Author: Mendelssohn

Release Date: 03-06-2003

Details: Amazon.ca Dazzling works played and recorded abundantly since their creation, the violin concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn have recently found, under the luminous bow of the young Hilary Hahn, a performer at the height of their magic. A reference which seems today, by its insurance and its freshness, to kill any competition. The reading of Viktoria Mullova is distinguished from the outset by her stripping, her rigor, her impeccable phrasing, the perfect regularity of the speech, the absence of the slightest asperity which would come to thwart the accuracy of the text. The total rejection of all sentimentality, all abandonment, all drunkenness marries ideally with the neo-classical perspective of a John Eliot Gardiner anxious to highlight, if not to move, nuances and contrasts to the point of mannerism. It is therefore a real objective approach, a bias that commands respect and is not intended only for an informed public, as it has been shown that the masterpieces of the repertoire are enriched multiple points of view. A pedagogical, almost didactic perspective, which is reinforced, and sometimes goes astray in Mendelssohn, who perhaps suffers more from this intransigent, demanding vision, and therefore, paradoxically, captivating. On the condition of accepting the relative coldness emerging from this reasoned association between the violinist and the conductor, who refuse any concession to showiness and affectation in order to sublimate the transparency of the form, this concert trip reserves many pleasures. --Jean-Chrsitophe Arlon

UPC: 028947387220

EAN: 0028947387220

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood