Violin Concertos by Linus Roth / London Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling

Linus Roth / London Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling

Violin Concertos

Format: SACD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917268928
Catnr: CC 72689
Release date: 07 October 2016

1 SACD

Label
Challenge Classics

UPC
0608917268928

Catalogue number
CC 72689

Release date
07 October 2016

"Everything that makes a collector happy. Artistically and technically speaking, this is a very nice production. The vinyl version sounds great. Especially the Stradivarius 'Dancla' on which Roth plays is convincing."

Music Emotion, 20-7-2020

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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

Wereldpremière van het oorspronkelijke vioolconcert van Tsjaikovski
Deze opname bevat de uitzonderlijke vioolconcerten van de, in Sint Petersburg geboren, componisten Dmitri Sjostakovitsj en Pjotr Iljitsj Tsjaikovski. Het 2e vioolconcert van Sjostakovitsj wordt zelden uitgevoerd. Het vioolconcert van Tsjaikovski daarentegen, is een van de beroemdste, en tegelijkertijd moeilijkste composities voor viool. Veel liefhebbers van klassieke muziek zullen al een opname van dit concert in huis hebben. Toch is het de moeite waard om ook deze uitvoering te beluisteren. Het gaat hier niet om zomaar een nieuwe interpretatie van goede musici. Nee, het is voor het eerst dat de originele versie van het vioolconcert van Tsjaikovski wordt uitgevoerd. En violist Linus Roth en het London Symphony Orchestra o.l.v. Thomas Sanderling, musici van het hoogste kaliber, spelen deze unieke versie met overtuiging. "The result is a very affectionate and inspired orchestral support, turning this concerto into an emotional and memorable event, not to be missed by anyone!". HR Audio, oktober 2016.

Tsjaikovski componeerde zijn lyrische vioolconcert in een resort vlak bij het meer van Genève. Hij was daar herstellend van een depressie, veroorzaakt door zijn rampzalige huwelijk met Antonia Miljoekova. Het Zwitserse landschap inspireerde de componist. Hij pakte zijn leven weer op en schreef dit vioolconcert binnen 2 weken. Het grootste en duidelijkst hoorbare verschil tussen de originele en de latere definitieve versie is, dat het 2e deel in de originele versie gedempt gespeeld wordt. Het is een gloedvol, lyrisch en vertroostend concert, maar ook weemoedig en in het laatste deel uitbundig en overmoedig.

Zoals gezegd wordt het 2e vioolconcert van Sjostakovitsj nauwelijks gespeeld. Het is een van zijn late werken. De componist was ziek toen hij het concert schreef en hij wist dat zijn leven snel voorbij zou zijn. Zo op het eerste gehoor is het al geen vrolijke muziek, maar onder de oppervlakte, zit diep van binnen nog meer verborgen pijn dan je zou verwachten. Dirigent Thomas Sanderling was een goede vriend van Sjostakovitsj. Hij voegt aan dit concert muzikale inzichten toe die alleen iemand die de componist persoonlijk kent kan toevoegen.

Dies ist die weltweit erste Aufnahme von Tschaikowskys Violinkonzert in seiner originalen Fassung. Einige Töne und Bogenphrasierungen unterscheiden sich von der gewöhnlichen Spielweise; der hörbarste Unterschied ist der, dass der gesamte zweite Satz mit Dämpfer gespielt wird, wohingegen es Tradition geworden ist, dass der Violinist den Dämpfer für das zweite Thema und somit für den Großteil des Satzes abnimmt. Dies war von Tschaikowsky nicht vorgesehen. Der Dämpfer gibt dem zweiten Satz das intime Gefühl und den intimen Klang. Tschaikowsky heiratete, doch erlitt kurz darauf einen Nervenzusammenbruch mit Depression und tragischen Folgen. Mit diesem Werk arbeitete er sich in Leben und Licht zurück, einem durch und durch positiven Werk – seine Musik war mit seinem persönlichen Leben stark verbunden.
Linus Roth spielt dieses Stück seit 20 Jahren und nimmt es überzeugt in dieser einzigartigen Interpretation auf.
Schostakowitschs Zweites Violinkonzert ist ein Spätwerk des Komponisten, der zu dieser Zeit bereits erkrankt war und wusste, dass sein Leben bald enden würde. Der Dirigent der Aufnahme, Thomas Sanderling, war ein enger Freund und erinnert sich gut an ihn in diesen letzten Jahren. Es ist kein fröhliches Stück, doch unter der Oberfläche verbirgt sich viel Schmerz in der Musik. Es unter Sanderlings Leitung aufzunehmen macht es besonders denkwürdig, denn er brachte die musikalische Einsicht mit, die nur jemand bieten kann, der den Komponisten persönlich kannte.

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Linus Roth

Since he won the Echo Klassik Award for his EMI debut album in 2006 Linus Roth has made a name for himself both as one of the most interesting violinists of his generation and as a champion of wrongly forgotten works and composers. His live performances and his recording of Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s complete works for Violin and Piano for Challenge Classics have brought him both critical and public acclaim. Roth’s commitment to Weinberg is further documented in his recording of Weinberg’s Violin Concerto with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the recording of Weinberg´s Concertino with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn ( both were named „Editor´s Choice“ by the Gramophone Magazin) and the recording of the 3 Violin Solo Sonatas, making him the first violinist to have recorded Weinberg´s complete Violin repertoire . In 2015 Linus Roth founded the International Weinberg Society, an organisation whose mission is to bring more attention to the Œuvre of the Polish-Jewish composer, to help organise concerts, lectures, exhibitions, as well as support publications about his life and recordings of his compositions.

After joining Prof Nicolas Chumachenco’s pre-college division at the Music Academy Freiburg, Linus Roth continued his studies with Prof. Zakhar Bron in Lübeck and with Prof. Ana Chumachenco at the Academies of Zurich and Munich. Salvatore Accardo, Miriam Fried and Josef Rissin all strongly influenced his development as a player as did Anne-Sophie Mutter, whose Foundation awarded him a scholarship for the duration of his studies. In 2012 he was appointed Professor for Violin at the “Leopold-Mozart-Centre” of the University of Augsburg, Germany.

Linus Roth has performed with the Radio Symphony Orchestras of the SWR and Berlin, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Orquesta de Cordoba, Orquesta de Navarra, Orchestra della Teatro San Carlo Napoli, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Berner Sinfonieorchester, Orchestra of the State Opera Stuttgart, Vienna Chamber Philharmonic, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and the Munich Chamber Orchestra and has shared the stage with the conductors Gerd Albrecht, Herbert Blomstedt, Andrey Boreyko, Dennis Russell Davies, James Gaffigan, Hartmut Haenchen Manfred Honeck, Mihkel Kütson, Antoni Wit, among others.

A passionate chamber musician, he can be heard with Nicolas Altstaedt, Gautier Capucon, Kim Kashkashian, Albrecht Mayer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Andreas Ottensammerm Itamar Golan and Danjulo Ishizaka and regularly gives recitals with the Argentinian pianist José Gallardo throughout Europe.

Linus Roth plays the A. Stradivari “Dancla” 1703, kindly loaned to him by the “L-Bank, Staatsbank of Baden-Württemberg, Germany”.

Composer(s)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Dmitri Shostakovich

Press

Everything that makes a collector happy. Artistically and technically speaking, this is a very nice production. The vinyl version sounds great. Especially the Stradivarius 'Dancla' on which Roth plays is convincing.
Music Emotion, 20-7-2020

It may be stark and unsparing, and darkly humorous, but Roth believes in every note and finds utmost support from the LSO and Thomas Sanderling.
Classical Ear, 26-6-2017

Backed by the fine direction of Thomas Sanderling at the head of the London Symphony Orchestra, the young violinist thus offers us an SACD that contains many beauties.
OpusHD, 29-5-2017

(...) a disc of strongly individual performances supported by excellent recording and documentation. (...)
Music Web International, 24-3-2017

Roth does the work full justice, ably partnered by a conductor who knew Shostakovich personally. Tremendous!
theartsdesk.com, 25-2-2017

His tone is strong and dark, with plenty of sinew.
Gramophone, 01-2-2017

European News Agency - 19/12/2016
European News Agency, 19-12-2016

''Shostakovich's second, rarer concerto is a bold coupling, intensely played.''
Sunday Times, 12-12-2016

01/12/2016 - Péché de Classique
Péché de Classique, 01-12-2016

Challenge Classics Highlights
Gramophone, 01-12-2016

Best Rating: 5 ***** Stars ""The sound world that Roth calls, will never release you. It is great teamwork, also with the orchestra."
De Gelderlander, 23-11-2016

Res Musica - 19/11/2016
Res Musica, 19-11-2016

Linus Roth is unaffected by his path, the path of a responsible musician who is concerned with soundness and depth, not an effect. ..
pizzicato, 07-11-2016

Schimmer PR / 01-11-2016
Classica (F), 01-11-2016

Diskotabel review on Radio 4 by the critical panel in De Vergelijking: "This recording has a classical approach and a clear sound. The violinist plays very well!"
Radio 4 Diskotabel, 31-10-2016

"The result is a very affectionate and inspired orchestral support, turning this concerto into an emotional and memorable event, not to be missed by anyone!"
HR Audio, 17-10-2016

"And to have Sanderling conduct it was memorable as he could provide musical insights only somebody who knew the composer personally can provide."
EOS Classical News Australia, 17-10-2016

"But Roth is also a first-rate exponent, and his performances of Harry Glickman’s arrangements of Shostakovich’s Three Fantastic Dances – sounding a good deal more leisurely than the piano originals – are also well worth hearing."
Gramophone, 01-9-2016

Linus Roth recently attracted attention with a dazzling CD (on Challenge Classics) with compositions for solo violin of Shostakovich's pupil Weinberg, alternated with short work of the teacher.
Luister