Yehudi Menuhin – The Great Violin Concertos: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bruch [3CDs] (1991) Admirers of Sir Yehudi Menuhin will be pleased to have this compilation of his early stereo recordings of the major…
Judith Ingolfsson & Vladimir Stoupel – Rathaus, Tiessen & Arma: Sonatas for Violin & Piano (2021) The accomplished Duo Ingolfsson-Stoupel is dedicated to the performance of rarities by the exiled composers Karol Rathaus, Heinz Tiessen and…
Dmitry Smirnov – Bartók, J.S. Bach & Schneeberger: Solo Violin Works (2021) Russian violinist Dmitry Smirnov’s début recording on FHR features works by master baroque composer J. S. Bach, a leading figure…
Annette-Barbara Vogel & Durval Cesetti – First Ladies: Three Romantic Violin Sonatas (2021) One could hardly intuit from these fresh and flowing violin sonatas the obstacles their female composers had to face –…
Pavel Šporcl, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Kout – Strauss, Korngold: Violin Concertos (2009) Pavel Šporcl’s two most recent projects have manifested his remarkable stylistic flexibility. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the crossover CD Gipsy…
Lev’s Violin: An Italian Adventure, UK Edition *A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* ‘Utterly enthralling – a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into…
Vasile Anca Caraman – Paganini: 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1, MS 25 (2021) After Paganini and his Caprices (as well as his concerts, obviously for the soloist part), the violin wasn’t the same…
Yevgeny Dokshansky, Enrique Reynosa, Ensemble Next Parallel – Around the World: Trios for Clarinet, Violin & Piano (2021) From the winding orientalism of Khachaturian’s G minor Trio of 1932 to the jaunty Caribbean dance that rounds off Roger…
Gil Shaham, LSO, Andre Previn – Samuel Barber & Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concertos (1994) This sparkling suite for violin and piano came into being when the composer had to adapt his incidental score for…
Tim Fain – Philip Glass: Partita for Solo Violin (2015) [Re-Up] Violinist Tim Fain has worked extensively with minimalist composer Philip Glass in performances and in the preparation of new pieces,…