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"From Korngold’s Romantic patchwork to Britten’s high seriousness (and his obsessive working of scalic material) is quite a leap, yet, with these exponents, there’s no hint of the latter overreaching himself in this extended, bleakly eloquent take on the Prokofiev violin concerto model. Indeed, the argument is projected with such searing intensity that the work asserts its claim to be considered one of the masterpieces of the last century. Once again Frang proves immaculate above the stave; and, because the third-movement passacaglia never gets bogged down in the manner of Vengerov and Rostropovich or Little and Gardner, the sense of looming threat is ever present through to the equivocal close. While Marwood and Volkov make the whole concerto feel more contemporary, brisker from the outset, texturally spikier and more fractured than Lubotsky with Britten himself as conductor, there are other aesthetic possibilities. Whatever the work’s pockets of English reserve, Frang refuses to undersell those passionate outbursts fuelled by the composer’s political and moral convictions during and after the Spanish Civil War. This is a remarkable rendition, at once spacious and tautly held together, cool where it needs to be but eminently emotive with just the right kind of ‘perilous sweetness’. The soloist’s tone is never remotely wiry or frayed and the harmonics are simply sensational." Gramophone, 2016
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Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer - Vilde Frang, Violin, MainArtist - James Gaffigan, Conductor - HR-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Orchestra
© 2016 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company. A Warner Classics release, ℗ 2016 Vilde Frang under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Limited.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer - Vilde Frang, Violin, MainArtist - James Gaffigan, Conductor - HR-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Orchestra
© 2016 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company. A Warner Classics release, ℗ 2016 Vilde Frang under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Limited.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer - Vilde Frang, Violin, MainArtist - James Gaffigan, Conductor - HR-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Orchestra
© 2016 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company. A Warner Classics release, ℗ 2016 Vilde Frang under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Limited.
Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 15 (Benjamin Britten)
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Vilde Frang, Violin, MainArtist - James Gaffigan, Conductor - hr Sinfonieorchester, Orchestra
© 2016 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2016 Vilde Frang under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group company.
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Vilde Frang, Violin, MainArtist - James Gaffigan, Conductor - hr Sinfonieorchester, Orchestra
© 2016 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2016 Vilde Frang under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group company.
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Vilde Frang, Violin, MainArtist - James Gaffigan, Conductor - hr Sinfonieorchester, Orchestra
© 2016 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2016 Vilde Frang under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group company.
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"From Korngold’s Romantic patchwork to Britten’s high seriousness (and his obsessive working of scalic material) is quite a leap, yet, with these exponents, there’s no hint of the latter overreaching himself in this extended, bleakly eloquent take on the Prokofiev violin concerto model. Indeed, the argument is projected with such searing intensity that the work asserts its claim to be considered one of the masterpieces of the last century. Once again Frang proves immaculate above the stave; and, because the third-movement passacaglia never gets bogged down in the manner of Vengerov and Rostropovich or Little and Gardner, the sense of looming threat is ever present through to the equivocal close. While Marwood and Volkov make the whole concerto feel more contemporary, brisker from the outset, texturally spikier and more fractured than Lubotsky with Britten himself as conductor, there are other aesthetic possibilities. Whatever the work’s pockets of English reserve, Frang refuses to undersell those passionate outbursts fuelled by the composer’s political and moral convictions during and after the Spanish Civil War. This is a remarkable rendition, at once spacious and tautly held together, cool where it needs to be but eminently emotive with just the right kind of ‘perilous sweetness’. The soloist’s tone is never remotely wiry or frayed and the harmonics are simply sensational." Gramophone, 2016
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 6 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:07
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Vilde Frang
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Warner Classics
- Genre: Classical
© 2016 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2016 Vilde Frang under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company.
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