Francesca Dego: Brahms & Busoni: Violin Concertos – SUPER-AUDIO CD

Title: Brahms & Busoni: Violin Concertos
Artist: Francesca Dego
Label: Chandos
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 095115533321
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2024-03-01
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD

The celebrated violinist Francesca Dego is joined by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and her regular collaborator Dalia Stasevska for this recording of the violin concertos by Brahms and Busoni. A cornerstone of the repertoire, Brahms’s Concerto dates from 1878, a year after the Second Symphony, and was composed for (and dedicated to) the virtuoso Joseph Joachim. The Concerto takes the standard three-movement form, and as in Beethoven’s Concerto (considered by many as Brahms’s inspiration for the work) the first movement is significant in it’s length and it’s complexity. Busoni’s Violin Concerto in it’s turn is inspired by both Brahms and Beethoven, and like both previous works it is in the key of D major. Premièred in Berlin in 1897 by the Dutch violinist Henri Petri, the Concerto is dazzlingly virtuosic. Francesca Dego writes: ‘To be able to record Brahms’s Violin Concerto is a dream and a milestone for every violinist and I feel that with “my” Brahms I do not want to compete with the many gorgeous versions out there but instead to declare my own love and history with my favourite violin concerto. Busoni’s Concerto, however, is a rarely performed work, brought to the studio only a handful of times. It represents a different kind of responsibility, one that pushed me to want to rediscover every detail of this music as if it had never been played before.’

Tracks:
1.1 Concerto, Op. 35a, K243 in D major for Violin and Orchestra~Allegro moderato – Animando – Tranquillo – Più moderato – Allegro – Quasi adagio – Tempo I – Gemessen, mit Humor – Scherzoso – Animando –
1.2 Concerto, Op. 35a, K243 in D major for Violin and Orchestra~Quasi andante – Poco agitato – Tempo I – Più lento – Tranquillo –
1.3 Concerto, Op. 35a, K243 in D major for Violin and Orchestra~Allegro impetuoso – Tempo – (Schnell) – (Heflig) – Moderato – Alla Marcia, pomposo umoristico – Stringendo – Più stretto – Quasi presto – Più presto
1.4 Concerto, Op. 77 in D major for Violin with Orchestral Accompaniment~Allegro non troppo – Tranquillo – A tempo – Cadenza – Tranquillo – Animato
1.5 Concerto, Op. 77 in D major for Violin with Orchestral Accompaniment~Adagio – Poco a poco più largamente – Tempo I
1.6 Concerto, Op. 77 in D major for Violin with Orchestral Accompaniment~Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace – Poco più presto