Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naive
Catalogue: V5174
Release: 2009
Size: 279 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
01. I. Allegro non troppo
02. II. Larghetto
03. III. Rondo. Allegro
04. Romance No.2 in F, Op.50
05. Romance No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra in G major, Op. 40
06. Violin Concerto in C Major, Woo 5 (Fragment)
Award-winning Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja presents a new vision of Beethoven’s complete works for violin and orchestra. She is accompanied by the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées under the direction of esteemed Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe.
The release offers us fresh insights into Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op.61 based on historical evidence, using period instruments. Kopatchinskaja contributes her own adaptations of Beethoven’s original cadenzas for the piano version of the concerto. The Romances are performed here in a simple, lyrical style typical of the slow movements of late 18th-century French violin concertos. Alongside the Concerto and the Romances, the recording features the rarely recorded Fragment: the only known part of an unfinished Concerto in C major.
Kopatchinskaja’s first CD on Naïve last year, a recital with Fazil Say, received sensational reviews and was awarded the Excellentia Award of the Magazine “Pizzicato” (Luxembourg), as well as the ECHO-Klassik award 2009. Earlier this year, she was heard performing Fazil Say’s colourful violin concerto, ‘1001 Nights in the Harem’, also on Naïve (V5147).