Composer: John Adams, Roy Harris
Performer: Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Andrew Litton
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Signum
Catalogue: SIGCD468
Release: 2016
Size: 1.17 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Harris: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
01. I. First Movement
02. II. Second Movement
03. III. Third Movement
04. IV. Fourth Movement
Adams: Violin Concerto
05. I. First Movement
06. II. Chaconne “Body Through Which the Dream Flows”
07. III. Toccare
Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen continues her series of concerto recordings on Signum with two contrasting works by American composers.
Already considered by many to be a modern classic, John Adams 1993 Violin Concerto was described by the composer as having a ‘hypermelody’, in which the soloist plays longs phrases without stop for the duration of the 35 minute piece. Although composed in 1949, the first performance of Roy Harris’s Violin Concerto didn’t occur until 1984. Since then it has been championed for its “luminous orchestration and exalted tone”.
For this recording Tamsin Waley-Cohen is joined by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under American conductor Andrew Litton.