Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Two Serenades; Two Humoresques; Rakastava Suite


Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Two Serenades; Two Humoresques; Rakastava Suite
Boris Belkin; Vladimir Ashkenazy; Neville Marriner
Label
Decca
Catalogue No.
4669052
Barcode
00028946690529
Format
1-CD
About

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.

TRACK LISTING / ARTISTS

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

Reviews

‘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