Septet for strings & woodwinds in E flat major, Op. 20
National Airs (6) with variations for flute/violin & piano, Op. 105: No. 3: Air Autrichien "A Schüsserl und a Reindl" Tema. Andantino - Var. I-VI
National Airs (10) with variations for flute/violin & piano, Op. 107: No. 1: Air Tirolien "I Bin a Tiroler Bua" Tema. Moderato - Var. I - IV
National Airs (10) with variations for flute/violin & piano, Op. 107: No. 2: Air Écossais "Bonny Laddie, Highland Laddie" Tema. Allegretto, Quasi Vivace - Var. I - IV
Septet for strings & woodwinds in E flat major, Op. 20
National Airs (6) with variations for flute/violin & piano, Op. 105: No. 3: Air Autrichien "A Schüsserl und a Reindl" Tema. Andantino - Var. I-VI
National Airs (10) with variations for flute/violin & piano, Op. 107: No. 1: Air Tirolien "I Bin a Tiroler Bua" Tema. Moderato - Var. I - IV
National Airs (10) with variations for flute/violin & piano, Op. 107: No. 2: Air Écossais "Bonny Laddie, Highland Laddie" Tema. Allegretto, Quasi Vivace - Var. I - IV
National Airs (10) with variations for flute/violin & piano, Op. 107: No. 6: Air Écossais "Peggy's Daughter" Tema. Andante Comodo - Var. I - IV
National Airs (10) with variations for flute/violin & piano, Op. 107: No. 7: Air Russe "Schöne Minka" Tema. Andante - Var. I - VI
Versatile as a concert soloist, conductor, and chamber musician, violinist Leonidas Kavakos has drawn on his varied and abundant talents for this all-Beethoven double-disc from Sony Classical. It's quite common for concerto recordings to include several short pieces at the end of a program to take up the remaining running time, but because the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 occupies the entire first CD, Kavakos devotes the second disc to pieces that can hardly be called filler, the Septet in E flat major, Op. 20, and ...
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Versatile as a concert soloist, conductor, and chamber musician, violinist Leonidas Kavakos has drawn on his varied and abundant talents for this all-Beethoven double-disc from Sony Classical. It's quite common for concerto recordings to include several short pieces at the end of a program to take up the remaining running time, but because the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 occupies the entire first CD, Kavakos devotes the second disc to pieces that can hardly be called filler, the Septet in E flat major, Op. 20, and two works for violin and piano. This balances the program nicely and gives added value to the listener, but also provides insights to Kavakos' approaches to different genres and his changing roles: as a virtuoso who confidently plays his own variants of Beethoven's cadenzas; a conductor who leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with control and deep expressivity; a colleague among similarly gifted chamber musicians; and a fully engaged collaborator with pianist Enrico Pace. One...
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