Bach: Violin Concertos; Gubaidulina: In tempus praesens
Compact Disc
Deutsche Grammophon
October 07, 2008
October 07, 2008
Find it in: Multimedia Department - Classical Music - Composer/ Concerto/ Strings (A03)
About this edition:
UPC: 028947780441
BINC: 9722718
Catalog No. 0012054
About the CD:
From All Music Guide: Recording place:Hamburg-Harburg, Friedrich-Ebert-Halle
London, AIR Studios, Lyndhurst Hall
Two years before the release of this disc, German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter told Musical America she intended to stop performing "when I reach my 45th birthday," that is, in June 2008. Shortly afterwards, however, she told the Washington Post she'd been "misinterpreted," and that she intended to keep playing as long as she could "bring anything new, anything important, anything different to music."
The question, of course, is: has she? Let us take this 2008 Deutsche Grammophon disc as a measure. Half the repertoire is extremely familiar -- Bach's solo violin concertos in A minor and E major -- and half is totally unfamiliar -- Sofia Gubaidulina's concerto for violin and orchestra called In tempus prasens. Mutter had recorded Bach's concertos 25 years earlier with Salvatore Accardo and the English Chamber Orchestra. Those performances were lovely and lyrical, but plain vanilla readings; t...
Track list
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| 1. Concerto for violin, strings & continuo No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041: 1. (Allegro moderato) | Listen | Listen |
| 2. Concerto for violin, strings & continuo No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041: 2. Andante | n/a | n/a |
| 3. Concerto for violin, strings & continuo No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041: 3. Allegro assai | n/a | n/a |
| 4. Concerto for violin, strings & continuo No. 2 in E major, BWV 1042: 1. Allegro | Listen | Listen |
| 5. Concerto for violin, strings & continuo No. 2 in E major, BWV 1042: 2. Adagio | n/a | n/a |
| 6. Concerto for violin, strings & continuo No. 2 in E major, BWV 1042: 3. Allegro assai | n/a | n/a |
| 7. In tempus praesens, concerto for violin & orchestra | Listen | Listen |
Complete contributor listing
Performer:
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Composers:
Johann Sebastian Bach, Sofia Gubaidulina
Conductors:
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Valery Gergiev
Ensembles:
London Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Soloists
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