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Violin Concerto 1 / Viola Concerto / Ascending (CD) - CD

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Distributor/Studio:Challenge ClassicsPublisher:NAXOS OF AMERICA, INCUPC:608917279320Weight:0.25Product ID:SCYF7MKK82

Details: Here is an album whose contents seem odd as it couples the violin concerto of a (still) Russian composer to the viola concerto of an English one. Instead, the coupling is very clever since Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto, whose premiere was in 1923 (while the composer was still living in France, a few years before his return to Soviet Union) served as a much-admired model to Walton's Viola Concerto, whose first performance was played by Paul Hindemith in 1929. The similarities between the two works go beyond the three-movement structure slow-quick-slow and concern themes, accompaniments and the rondo form of the virtuoso central Scherzo. The smart idea of such unusual coupling came to one of the few great living violinists who can really play the viola with equal skill: Isabelle van Keulen. This glorious album is crowned by the orchestrated version of Vaughan Williams' masterpiece The Lark Ascending. One of German radio's best orchestras, the NDR Radiophilharmonie is conducted by Andrew Manze, Keri-Lynn Wilson, and Andrew Litton.

Distributor/Studio:Challenge ClassicsPublisher:NAXOS OF AMERICA, INCUPC:608917279320Weight:0.25Product ID:SCYF7MKK82
Publisher: NAXOS OF AMERICA, INC

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