Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

Great. If you like Huberman you may also find Ida Haendel's take interesting (though I prefer Huberman).

To add to the pleasure  ... The Kreutzer Sonata with Ignaz Friedman [also Polish] is one is also one those once in a lifetime recreations! 

Rarely do I stumble across a performance [in this case two] of music that I love that instantly goes to number one. Certain that the music making goes further than could even be imagined in my dreams, of an ideal for performance. 

The recordings from 1930 [English Columbia - AD Blumlein system - Sonata] and 1934 [fully implemented EMI/Blumlein system - Concerto] are fresher than recordings made half a century later!

For once the state of the art in recording meets the great musical moment of transcendental performance. No tolerance needed for dire ancient recordings in this case!

Very gratifying.

ATB from George

Live radio recording of Huberman playing the Brahms ... to the manner born ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOR6YSByk70

ATB from George

It is a good thing that this is a CD release [ripped in iTunes AIFF] as I have played it enough times to show some wear on an LP over the last few days. 

Rarely does this concerto get up and dance like this. In reality it has the requisite resilience and pace from the very first five drum strokes of the introduction. They must have been brave that it did not then slow down to a lower temperature, but it does not. Staggering. It is surely to Huberman’s disadvantage that he made only a handful of recordings. His legacy was really founding the Israel Philharmonic [originally Palestine Symphony], which arguably a bigger achievement than any purely performing career could ever be. 

Here is a link to the first part of seven called, Orchestra of Exiles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSjEWI-atBw

ATB from George

Anna-sophie Mutter with Karajan DG recording is my favorite. Got him from HDtracks.

Pallie posted:

Anna-sophie Mutter with Karajan DG recording is my favorite. Got him from HDtracks.

I heard this performance right back when it was first issued. I even got the A-S Mutter recording with Karajan [with Meneses] of Brahms Double concerto. I have never ever warmed to any recording with Karajan. Not a single one, not even the Four Horn Concertos of Mozart with Dennis Brain. The Brahms Double was given to a friend who did like it.

But that is me. I know countless people who enjoy Karajan’s artistry! They cannot be wrong to enjoy it! The fact that I do not is neither here nor there.

Best wishes from George

Pallie posted:

Anna-sophie Mutter with Karajan DG recording is my favorite. Got him from HDtracks.

+1

Just buy this one. It's stonkingly good. Trust Wugged. 

Radio 4's and (I think) Classic FM's, record of the year last year, and well received elsewhere too, was a recording of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, and I bought it on the strength of the Radio 4 review. I think it is terrific.

I have two other recordings of the concerto, and I even checked to see whether this new one was faster, because that is sometimes how pieces can seem to acquire a new freshness (the novelty of which soon wears off), but actually this is slightly slower. I've no idea if it will meet with the approval of experts like you lot, but I really like it.

Thomas Gould - Live in Riga

Two reviews:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cul...absolute-winner.html

http://www.theguardian.com/mus...ing-vaughan-williams

He’s only 31. Bastard.