This album was recorded in April 2017 at the Salle Philharmonique de Liège, a venue known for its fine acoustics and used regularly as a recording studio.
Performer Biography
Tobias Feldmann, the violinist on this recording, performs on a violin crafted by Niccolò Gagliano in Naples in 1769.
Composition History
Rautavaara's Violin Concerto was completed in New York in 1977, and its second movement, 'Energico', pays tribute to the 'constantly changing, unending current of sound' of Fifth Avenue.
Composition History
Einojuhani Rautavaara, composer of the Violin Concerto, received a scholarship from Jean Sibelius in 1955, which allowed him to study at the Juilliard School in New York.
Composition History
Sibelius's Violin Concerto was shaped by his unfulfilled dream of a virtuoso career, with the first movement conceived from the perspective of a 'broken-hearted, thwarted violinist'.
Performer Biography
Jean-Jacques Kantorow, the conductor, won ten international prizes between 1962 and 1968, including the Carl Flesch Competition in London and the Paganini First Prize in Geneva.
Composer Biography
Jean Sibelius, the composer of the Violin Concerto in D minor, originally dreamed of becoming a virtuoso violin soloist but his dream was never fulfilled.
