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For the Record, Op. 373: Nemanja Radulovic, Gil Shaham, Tabea Zimmermann
Welcome to "For the Record," Violinist.com's weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists and other classical musicians. We hope it helps you keep track of your favorite artists, as well as find some new ones to add to your listening! Click on the highlighted links to obtain each album or learn more about the artists.
Violinist Nemanja Radulovic. Photo by Ana-Marija Ršumovic.
Prokofiev
Nemanja Radulovic, violin
Philharmonia Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conducting
"There is something wondrous in the music of Sergei Prokofiev, as if it constantly moves between light and shadow, searching for truth through contrast, sarcasm, magic, love, irony, and beauty," said Serbian-French violinist Nemanja Radulovic. His new release is devoted entirely to Prokofiev’s music, including the Second Violin Concerto and examples of Prokofiev’s chamber music, including the Sonata for Solo Violin, Sonata for Two Violins, recorded with Johan Dalene, and Five Melodies for Violin and Piano, recoded with pianist Laure Favre-Kahn. Radulovic and Favre-Kahn team up once again for violin-and-piano arrangements of Prokofiev's ballets Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, and Chout; his opera The Love for Three Oranges; and his "Classical" Symphony. The program concludes with the "Grand Waltz" from Cinderella, featuring the ensemble Les Trilles du Diable. BELOW: "Mercutio" from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.
Coleridge-Taylor, Dvorak, Stewart
Gil Shaham, violin
Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Eric Jacobsen conducting
This album brings together Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 80, Antonín Dvorák’s Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53, and the world-premiere recording of "F. Harper," from The Famous People by composer and violinist Curtis Stewart. Spanning more than a century of musical thought, the program explores the violin concerto as a medium for cultural identity, historical reflection, and expressive continuity. Though emerging from distinct backgrounds, Coleridge-Taylor and Dvorák shared a commitment to integrating folk traditions and national character into large-scale concert works. Stewart’s contemporary work carries this lineage forward, reflecting on naming, ancestry, and the reclamation of history. BELOW: the third movement "Allegro molto - Moderato" from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto in G minor, Op.80.
Brahms Trio Op. 114; Robert & Clara Schumann: Romances
Tabea Zimmermann, viola
Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello
Javier Perianes, piano
The empathy between Robert and Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim and Johannes Brahms engendered one of Romanticism’s most fruitful artistic friendships. With the aim of mining the precious jewels of that unique intimacy, three great artists have devised a program in the form of a poetic conversation; here chamber music once more becomes shared human emotion in its purest expression. BELOW: first-movement "Allegro" from Brahms' Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114 (Version for Viola, Cello and Piano).
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You might also like:
- For the Record, Op. 372: Midori, Pekka Kuusisto, Daniel Lozakovich
- For the Record, Op. 371: Alena Baeva, Isabelle Faust, Turtle Island Quartet, Alberto Bologni, Anzû Quartet
- For the Record, Op. 370: Leila Schayegh, Esther Yoo, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Maiani da Silva
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