Linus Roth / London Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling
Violin Concertos
- Type SACD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917268928
- Catalog number CC 72689
- Release date 07 October 2016
About the album
This is the world premiere recording of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in its original version. There are a few different notes and phrasing bowings than in what is usually played. The most obvious audible difference is that the complete second movement is played with mute, while it has become a tradition that the violinist take the mute off for the second theme and therefore for most of that movement. This was never intended by Tchaikovsky. The work is the coming back to life and light, a work of positiveness. His music was strongly connected to his personal life. Linus Roth has played the piece for twenty years and feels confident to record his unique interpretation. Shostakovich’s Second Violin Concerto is a late work by the composer who at that time was already ill and knew that his life would soon be over. The conductor of the recording, Thomas Sanderling, was a close friend of his and remembers him well in his late years. Clearly this is not a funny piece, but tha
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11Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 129 Moderato
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12Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 129 Adagio
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13Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 129 Adagio - Allegro
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14Violin Concerto, Op. 35 Allegro moderato
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15Violin Concerto, Op. 35 Canzonetta - Andante
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16Violin Concerto, Op. 35 Finale - Allegro vivacissimo
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Linus Roth tells us all about his upcoming album: an inspiring video!
27-09-2016
After the intimate and at the same time very intense album with solo sonatas for violin by Weinberg, violinist Linus Roth is in a perfect flow, because he releases another new album! Again with Russian composers: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto op. 35 and Dmitri Shostakovich' Violin Concerto no.2 op. 129 which Linus Roth has recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Sanderling.
In an breathtaking video Linus Roth ...