There are a number of reasons why anyone who loves Beethoven's Violin Concerto would want to hear this recording by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Most importantly, Kopatchinskaja is one heck of a violinist. She has a fabulous technique that covers everything from triple stops to sixty-fourth note runs to legato lines that go on and on and on. She's got a scrumptious tone that encompasses everything from the purely lyrical to the warmly sensual. And she's got enormous musicality that suffuses everything with the kind of ...
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There are a number of reasons why anyone who loves Beethoven's Violin Concerto would want to hear this recording by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Most importantly, Kopatchinskaja is one heck of a violinist. She has a fabulous technique that covers everything from triple stops to sixty-fourth note runs to legato lines that go on and on and on. She's got a scrumptious tone that encompasses everything from the purely lyrical to the warmly sensual. And she's got enormous musicality that suffuses everything with the kind of effortlessly commanding mastery that Kreisler was so good at projecting. Kopatchinskaja delivers a performance of unmatched and unfeigned freshness. She sounds like she's rethought the whole piece, and her interpretation challenges listeners to keep up. Another reason is that Kopatchinskaja also uses her own adaptations of the cadenzas Beethoven wrote for the violin concerto when he later recast it as a piano concerto. She not only dispenses with the aging Kreisler cadenza, but adds...
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