Roslavets - Violin Concertos No.1 & No.2
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA67637
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 27th October 2008
Contents
Artists
Alina Ibragimova (violin)BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Ilan VolkovWorks
Violin Concerto no.1Violin Concerto no.2
Artists
Alina Ibragimova (violin)BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Ilan VolkovAbout
Roslavets’s Violin Concerto No.1 was thought to exist only in piano reduction form until 1989 when the full score was unearthed in the archives of the State Music Publishers in Moscow. It is an ambitious work, laid out on a large scale. Roslavets’s mastery of a leaner symphonic idiom, virtuosic and elegant, is immediately apparent. It ranks as one of the most important Russian works of its era.
Violin Concerto No.2 was completed in 1936 and was written shortly after the composer’s remarkable Chamber Symphony of 1934–5 (recorded on Hyperion CDA67484). Thus it belongs to the period following Roslavets’ return to Moscow from Uzbekistan, when he seems to have been trying to re-establish his reputation as a composer of substantial works, but after the notorious Pravda denunciations of Shostakovich and musical modernism in January 1936 he probably felt it stood little chance of performance. Since then it has remained in total obscurity until very recently, and these notes were heard for the first time in Glasgow’s City Hall in January 2008 - the performance on this disc is in fact the world premiere.
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