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Lydia Mordkovitch, Neeme Järvi, London Symphony Orchestra - Brahms: Double Concerto; Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 (1989)

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Lydia Mordkovitch, Neeme Järvi, London Symphony Orchestra - Brahms: Double Concerto; Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 (1989)

Lydia Mordkovitch, Neeme Järvi, London Symphony Orchestra - Brahms: Double Concerto; Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 256 Mb | Total time: 58:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 8868 | Recorded: 1988

Mordkovitch and Wallfisch play with a good deal of spirit and poetry in the Double Concerto and the recording captures their attractive quality of tone very effectively, since they are placed at a reasonable distance from their microphones. The LSO is set a little too far back in the sound picture, and in a slightly cavernous acoustic which may exaggerate the impression of a slightly lacklustre routine orchestral contribution under Järvi.

Lydia Mordkovitch, Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra - Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No.3, Symphony No.1 (2000)

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Lydia Mordkovitch, Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra - Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No.3, Symphony No.1 (2000)

Lydia Mordkovitch, Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra - Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No.3, Symphony No.1 (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 327 Mb | Total time: 72:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9784 | Recorded: 1998

Richard Hickox continues his excellent Bruch cycle with warm-hearted and forceful readings of the First Symphony and the Third Violin Concerto. Compared with Masur's slightly ramshackle Leipzig performance, Hickox and the LSO provide an extremely fresh sounding performance of the First Symphony. Many opening horn calls and some delightful woodwind solos add to the charm of a work, which should have a firmer hold on the orchestral repertoire. As regards tempi, Hickox is akin to James Conlon and his expansive Cologne performance (EMI) but Chandos' bloom depicts some wonderful playing from the LSO especially in the irresistible Allegro guerriero.

Lydia Mordkovitch, RSNO, Neeme Jarvi - Taneyev: Suite de Concert; Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Russian Themes (2008)

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Lydia Mordkovitch, RSNO, Neeme Jarvi - Taneyev: Suite de Concert; Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Russian Themes (2008)

Sergei Taneyev: Suite de Concert; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Russian Themes (2008)
Lydia Mordkovitch, violin; Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Neeme Järvi

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 268 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 151 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10491 | Time: 01:04:52

Lydia Mordkovitch and the then Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi were a celebrated team in the 1980s, recording many notable Russian works, including the concertos by Khachaturian, Prokofiev and Shostakovich for Chandos, and winning a Gramophone Award. This ‘team’ has recently re-assembled to record little-known concertante works by Taneyev and Rimsky Korsakov. The unusual coupling of works by Taneyev and Rimsky-Korsakov, two great composer friends, neatly symbolises the era of the last decades of nineteenth-century Russia, with its great conservatories in Moscow and St Petersburg exerting enormous influence on the music of the country at the time.

Poeme - The Artistry of Lydia Mordkovitch (2015)

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Poeme - The Artistry of Lydia Mordkovitch (2015)

Poème - The Artistry of Lydia Mordkovitch (2015)
Anton Rubinstein - Richard Wagner - Serge Rachmaninoff - Antonin Dvorak - Edward Elgar
Dmitry Shostakovich - William Kroll - Alan Ridout - Maurice Ravel - Ernest Chausson
Lydia Mordkovitch, violin; Marina Gusak-Grin, piano; Gabriel Woolf, narrator
Julian Milford, piano; Clifford Benson, piano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 323 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 179 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN10866X | Time: 01:17:10

This recording is a re-issue of the romantic chamber music recording that Lydia Mordkovitch made in 1989 with the pianist Marina Gusak-Grin. It featured pieces for violin by such famous composers as Wagner, Rachmaninoff, and Chausson, neither of whom played the violin or favoured it as a solo instrument. If there were any doubts about the lyrical potential of the violin, however, this would be an album to confirm its true status as the poet among instruments. The prime example is Chausson’s Poème – a title applied to the whole collection, as the other pieces make the same point. Two pieces complement this recording: the one movement sonata of 1897 (the Sonate posthume) by Ravel, which was both his first chamber work and his first attempt at sonata form, and Sospiri, Op. 70, Elgar’s last short piece for violin and piano. These pieces were recorded in 1989 and 1996, respectively.

Lydia Mordkovitch, Emma Young, Clifford Benson - Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alfred Schnittke: Violin Sonatas (1991)

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Lydia Mordkovitch, Emma Young, Clifford Benson - Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alfred Schnittke: Violin Sonatas (1991)

Sergey Prokofiev: Sonata in D, Op. 115 & Sonata in C, Op. 56;
Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Sonata, Op. 134;
Alfred Schnittke: Praeludium D. Shostakovich
Lydia Mordkovitch, violin; Emma Young, violin; Clifford Benson, piano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 253 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 147 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 8988 | Time: 01:02:00

Recordings such as this superb one serve to remind us that though we may think we know the output of the major composers, there are still treasures to be discovered. Works for individual instruments find their way into recital programs but often lie in shadow of the 'big works' for the concert.

Lydia Mordkovitch, London SO, Richard Hickox - Max Bruch: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 (2015)

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Lydia Mordkovitch, London SO, Richard Hickox - Max Bruch: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 (2015)

Max Bruch - Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 (2015)
Lydia Mordkovitch, violin; London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Hickox

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 318 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 147 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10865X | Time: 01:10:50

As part of Chandos Tribute to Lydia Mordkovitch, this re-issue features Bruch’s Violin Concertos Nos 2 and 3 performed by Lydia Mordkovitch with Richard Hickox and the London Symphony Orchestra. Both were recorded in 1998 in Blackheath Halls in London.