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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1; Janacek: Violin Concerto | 
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| Creators: Leos Janacek, Dmitry Shostakovich, Marek Janowski, Mikko Franck, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Baiba Skride
Label: Sony Classics
Category: Music
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 90908
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 828767314624
EAN: 0828767314624
ASIN: B000BDIWT2
Release Date: February 6, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | 1. Nocturne. Moderato | | • | 2. Scherzo. Allegro | | • | 3. Passacaglia. Andante - Cadenza | | • | 4. Burlesque. Allegro con brio |
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One might think that, in the centennial Shostakovich year, his first violin concerto had been performed and recorded so often and so well that there were no new interpretative avenues to explore. To contribute yet another addition to the discography, a violinist would have to be very good, very courageous, and have something compelling and personal to say. The young Latvian violinist Baiba Skride possesses all these qualities in abundance. Born in 1981, first prize winner of the 2001 Queen Elisabeth Competition, she is embarked on a major international career as soloist and chamber musician; this is her third recording for Sony Classical. She uses her effortless virtuosity entirely in the service of the music, never for display, and her tone is strikingly beautiful: expressive, variable, warm and pure in every register. Her approach to the Shostakovich is very much her own: unusually inward, lyrical, and expansive. Her emotional concentration and identification with every mood are extraordinary. The slow movements are mournful, bleak, and desperate; carefully paced, inexorable build-ups sink back into forlorn resignation. The fast movements are brilliant but controlled and clear, the tempi never excessive; the climaxes are unbridled but not raucous. Janacek's Concerto, begun in 1926, remained a fragment (and its title a mystery), but he incorporated much of its material into his opera From the House of the Dead. In the 1980s, the Czech musicologists Milos Stredon and Leos Faltus reconstructed it, creating a short, dramatic piece full of Slavic dance- and serenade idioms, passionate declamation, soaring melodies and colorful orchestration complete with Janacek's beloved bird-songs. The brutally difficult solo part stays mostly in the stratosphere; the playing is terrific. Of the two orchestras, the Muenchner, recorded live, sounds better. --Edith Eisler
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BUY THIS! March 25, 2007
Milan Simich
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Yes, buy this, especially for the Janacek. Terrific piece and terrific playing by Ms. Skride. The Shostakovich, live, is very good too! I heard her recently with New Jersey Symphony, (I've heard her before in recital) in the Shostakovich violin concerto number 2, and her playing of the cadenza knocked me out. Skride is better than Hahn, or Fischer or Josewitcz, but doesn't have the press they do. Dare I say it, but she is as good as my favorite Janine Jansen! I haven't heard Batiashvili live, next week I will, so I don't know how I will rate her....but after all is said and done, the Mutter Of Us All still rules women violinists!
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