Britten & Bruch - Violin Concertos
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Label: Alpha
Cat No: ALPHA946
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 5th May 2023
Contents
Artists
Kerson Leong (violin)Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor
Patrick HahnWorks
Violin Concerto in D minor, op.15In Memoriam, Op.65
Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor, op.26
Artists
Kerson Leong (violin)Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor
Patrick HahnAbout
“The Britten expresses a raw and exposed experience, while the Bruch is comforting and uplifting. After the last few years in which the world has experienced much difficulty and uncertainty due to pandemic, war, and crisis, recording this album in London in January 2021 with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Patrick Hahn was a profoundly cathartic moment. It is in the spirit of catharsis that I offer this album.” – Kerson Leong
Sound/Video
Reviews
Kerson Leong’s splendid account of the Bruch comes hot on the heels of Randall Goosby’s no less committed reading with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra. But there are notable differences in tone which might loosely be summed up by saying that Leong’s take on the piece is more outgoing in expression. ... But it is the coupling of the Britten Violin Concerto (gratifyingly becoming more and more core repertoire these days) which, like Goosby’s Florence Price, sets this disc apart. ... With outstanding collaboration from Patrick Hahn and the Philharmonia Orchestra I can’t recall a better account of the piece than this. Edward Seckerson
Bruch’s First Violin Concerto is a banker that is hard to go wrong with, although it’s a struggle to think of a lovelier and more romanticised reading of the slow movement than the one here from Kerson Leong, the Canadian violinist, with the sonorous Philharmonia rising to meet him.
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