For a work that appears to be one of the most finely crafted violin concertos of the twentieth century and an easy favorite with audiences, the Miklós Rózsa Violin Concerto has been recorded surprisingly few times. The 1956 recording by Jascha Heifetz, to whom that work was dedicated, dominates the field even though violinists Robert McDuffie and onetime Heifetz student Igor Gruppman have also made respectable recordings of the work. With Naxos' Rózsa: Violin Concerto/Sinfonia Concertante, Russian-born, New York based ...
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For a work that appears to be one of the most finely crafted violin concertos of the twentieth century and an easy favorite with audiences, the Miklós Rózsa Violin Concerto has been recorded surprisingly few times. The 1956 recording by Jascha Heifetz, to whom that work was dedicated, dominates the field even though violinists Robert McDuffie and onetime Heifetz student Igor Gruppman have also made respectable recordings of the work. With Naxos' Rózsa: Violin Concerto/Sinfonia Concertante, Russian-born, New York based violinist Anastasia Khitruk decides it's her turn; she is joined by Dmitry Yablonsky and the Russian Philharmonic and cellist Andrey Tchekmazov in the obvious foil for the concerto, Rózsa's Sinfonia Concertante, written for Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky.These are, along with Korngold's Violin Concerto, among the small fraternity of great Hollywood concertos, stretching from Joseph Achron's First Violin Concerto in the 1930s to John Corigliano's The Red Violin; a little pocket of...
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