Violin Concertos

Korngold (Artist), Weill (Artist), Krenek (Artist), Juillet (Artist), Mauceri (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 13, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000042EY
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #415,104 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Decadent Brilliance, December 22, 1999

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M. Friedman (New York Area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Violin Concertos (Audio CD)

I bought this disc on a whim. A fan of 20th-century music, I had heard enough of Korngold's film music to know that I enjoyed his more-romantic-than-mahler-or-strauss style, when I was in the mood for that kind of thing, and I had heard a fair bit of Weill's "serious" music in the past. I really wanted to hear what he could do with a violin concerto.

I was not prepared for the Krenek. It blew me away. Here is the one essential 20th century violin concerto [well, one of them, anyway]. It is both bitter and swet, strident and romantic. It teeters on the edge of dissonance without abandoning the late-19-century german style. It is brilliance.

In fact, the whole disc is brilliant. The performances are flawless, and the recording is superb. I only hope that, performed as they are here, these works will stimulate a renaissance of 20th century music.

5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful....., February 2, 1999

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Jarod ([e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Violin Concertos (Audio CD)

Presented here are three wonderious composers of the Twentieth Century. A wonderful Cd to add to any collection!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very nice, June 15, 2011

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Martin Pitchon "I love classical music" (La Prairie, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
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Wonderful interpretation, but I don't understand why they decided to put these works together. The three of them are entartate music (degenerate) but for different reasons, Krenek is quite different, I bought it because of this latter concerto, I have already had the Korngold concerto and I am not a Kurt Weil fan very much.

Martin