Augustin Hadelich: Recuerdos | Warner 9029631076

Augustin Hadelich: Recuerdos

£13.25

Usually available for despatch within 5-8 working days

Label: Warner

Cat No: 9029631076

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 26th August 2022

Contents

About

A subtle and profound Spanish theme runs through Recuerdos – ‘Memories’. Violinist Augustin Hadelich has conceived an album that unites three works for violin and orchestra and a piece originally written for solo guitar. For Britten’s Violin Concerto, Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no.2 and Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy he is joined by the WDR Sinfonieorchester and its Chief Conductor, Cristian Măcelaru; he remains alone for Ruggero Ricci’s arrangement of Tárrega’s shimmering Recuerdos de la Alhambra. “For years, I’ve been thinking about how to tell the story of the Britten violin concerto,” says Hadelich. Written in 1938, the work expresses the pacifist composer’s anguish at the Spanish Civil War, which broke out just months after Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no.2 was premiered in Madrid.

Reviews

Augustin Hadelich has reappraised all the music here, not least the apparently less consequential 19th-century fare bookending two statements from the 1930s. ... The artistic personality of the soloist feels a size ‘bigger’ than that of rival fiddlers and, as with previous releases, he supplies his own discerning accompanying notes.  David Gutman
Gramophone Awards 2022
Gramophone Editor's Choice

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here