Magazine It covers new album reviews, as well as in-depth guides and classical music news.All of The Classic Review’s covered albums are available for purchase on our Amazon store:Get our periodic classical music newsletter with our recent reviews, news and beginners guides.All rights reserved. The brass, while possessing a pleasant sound, don’t quite elevate sufficiently out of the rich string textures in the climactic moments.Benedetti brims with confidence throughout the final movement, in a self-assured and highly virtuosic reading. 9 Reviews Enter your email address below A dynamic personal interpretation, refreshing and convincing LONDON, UK (April 9, 2020) — GRAMMY® Award-winning Nicola Benedetti’s new album on Decca Classics explores music by Britain’s best-loved composer, Edward Elgar.The centerpiece is his vast Violin Concerto … Sign in to manage your newsletter preferences Where there are subtleties of tempo change, Jurowski clearly follows Benedetti, who is very clearly in the driving seat.

61 . 61 coupled with three short works for violin and piano: Salut d’Amour, Sospiri and Chanson de Nuit. Nicola Benedetti’s new Elgar album, released digitally worldwide on 15 May 2020, features his vast Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. By entering your details, you are agreeing to Classical Music Nicola Benedetti: Elgar Violin Concerto . Petr Limonov, piano.

The album will be released digitally worldwide on 15 May 2020. Technically, the passages of running semi-quavers are executed with precision, showcasing the evenness and warmth of tone Benedetti can generate across the entire range of the instrument. Full-throttle, sinuous, subtle and electric

Nicola Benedetti (violin), Petr Limonov (piano); LPO/Vladimir Jurowski (Decca)Elgar’s Violin Concerto has a reputation as one of his most openly yet intimately expressive works. It’s a pity that with ‘Sospiri’ they appear so in thrall to the special magic of the celebrated strings and harp version that they attempt – with predictably disappointing results – to replicate that version’s rapt quality, rather than showcase its song-like lyricism as they do successfully with the other two pieces. Buy CD or download online. © 2018 Universal Music Australia Pty Limited | 02 4782 9697 | sales@classicsdirect.com.au

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For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. 61, is a difficult work both technically and interpretively, and although it has been popular on recordings since the first one appeared in 1929, it is not exactly a crowd-pleaser; Benedetti scores here with a reading that steers a middle path between some well-established approaches. Marked “Andante”, Benedetti comes in at almost one and a half-minutes under Menuhin and almost two minutes under Nigel Kennedy, who is one of the broadest.Benedetti is more straightforward, with a strident feel that brings a range of different colors and emotions. Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. The centerpiece is his Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. Benedetti and Jurowski bring something more emotionally restrained, and the conductor and the orchestra except more heartedly the accompanists role, letting Benedetti shine. Elgar’s Violin Concerto has a reputation as one of his most openly yet intimately expressive works. Such expressiveness is not altogether denied here but, it seems to me, is rather generalised rather than allowed to make its specific and sentient points.Benedetti is joined by pianist Petr Limonov for the salon pieces which make up the rest of this disc.

Allegro (17.28) Andante (11.36) Allegro molto (18.42) Elgar Sospiri, Op.

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