Composer: Benjamin Britten, Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Performer: Vilde Frang
Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: James Gaffigan
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 2564600921
Release: 2016
Size: 596 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
01. I. Moderato nobile
02. II. Romanze
03. IIII. Allegro assai vivace
Britten: Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 15
04. I. Moderato con moto – Agitato – Tempo primo –
05. II. Vivace – Animando – Largamente – Cadenza
06. III. Passacaglia – Andante lento (Un poco meno mosso)
Both concertos on this new disc were written when their composers were in the USA around the time of World War II: the Korngold was completed in 1945, the Britten in 1939. In the course of the 1930s Korngold, an Austrian Jew, had become a prominent Hollywood composer, but could not return to his homeland after 1938; the young Britten, a pacifist, left the UK for New York shortly before the declaration of war in 1939. Both composers had been child prodigies and both concertos are centred around the key of D, the most ‘natural’ key on the violin and the tonal focus for the violin concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky