John Storgårds, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Sibelius, Nielsen: Violin Concertos (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 323 Mb | Total time: 73:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-2620 SACD | Recorded: 2021

Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius, alongside Grieg the two giants in Nordic classical music, were both born in 1865. Both also received their first musical training on the violin, earning valuable insights when it came to writing for the instrument. Their respective violin concertos were composed some six years apart – Sibelius’ in 1904-05 and Nielsen’s in 1911 – and belong to the most performed works of either composer. They are nevertheless as different from each other as are the artistic temperaments of their makers. While retaining the traditional three-movement concerto form, Sibelius composed something closer to a Late-Romantic orchestral tone poem giving the orchestra unusual prominence. Nielsen on the other hand opted for an unconventional form, reminiscent of the Baroque concerto grosso: the spiky, neoclassical work is nominally in two movements, but with each movement having a slow and a fast section.

Baiba Skride & Lauma Skride - Violin Sonatas & Pieces (2016)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at May 7, 2023
Baiba Skride & Lauma Skride - Violin Sonatas & Pieces (2016)

Baiba Skride & Lauma Skride - Violin Sonatas & Pieces (2016)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 1:11:55 | 314 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Orfeo | Catalog: C 913 161 A

On their new CD the Latvian Skride sisters present yet more composers from their extended Baltic homeland region (allowing that they include Norwegian Edvard Grieg, especially since he composed his Sonata in Copenhagen, then called Christiania). The uniting thread of the works on this CD lies in ‘finding one’s own sound’, something which each of the featured composers first had to find, and an element that the sisters effortlessly achieve as performers.
Cecilia Zilliacus, Helsingborg SO, Daniel Blendulf - Carl Nielsen: Works for Violin, Vol. 2  (2015)

Carl Nielsen - Violin Concerto; Prelude & Theme with Variations; Prelude & Presto (2015)
Cecilia Zilliacus, violin; Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Blendulf, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 275 Mb | Scans included | Time: 01:06:03
Genre: Classical | Label: dB Productions | # DBCD162

GRAMOPHONE Magazine Editor's Choice - February 2016. dB Productions celebrate the 150th anniversary of Carl Nielsen with two CD volumes of his music! Featured again on this second volume is one of Sweden’s leading violinists, Cecilia Zilliacus, in Nielsen’s violin concerto. The Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra is conducted by young rising star, Daniel Blendulf.
James Ehnes, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Nielsen: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 4 (2023)

James Ehnes, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Nielsen: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 4 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 269 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 156 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:51
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

Nielsen’s epic Violin Concerto was premiered in Copenhagen in February 1912, by violinist Peder Moller. Nominally the work is set in two movements; both open with a slow section and move to a faster one. Whilst unusual, this could be seen as a more usual fast – slow – fast three movement form, but with an extensive slow introduction to the first movement. The music moves quickly from one idea to the next, and overall has a bold, playful and optimistic feel. In stark contrast, although written only a few years later, the fourth symphony is more cohesive and unified as a work. Written against the background of the first world war, the work is a celebration of life itself. Just before the premier in 1916, Nielsen described it as: ‘Music is Life, and, like it, inextinguishable.’ Composed in the usual four movement form, each movement continues from the last without a break. The final movement features two sets of timpani battling each other across the orchestra.
Liya Petrova - Prokofiev & Nielsen: Violin Concertos (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Liya Petrova - Prokofiev & Nielsen: Violin Concertos (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88.2 kHz | Time - 61:44 minutes | 1.00 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

After Liya Petrova won joint first prize at the 2016 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition, jury President Nikolaj Znaider declared he had been 'absolutely blown away by how she had absorbed the Nielsen violin concerto - how it had become hers'. From her debut album on Orchid Classics you can hear just why she made such an impression on those who heard her performance. The Strad praised the 'iron will' Petrova brought to Nielsen's concerto; a fortitude which is matched on this recording by the sensitivity in her approach to the first violin concerto of Sergei Prokofiev.
Liya Petrova, Odense Symphony Orchestra & Kristiina Poska - Prokofiev & Nielsen: Violin Concertos (2018)

Liya Petrova, Odense Symphony Orchestra & Kristiina Poska - Prokofiev & Nielsen: Violin Concertos (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 286 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 142 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:01:46
Classical | Label: Orchid Classics

After Liya Petrova won joint first prize at the 2016 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition, jury President Nikolaj Znaider declared he had been 'absolutely blown away by how she had absorbed the Nielsen violin concerto - how it had become hers'. From her debut album on Orchid Classics you can hear just why she made such an impression on those who heard her performance. The Strad praised the 'iron will' Petrova brought to Nielsen's concerto; a fortitude which is matched on this recording by the sensitivity in her approach to the first violin concerto of Sergei Prokofiev.
Lydia Mordkovitch, Clifford Benson - Carl Nielsen: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (1989)

Lydia Mordkovitch, Clifford Benson - Carl Nielsen: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 189 Mb | Total time: 45:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 8598 | Recorded: 1988

…The First Sonata dates from 1895, shortly after the First Symphony, and basks securely in the warm A major which the later Sinfonia espansiva was to spend much of its time trying to recapture. Lydia Mordkovitch gives it the full romantic treatment, and it took me a couple of rehearings (with a slight reduction of volume level) to feel at ease with her big, gushing tone, vehement selfassertion and impulsive rubato.
James Ehnes, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Nielsen: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 4 (2023) [24/96]

James Ehnes, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Nielsen: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 4 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 67:51 minutes | 1,12 GB
Classical | Label: Chandos Records, Official Digital Download

Nielsen’s epic Violin Concerto was premiered in Copenhagen in February 1912, by violinist Peder Moller. Nominally the work is set in two movements; both open with a slow section and move to a faster one. Whilst unusual, this could be seen as a more usual fast – slow – fast three movement form, but with an extensive slow introduction to the first movement. The music moves quickly from one idea to the next, and overall has a bold, playful and optimistic feel.