María Dueñas – Honeck & Wiener Symphoniker – Beethoven: Violin Concerto (UHQCD dublu)

Recorded live at the Vienna Musikverein, violinist and composer María Dueñas, born in Granada in 2002, impresses on her debut album with a dazzling interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, peppered with newly written cadenzas for each movement. „Beethoven and Beyond,” recorded together with the Vienna Philharmonic and Manfred Honeck, also includes other pieces for violin and orchestra by Kreisler and Saint-Saëns, among others.

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Lista pieselor

DISC 1

Violin Concerto In D, Op. 61

1. Allegro ma non troppo (Original Version)

2. Larghetto (Original Version)

3. Rondo. Allegro (Original Version)

Symphonie Concertante for Violin, Harp and Orchestra in G Major, WoO 13

4. II. Adagio (Symphonie Concertante for Violin, Harp and Orchestra in G Major, WoO 13)

5. Berceuse, Op. 20

6. Camille Saint-Saens: Havanaise, Op. 83, R. 202

7. Légende, Op. 17 Old Viennese Dances

8. Fritz Kreisler: No. 2, Liebesleid (3 Old Viennese Dances, hierarchy)

DISC 2

1. Cadenzas for the 1st Mvt. of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto by Louis Spohr

2. Cadenzas for the 1st Mvt. of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto by Eugène Ysaye

3. Cadenzas for the 1st Mvt. of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto by Camille Saint-Saëns

4. Cadenzas for the 1st Mvt. of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto by Henryk Wieniawski

5. Cadenzas for the 1st Mvt. of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto by Fritz Kreisler