Isabelle van Keulen | NDR Radiophilharmonie
Violin Concerto No. 1 | Viola Concerto | The Lark Ascending
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917279320
- Catalog number CC 72793
- Release date 02 November 2018
About the album
Here is a disc whose contents seem odd as it couples the violin concerto of a (still) Russian composer to the viola concerto of an English one. Instead, the coupling is very clever since Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto, whose premiere was in 1923 (while the composer was still living in France, a few years before his return to Soviet Union) served as a much-admired model to Walton’s Viola Concerto, whose first performance was played by Paul Hindemith in 1929. The similarities between the two works go beyond the three-movements structure slow-quick-slow and concern themes, accompaniments and the rondo form of the virtuoso central Scherzo.
The smart idea of such unusual coupling came to one of the few great living violinists who can really play the viola with equal skill: Isabelle van Keulen. This glorious disc is crowned by the orchestrated version of Vaughan Williams’ masterpiece The Lark Ascending.
One of German radio best orchestras, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, is conducted by Andrew Manze (Prokofiev), Keri-Lynn Wilson (Walton) and Andrew Litton (Vaughan Williams).
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11Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 Andantino
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12Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 Scherzo: Vivacissimo
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13Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 Moderato ? Allegro moderato
09:06 -
14Viola Concerto Andante comodo
08:13 -
15Viola Concerto Vivo, con moto preciso
04:26 -
16Viola Concerto Allegro moderato
13:34 -
17The Lark Ascending
13:39
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