Artist.......: James Ehnes
Album........: Korngold, Barber, Walton: Violin Concertos
Label........: CBC
Genre........: Classical
Catnr........: SMCD 5241
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: nov.-14-2006
str.date.....: nov.-00-2006
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.cbcrecords.ca
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD (1897-1957)
Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
1) Moderato nobile
2) Romance: Andante
3) Finale: Allegro assai vivace
SAMUEL BARBER (1910-1981)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14
4) Allegro
5) Andante
6) Presto in moto perpetuo
WILLIAM WALTON (1902-1983)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
7) Andante tranquillo
8) Presto capriccioso alla napolitana
9) Vivace
Runtime 78:53 min
Size 104,3 MB
Release Notes:
Canadian violinist James Ehnes opens his sixth CD
for CBC Records with Korngold's magnificent violin
concerto. It is the first of three deeply romantic
concertos from the mid Twentieth century, recorded
in the acclaimed acoustics of the Orpheum Theatre
in Vancouver, with the Vancouver Symphony under
music director Bramwell Tovey.
As one of Hollywood's busiest composers of film
scores, Erich Korngold was at the top of his
profession. He wrote 17 major film scores,
including two Academy award winners. Korngold's
1947 Violin Concerto turns inward to the lush
melodies and plush orchestrations he knew so well
from his work in the studios. It opens with a
glorious melody that captures the very soul of the
violin itself and was a good fit for the works
earliest champion, Jascha Heifet.
Praised internationally for his sweetly singing
tone and technical brilliance, Ehnes also includes
his first recording of the Walton Concerto. "Mr.
Ehnes can really play," raved the New York Sun
after Ehnes made his dΘbut with the New York
Philharmonic earlier this year, playing this
concerto: "from the violinist, Walton requires gobs
of lyricism, and Mr. Ehnes provided them. Seldom
will you hear such singing on a violin. He was
utterly seamless. Mr. Ehnes's sound was focused,
sweet -- but it was never sugary. Technically, Mr.
Ehnes seemed capable of anything. And he showed
admirable understanding of Walton's music."
James Ehnes rounds out this latest CD with the 1939
Violin Concerto by the American composer Samuel
Barber, one of the most popular and lyrical of
Twentieth century violin concertos.