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Corigliano: Violin Concerto "The Red Violin" & Phantasmagoria

11/25/2010, 5 Tracks, 1:00:40

Featuring

  • JoAnn Falletta
  • Michael Ludwig
  • Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
  • John Corigliano Jr.

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Recording & Production

This album was mastered using the 2xHD proprietary system, which involves transferring the original master to analog, processing it through a tube pre-amplifier, and then recording it in DXD.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The Violin Concerto, 'The Red Violin,' utilizes a Baroque chaconne device, a repeated pattern of chords, to tie together its episodic story spanning three centuries.

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Performer Biography

Conductor JoAnn Falletta has received numerous awards, including the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award and ten awards from ASCAP, and serves on the U.S. National Council on the Arts.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The Violin Concerto, 'The Red Violin,' was inspired by John Corigliano's father and written as a piece he would have loved to play, thus dedicated to his memory.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Michael Ludwig, the violinist on this recording, performs on the 'ex Mary Portman, Guarneri del Gesù, 1735,' an antique Italian instrument on loan from the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

John Corigliano, the composer, is the son of a renowned solo violinist and concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, also named John Corigliano.

Source: Booklet

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