Axel Strauss, San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra, Andrew Mogrelia - Kreutzer: Violin Concertos Nos. 17-19 (2010)

Tracklist

01. Violin Concerto No. 17 in G major: I. Maestoso
02. Violin Concerto No. 17 in G major: II. Adagio
03. Violin Concerto No. 17 in G major: III. Rondo
04. Violin Concerto No. 18 in E minor: I. Moderato
05. Violin Concerto No. 18 in E minor: II. Adagio
06. Violin Concerto No. 18 in E minor: III. Rondo: Allegro
07. Violin Concerto No. 19 in D minor: I. Moderato
08. Violin Concerto No. 19 in D minor: II. Andante poco sostenuto
09. Violin Concerto No. 19 in D minor: III. Rondo

Rodolphe Kreutzer’s final three violin concertos are among his greatest achievements as a composer. While handling a Beethovenian orchestra with a craftsman’s sure touch, it is the purity and depth of tone, energetic fire and complete technical mastery required of the soloist that set these works among the most perfect examples of the French violin concerto. Axel Strauss, Professor of Violin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and heard on concert stages worldwide, has been acclaimed ‘an excellent violinist who plays these with wit and verve’ (Limelight). Naxos plans to record all of Kreutzer’s violin concertos.

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