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Disc Details
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| Title: |
Violin Concerto; A Colour Symphony |
| Ensemble: |
BBC National Orchestra of Wales |
| Soloist(s): |
Lydia Mordkovitch, violin |
| Label Name: |
Chandos |
| Catalogue Number: |
CHAN 10380 |
| Conductor: |
Richard Hickox |
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Reviews
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A fervent […] reading of a substantial concerto. […] Written in 1953-54 for Alfredo Campoli, it’s a meaty, characteristically red-blooded utterance firmly in the romantic virtuoso tradition and well worth getting to know. Bliss intended the finale’s tenderly expansive andante sostenuto introduction to act as a counterbalance to the central Scherzo, while the superbly idiomatic solo part was tailored for Campoli’s golden tone and jaw-dropping spiccato.
Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone Magazine, 01 November 2006
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…the vein of lyricism that runs through the first of its three movements seems much more personal than anything in the [Colour] symphony. Lydia Mordkovitch’s performance is sometimes indulgent, but Hickox makes sure that she is perfectly etched against the orchestral textures that are woven around the solo line.
, The Guardian, 15 August 2006
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