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BARBER, S. / KORNGOLD, E.W.: Violin Concertos / WAXMAN, F.: Carmen Fantasie (Gilman, Cape Town Philharmonic, Perry So)

Composer(s):
Artist(s) So, Perry, Conductor • Cape Town Philharmonic OrchestraGilman, Alexander, violin
Period(s) 20th CenturyContemporary
Genre Classical Music
Category Concertos • Film and TV Music • Orchestral
Catalogue OC799
Label Oehms Classics
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
MP3
USD 9.99
 

 

   




Review By Lawrence Hansen,American Record Guide,July 2012

…there is some really fine music-making here.

There are at least three benchmark recordings for the Barber—Stern/Bernstein (Sony), Salerno-Sonnenberg/Shostakovich (EMI), and Oliveira/Slatkin (EMI)—and this new one stands up well against them. I was not spending much time thinking about the others as I listened to Mr Gilman spin out his lovely, expressive tone, especially in II. The Cape Town players dig in with the soloist and produce a warm, full, beautiful tone.

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Review By Robert Maxham ,Fanfare,July 2012

Alexander Gilman produces a glowing tone from his Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin…His generally more relaxed approach doesn’t prevent him or the orchestra from soaring in the climactic moments. Oehms’s engineers have set him just a bit forward, with just enough of the spotlight focused on him to lend him soloistic prominence. He and So take their time in the slow movement without giving even a hint of immobility; in the middle section, his tone grows temporarily as glutinous as Mischa Elman’s. And at last, alchemist Gilman transmutes even the finale’s most mechanical perpetual-motion elements into musical gold.

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Review By Guy Wagner,Pizzicato,April 2012

Korngolds Violinkonzert ist zu einem neuen Hit in den Konzertsälen und auf CD geworden, und es gibt kaum noch ein Violintalent, das diese sinnlich-schöne Musik nicht für den Markt eingespielt hat. Da zudem alle Interpreten heute technisch ‘auf der Höhe’ sind,—was wohl das Mindeste ist—, so ist es vor allem die individuelle, persönliche Auseinandersetzung mit der Musik, die den Hörer mehr oder weniger für sich einnimmt.

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Review By John J. Puccio ,Classical Candor,March 2012

The primary performers on the disc are a young pair of musicians [Alexander Gilman and Perry So]…with enormous talent and potential, who provide the music with a Romantic spirit and youthful vitality. With the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the participants do the music proud.

The program begins with the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14, by the American composer Samuel Barber…It’s surprising that two performers as young as Gilman and So would produce such a relaxed and moving an interpretation…they resisted the temptations and present the music in a most-touching manner, intimate and soaring.

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