BaL 9.04.11 - Beethoven: Violin Concerto

[EdgeleyRob]

Only one version here,Schneiderhan/Jochum/BPO.

[Bryn]

Only one version here,Schneiderhan/Jochum/BPO.

Until the Zehetmair/O18C/Brüggen came along, that was my favourite, too.

[Mahler's3rd]

A Recent Recording worthy of note in such esteemed company is this one I reckon
Janine Jansen, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi

[Stanfordian]

Schneiderhan/Berliner Philharmoniker/Jochum

[pastoralguy]

I've just heard a wonderful new recording fron Antje Weithaas. The conductor is someone called Steven Sloane.

The cd isn't released until January but, having pre-ordered it, I got a MP3 download on my iPad.

Superb performance. Recommended.

[BBMmk2]

Schneiderhan/Berliner Philharmoniker/Jochum

Thank you Stan! I love this one as well, and think it's the one to have!

[carol_fodor]

Just as a 'matter of interest' has anybody here actually managed to listen to the Beethoven V.C. as recorded by Richard Tognetti with the ACO?
It's available on the Naxos Music Library ( I'm not sure about 'spotify' as I don't do that).
In my opinion Tognetti knocks spots off ( sheer technique, musicality, etc) the other HIPP versions who include Huggett/ OAE and Chase / Hannover Band.
If you really, really and truly 'have to have' gut strings, low pitch, 'old instruments' etc, then this is THE one to have, IMHO.

[Andrew Preview]

A Recent Recording worthy of note in such esteemed company is this one I reckon
Janine Jansen, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi

I like this performance a lot, although I think I marginally prefer Lisa Batiashvili with the same orchestra. Jansen benefits from more polished accompaniment, and her playing is appealingly fresh, but Batiashvili is interpretatively just as good while having a more appealingly warm tone. If she gets her wish to record it again with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the results could be breathtaking.

In the meantime, while Perlman/Giulini are very good in a more traditional vein (as are Grumiaux/Davis), following the rules of the thread, my single performance to live with would be Hilary Hahn. The Baltimore orchestra under Zinman is a bit too smooth to be ideal for me, but I still find it's the performance I return to most often.

[Barbirollians]

I like this performance a lot, although I think I marginally prefer Lisa Batiashvili with the same orchestra. Jansen benefits from more polished accompaniment, and her playing is appealingly fresh, but Batiashvili is interpretatively just as good while having a more appealingly warm tone. If she gets her wish to record it again with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the results could be breathtaking.

In the meantime, while Perlman/Giulini are very good in a more traditional vein (as are Grumiaux/Davis), following the rules of the thread, my single performance to live with would be Hilary Hahn. The Baltimore orchestra under Zinman is a bit too smooth to be ideal for me, but I still find it's the performance I return to most often.

I hope if Batiashvili records it again she does so with a conductor preferably osmo vanska

[Barbirollians]

Although I have not quite caught up with pastoralguy I have added two more in the last few weeks. A gloriously measured yet superbly played and accompanied performance from Joseph Suk and Boult for 24p . Those Prihoda cadenzas are really interesting.

Additionally, the fizzingly characterful and very different Kogan/Silvestri . Silvestri certainly sounds far more engaged than in his Rolls Royce smooth performance with Menuhin and the VPO.

[Dave2002]

I've just heard a wonderful new recording fron Antje Weithaas. The conductor is someone called Steven Sloane.

The cd isn't released until January but, having pre-ordered it, I got a MP3 download on my iPad.

Superb performance. Recommended.

This one has an interesting cadenza in the first movement, with timpani accompaniment. There are a few others which are similar, though I didn't recognise this cadenza as one I'd heard before. I think the Schneiderhan recording also has a cadenza with timpani accompaniment.

[Tony Halstead]

Beethoven himself wrote a cadenza with timpani, for his own piano arrangement of the Violin Concerto.
I seem to remember playing on a DG recording of it with Barenboim over 40 years ago.

[Tony Halstead]

Just as a 'matter of interest' has anybody here actually managed to listen to the Beethoven V.C. as recorded by Richard Tognetti with the ACO?
It's available on the Naxos Music Library ( I'm not sure about 'spotify' as I don't do that).
In my opinion Tognetti knocks spots off ( sheer technique, musicality, etc) the other HIPP versions who include Huggett/ OAE and Chase / Hannover Band.
If you really, really and truly 'have to have' gut strings, low pitch, 'old instruments' etc, then this is THE one to have, IMHO.

You've obviously never heard this superb, transcendental performance, then?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0j6pJ8JNOw

By the way, the 'Hannover Band' is not a German ensemble, it's a UK period-instrument orchestra that performs music from the Hanoverian period ( largely), hence the name 'Hanover Band' ( only one 'n'). I've never understood why it has to be a 'band' rather than an 'orchestra', though!

[MickyD]

Maybe "band" was a popular 18th century term for "orchestra", Tony? Just guessing. Whatever, I cherish their recordings, particularly those done for Nimbus.

[Parry1912]

Didn't James Galway refer to the Berlin Phil as "Herbie's Band"?