The first CD release of these marvellous LP recordings of Sibelius with Vladimir Ashkenazy. There’s ice and fire in Boris Belkin’s performance of the Violin Concerto and the half-lights in the other, lesser known, pieces are admirably captured by both Ashkenazy and Marriner.
JEAN SIBELIUS
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra in D minor, Op. 47
Two Melodies for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 77
Two Serenades for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 69
Boris Belkin, violin
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Rakastava Suite, Op. 14
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner
‘pulses with all the ice-and-fire casting of the work’ Courier Mail
‘one of the fieriest versions of the Concerto ever put to disc’ ABC Classic FM’s 24 Hours
‘sends shivers running up and down the spine’ Sunday Herald Sun