Joseph Joachim was the intellectual among the nineteenth century's violin virtuosi, the one who premiered Brahms and favored the long line over sheer pyrotechnics. The Violin Concerto in the Hungarian Style, Op. 11, heard here was his second concerto for violin and orchestra. It has received various recordings, including a fine one from Christian Tetzlaff. It is a Brahmsian work with a lengthy orchestral introduction interrupted by solo work before the first theme is restated. German violinist Suyoen Kim, the winner of a ...
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Joseph Joachim was the intellectual among the nineteenth century's violin virtuosi, the one who premiered Brahms and favored the long line over sheer pyrotechnics. The Violin Concerto in the Hungarian Style, Op. 11, heard here was his second concerto for violin and orchestra. It has received various recordings, including a fine one from Christian Tetzlaff. It is a Brahmsian work with a lengthy orchestral introduction interrupted by solo work before the first theme is restated. German violinist Suyoen Kim, the winner of a 2006 violin competition in Hannover, does well with the long arcs of momentum in the 26-minute first movement, and her clarity of tone is nicely displayed in the middle Romanze, something of a breather between the two large outer movements. She is zippy enough as well in the "Finale alla zingara," but the chief reason to pick this disc from the old musical city of Weimar over its competition would be the presence of the rarer Violin Concerto in one movement in G minor, Op. 3. This...
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