What immediately strikes the potential buyer about this British release is the unusual program: the Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47, of Jean Sibelius is paired not with Tchaikovsky or Beethoven or any of its other usual partners, but with the Violin Concerto "Concentric Paths" by Thomas Adès, a work that has been recorded only once before. Rising German-Italian violinist Augustin Hadelich addresses the question in his own notes, writing that "CD programs that I like the most are ones where the pieces are connected, but ...
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What immediately strikes the potential buyer about this British release is the unusual program: the Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47, of Jean Sibelius is paired not with Tchaikovsky or Beethoven or any of its other usual partners, but with the Violin Concerto "Concentric Paths" by Thomas Adès, a work that has been recorded only once before. Rising German-Italian violinist Augustin Hadelich addresses the question in his own notes, writing that "CD programs that I like the most are ones where the pieces are connected, but in a subtle way." The connections here involve the "deep, rumbling timpani and low winds in the Sibelius concerto" and its rhythmically oriented qualities (exemplified, perhaps, in the famed foot-tapping syncopations of the finale), which Hadelich finds reflected in the registral extremes and driving rhythms of the Adès. The listener will have to decide how well this works. Both works make substantial demands on both soloist and orchestra. The Adès is of a different weight from the...
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