For her fourth album on Naďve, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja joins forces with composer/conductor Peter Eötvös, and her program of modern violin concertos is marvelously cohesive and direct. The three works by Béla Bartók, Eötvös, and György Ligeti reveal connections in style and substance drawn from a common heritage, built on the rhythms and colors of Hungarian folk music and communicated through innovative orchestration that incorporates extended techniques. Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2 is the most conventional in ...
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For her fourth album on Naďve, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja joins forces with composer/conductor Peter Eötvös, and her program of modern violin concertos is marvelously cohesive and direct. The three works by Béla Bartók, Eötvös, and György Ligeti reveal connections in style and substance drawn from a common heritage, built on the rhythms and colors of Hungarian folk music and communicated through innovative orchestration that incorporates extended techniques. Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2 is the most conventional in layout, following the Classical three-movement, fast-slow-fast format, with the violin placed at the center of activity, in either a virtuosic or lyrical capacity. Kopatchinskaja plays with a passionate expression, though it is delivered in a rough folk-like style that at times approaches gypsy fiddling. Seven, Eötvös' tribute to the seven astronauts lost in the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster, is a series of five cadenzas of different lengths that are elegiac and brooding in...
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