James Ehnes, BBC Philharmonic & Andrew Davis - Stravinsky: Violin Concerto, Orchestral Works (2024) [Hi-Res]
Artist: James Ehnes, BBC Philharmonic, Andrew Davis
Title: Stravinsky: Violin Concerto, Orchestral Works
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Chandos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 01:09:46
Total Size: 274 / 1.19 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Stravinsky: Violin Concerto, Orchestral Works
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Chandos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 01:09:46
Total Size: 274 / 1.19 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
1. Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, K. 053: I. Toccata. Tempo crotchet = 96 (5:56)
2. Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, K. 053: II. Aria I. Tempo crotchet = 116 - Più mosso - Più lento (4:21)
3. Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, K. 053: III. Aria II. Tempo quaver = 48 - Poco più mosso (5:46)
4. Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, K. 053: IV. Capriccio. Tempo quaver = 120 - Poco più tranquillo (6:22)
5. Stravinsky: Scherzo à la russe, K. 070 (4:07)
6. Stravinsky: Suite No.1, K. 045: I. Andante. Crotchet = 86 - 92 (1:23)
7. Stravinsky: Suite No.1, K. 045: II. Napolitana. Dotted crotchet = 144 (1:22)
8. Stravinsky: Suite No.1, K. 045: III. Española. Dotted crotchet = 54 (1:10)
9. Stravinsky: Suite No.1, K. 045: IV. Balalaïka. Crotchet = 144 - 132 (1:12)
10. Stravinsky: Suite No.2, K. 038: I. Marche. Crotchet = 80 (1:19)
11. Stravinsky: Suite No.2, K. 038: II. Valse. Dotted minim = 66 - [Trio I] (2:22)
12. Stravinsky: Suite No.2, K. 038: III. Polka. Crotchet = 96 (1:09)
13. Stravinsky: Suite No.2, K. 038: IV. Galop. Crotchet = 126 - Trio (2:27)
14. Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, K. 048: I. Naissance d'Apollon (5:21)
15. Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, K. 048: II. Variation d'Apollon (3:08)
16. Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, K. 048: III. Pas d'Action (4:26)
17. Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, K. 048: IV. Variation de Calliope (1:28)
18. Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, K. 048: V. Variation de Polymnie (1:20)
19. Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, K. 048: VI. Variation de Terpsichore (1:35)
20. Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, K. 048: VII. Variation d'Apollon (2:24)
21. Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, K. 048: VIII. Pas de Deux (4:21)
22. Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, K. 048: IX. Coda (Apollon et les Muses) (3:20)
23. Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, K. 048: X. Apothéose (3:36)
One of the foremost musicians of his generation, James Ehnes continues to dazzle audiences around the world. Here he joins the BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis in a recording of Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto. Written for the Polish virtuoso Samuel Dushkin, the four-movement work takes the music of Bach as its inspiration, and is built around a chord of the notes D, E, and A, which Stravinsky described as his ‘passport to the concerto’ and with which the solo violin part opens each movement. Dushkin gave the première, conducted by Stravinsky, in Berlin in 1932. Apollon musagète, a ballet in two parts for string orchestra, was written in 1927 – 28, and demonstrates the composer’s complete rejection of the Russian folk music and idioms that had been so instrumental in his previous ballets (The Firebird, Petrushka). They are replaced by a concentration on ‘pure form’, which became known as his neo-classical style. The album is completed by his two orchestral suites – light-hearted music arranged from piano duets he had written in the 1910s – and Scherzo à la russe, a showpiece for the Paul Whiteman band that he composed in the early 1940s when newly arrived in California.