The violinist Rebecca Hirsch is regarded as among the foremost interpreters in twentieth century music. She appears regularly as a soloist in Britain and throughout Europe, with orchestras including the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the Philharmonia, the Ulster Orchestra, and the BBC Concert, Philharmonic and Scottish Orchestras among many others. She records regularly for Da Capo and Naxos, and two of her recordings were nominated for the GramophoneÂs Best Record of the Year Award.
For Naxos she has recorded both Rawsthorne ViolinConcertos with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, EditorÂs Choice in The Gramophone in October Oct 1988, as well as Britten's Violin Concerto with the same orchestra. Poul Ruders wrote his Second Violin Concerto for her, a work of which she gave the first acclaimed performance and which she recorded for Da Capo in Copenhagen with the Collegium Musicum and Michael Schonwandt. She also gave the world premiÚre of Bent SÞrensenÂs violin concerto Sterbende GÀrten with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Tivoli Hall, Copenhagen. The recording which
followed for Da Capo won the Nordic Council Music Prize. She also recorded for Da Capo Hakon BÞrreson's Violin Concerto with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra. In a live broadcast Rebecca Hirsch gave the world premiÚres of Ian WilsonÂs Second Violin Concerto at the Cheltenham Festival and of a new Violin Concerto by Per NÞrgÃ¥rd, further evidence of her advocacy of new repertoire.
July 2002
