Liza Ferschtman
Violin Concerto, Op. 35 | Serenade after Plato’s “Symposium”
- Type SACD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917275520
- Catalog number CC 72755
- Release date 02 February 2018
About the album
Korngold’s Violin Concerto was completed in 1945. This is a beautiful, late Romantic work that harks back clearly to Korngold's earlier compositional style, when he was a younger man living in Vienna. But had he really turned his back on film music he was used to compose in America? Every movement of the Concerto is scattered with fragments from a range of his film scores. The Violin Concerto was a huge success at its premiere, not least due to the performance by Jascha Heifetz as soloist.
The 1950s, a period when Korngold's career and indeed his life were drawing to a close, were a most productive time for Leonard Bernstein. He was achieving major successes on Broadway with his musicals.
The Serenade for violin, strings, harp and percussion had its premiere in Venice in 1954. There were two factors behind the composition. He had accepted a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation. Also, he had long been promising a new piece for his close friend, the violinist Isaac Stern. Both of these commitments coincided in the Serenade, an extremely lyrical, five-movement work, akin to a violin concerto.
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11Violin Concerto, Op. 35 Moderato nobile
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12Violin Concerto, Op. 35 Romanze
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13Violin Concerto, Op. 35 Allegro assai vivace
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14Serenade after Plato?s ?Symposium? I. Phaedrus: Pausanias (lento and allegro)
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15Serenade after Plato?s ?Symposium? II. Aristophanes (allegretto)
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16Serenade after Plato?s ?Symposium? III. Eryximachus (presto)
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17Serenade after Plato?s ?Symposium? IV. Agathon (adagio)
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18Serenade after Plato?s ?Symposium? V. Socrates: Alcibiades (molto tenuto and allegro molto vivace)
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Liza Ferschtman in concert!
15-09-2016
Liza Ferschtman in a concert this weekend on a baroque violin for the first time (!) together with Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir at the Bachfestival Dordrecht, September 17th in the Augustijnenkerk