Berg - Violin Concerto

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Your favourite recordings, please

[greg]

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[springrite]

I LOVE Gitlis's recording of both the violin concerto as well as the chamber concerto (among the 8 or so recordings I have of each work).

[Todd]

Gitlis, Mutter, Ferras, and Hirsch all come to mind. 

[bhodges]

I think I have only Mutter's, which is a little worrisome since I love the piece.  Have to fix that...

But she has definite empathy for this particular concerto.  I just heard her do it live a few weeks ago, and she was terrific.

--Bruce

[Todd]

I think I have only Mutter's, which is a little worrisome since I love the piece.  Have to fix that...

Indeed you do, my good man, and post-haste!  (I suggest getting the Gitlis recording on Vox as it comes with a couple other good "modern" concertos at a nice price.)

[bhodges]

Thanks, Todd, I'll be glad to investigate that recording.  Having heard Christian Tetzlaff play it live several times, I wish he would record it, but I don't think he has, yet.

--Bruce

[Bunny]

I only have the Mutter recording, but I heard Leonidas Kavakos do the piece with Eschenbach and the Philadelphia SO, and brilliantly too.  I'm hoping he gets to record it, if not with Eschenbach, then with any of the other orchestras he's been performing with.

[Sergeant Rock]

I own Chung/Solti, Zukerman/Boulez, Szeryng/Kubelik, Wantanabe/Sinopoli and Mutter/Levine. They've all something to say about this great concerto but Mutter goes with me to the desert island.

Sarge

[dirkronk]

Thanks, Todd, I'll be glad to investigate that recording.  Having heard Christian Tetzlaff play it live several times, I wish he would record it, but I don't think he has, yet.

--Bruce

Bruce:
Don't know if you're into downloads, but this will take you to a live concert in which Tetzlaff plays the Berg.
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/OperaShare/message/27818

(It's a long "message"--look for concert #18)

FWIW...

Dirk

[Harry Collier]

I only have the Mutter recording, but I heard Leonidas Kavakos do the piece with Eschenbach and the Philadelphia SO, and brilliantly too.  I'm hoping he gets to record it, if not with Eschenbach, then with any of the other orchestras he's been performing with.

If you are ever desperate, I have an off-air recording of him playing the piece (25th August 2005 at the Proms in London). I am a great fan of Kavakos's playing.

[bhodges]

Bruce:
Don't know if you're into downloads, but this will take you to a live concert in which Tetzlaff plays the Berg.
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/OperaShare/message/27818

(It's a long "message"--look for concert #18)

FWIW...

Dirk

Thanks, Dirk!  Will investigate...I suspect he will come out with a studio version at some point.  He clearly loves the piece. 

I also would love to hear Kavakos do this.  I'm a relatively recent Kavakos convert, but he is a superb player and I can well imagine he would be fantastic in this piece.

--Bruce

[Bunny]

If you are ever desperate, I have an off-air recording of him playing the piece (25th August 2005 at the Proms in London). I am a great fan of Kavakos's playing.

He really is some fiddler!  On stage he has great presence; and the sound of his violin -- just ravishing.  I only hope that I have another chance to see and hear him live.

[Rabin_Fan]

I only have the Mutter recording, but I heard Leonidas Kavakos do the piece with Eschenbach and the Philadelphia SO, and brilliantly too.  I'm hoping he gets to record it, if not with Eschenbach, then with any of the other orchestras he's been performing with.

Kavakos's live Berg VC version was on a BBC Music Magazine - a few years old issue.

[BorisG]

Szeryng/Kubelik.

[Rabin_Fan]

I have the Szeryng/Kubelik LP & CD.

[Iago]

Will somebody please explain to me just what there IS to like in Berg VC?

I find it to be total, unadulterated, NOISE. Without a scintilla of beauty or tunefulness

[val]

To me, the deep emotion but also the perfect articuilation of Karel Ancerl with Josef Suk.

In second place, Grumiaux (with his beautiful sound) and Markevitch.

The worst version I heard? Perlman with Ozawa.

[Rabin_Fan]

Will somebody please explain to me just what there IS to like in Berg VC? I find it to be total, unadulterated, NOISE. Without a scintilla of beauty or tunefulness

The easiest first 8 notes any violin concerto has (G, D, A, E, E, A, D, G) - provided you tuned the violin correctly - no-one can fault your intonation.

[dirkronk]

I only have the Mutter recording, but I heard Leonidas Kavakos do the piece with Eschenbach and the Philadelphia SO, and brilliantly too. 

Perhaps it was this performance?

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/OperaShare/message/19056