A win for Vilde Frang.
BaL 06.07.24 - Korngold: Violin concerto
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The website is rather strange at present.
The playlist currently has this as the last item:
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan.- WARNER.
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Dreadful review! All the recordings made in 20th century he dismisses with just a passing reference to Heifetz masterpiece with a comment about the fact it's an old recording from 1953. Well guess what Mr Mival it's not about the date of recording it's the quality of performance that matters .
"Perfection is not attainable,but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence"
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Originally posted by mikealdren View PostHaven't listened yet but I have Frang, Haveron, Heifetz, Perlman and Shaham. All a\re well played but the Heifetz is incomparable with Frang a very good modern 2nd best."Perfection is not attainable,but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence"
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Originally posted by oliver sudden View PostI heard this live recently, with Hilary Hahn playing the absolute living daylights out of it. Alas like many of the posters above I couldn’t for the life of me warm to the piece! A shame since I remember loving the violin sonata last time I heard it.
Although the DVD appears to no longer be available, I think the performance is on Youtube."I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
Lady Bracknell The importance of Being Earnest
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Originally posted by richardfinegold View PostI’m gathering that Gluzman wasn’t mentioned.
This is one of the few violin concertos I love, and have done since the Shaham/Previn recording came out (which I bought because of the Barber coupling, which I’d loved for years before that). That performance of the Korngold really stands up and I’ve added the Heifetz and the Schmid/VPO.
However I haven’t really kept up with more recent issues and for that reason, unlike others here, I was glad of the emphasis of this review and the chance to compare more recent recordings.
Skride, Frang, Goulding and Haveron are all going to get a proper listen here.
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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