Bartok: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Viola Concerto - Ehnes, Noseda, BBC Philharmonic (2011)
Bartok: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Viola Concerto - Ehnes, Noseda, BBC Philharmonic (2011)
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Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog Number: 10690
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Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog Number: 10690
Hailed as ‘the Jascha Heifetz of our day’ (The Globe and Mail, Canada), the violinist James Ehnes is widely considered one of the most dynamic and exciting performers in classical music, appearing regularly with the world’s finest orchestras and conductors. Accompanied here by the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda, Ehnes is the soloist in Bartók’s two violin concertos in which he plays the ‘Marsick’ Stradivarius of 1715, as well as in the viola concerto, performing on the ‘Rolla’ Giuseppe Guadagnini viola of 1793, on loan from the Fulton Collection.
James Ehnes said of this disc: ‘These three concertos are among the most striking examples of Bartók’s early, middle, and late periods, each showing a very different side of one of the great musical voices of all time; they are among my very favourite pieces to perform’.
Bartók wrote his first concerto for violin in 1908 for the young violinist Stefi Geyer, to whom he was romantically attached at the time, which explains the warm feelings expressed in the first movement; though the relationship ended shortly after the work’s completion, Bartók and Geyer remained on friendly terms. The composer shelved the concerto, which remained in Geyer’s possession, unperformed until two years after her death, nearly fifty years after it was written.
Violin Concerto No. 2 was commissioned by the Hungarian violinist Zoltán Székely almost thirty years after the first concerto was completed. Bartók at the time would have preferred to write an extended set of variations, but Székely maintained that, seeing as he was paying for the work, he should get what he asked for. Bartók reluctantly agreed – but later pointed out that he had had his way after all, seeing as the central movement is in variation form, and the finale works with variations of themes from the first movement.
The Viola Concerto is among the last pieces on which Bartók worked. Existing only in the form of extended sketches at the time of his death in September 1945, the work was completed by the violist and composer Tibor Serly, a fellow Hungarian and close friend of Bartók’s. Compared to earlier works by Bartók, the concerto is harmonically restrained with a melancholy quality that was always evident in his music, but which intensified in his late years.
Composer: Béla Bartók
Performer: James Ehnes
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Reviews: What pushes this release over the top is the brilliant fiddling of James Ehnes, combined with the incredibly intelligent idea of putting all of Bartók's string concertos together on a single disc. Ehnes, for his part, is just as comfortable on the viola as he is on the violin. He digs into the rustic Hungarian melodies in the finale of the Viola Concerto or the beginning of the Violin Concerto No. 2 with a richly resonant gusto that never turns crude, while at the same time his impeccable intonation gives the slithery chromatics of the First concerto real shape and direction. He's a phenomenal artist, make no mistake. Gianandrea Noseda's accompaniments are very good–bracing and very well paced. As so often from these forces, however, the orchestra is a touch bland–never less than proficient, most of the time a good bit more than that, but also not as arresting and colorful as it could be. Still, as I said, the quality of Ehnes' playing and the value of the program earn this disc a top recommendation. Anything less would be churlish.
a performance that, throughout, is ear-catchingly alert to the music’s range of tonal shading, its abrupt switches of pace and mood, its powerful bravura and its pungent lyricism…this whole disc…gives a remarkable insight into Bartók’s compositional individuality in performances of captivating artistry
Tracklisting:
1. Concerto for Violin no 2, Sz 112 by Béla Bartók
Performer: James Ehnes (Violin)
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1937-1938; Budapest, Hungary
2. Concerto for Violin no 1, Sz 36 by Béla Bartók
Performer: James Ehnes (Violin)
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1907-1908; Budapest, Hungary
3. Concerto for Viola, Sz 120 by Béla Bartók
Performer: James Ehnes (Viola)
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1945; USA
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