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Recording details: September 2003
Caird Hall, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
Produced by Nicholas Parker
Engineered by Mike Hatch
Release date: April 2004
Total duration: 72 minutes 33 seconds
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'Tasmin Little's flamboyant performance of this breathtaking display piece should be counted a jewel in her already distinguished discography' (International Record Review)
'One of my discs of the year' (Classic FM Magazine)
'Tasmin Little displays an invitingly warm, slender tone and broad dynamic range, very much in keeping with the style of this music. Her intonation and bowing are impeccable: the considerable difficulties of Moszkowski's finale hold no terrors for her' (Fanfare, USA)
'Tasmin Little's idiomatic advocacy of all three works belies the fact that none could be described as standard repertoire ... Handsomely produced and well recorded, this issue makes three very welcome additions to the repertoire' (BBC Music Magazine)
'this disc is yet another jewel in Hyperion's star-studded crown … Enjoyable from start to finish - a disc well worth having' (The Strad)
'This disc is the most impressive installment in Hyperion's Romantic Concerto Series; superb and most beautifully recorded and played' (musicweb)
Violin Concerto in A major, Op 8
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz (1876-1909)
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Movement 1: Allegro moderato
[12'26]
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Movement 2: Romanza. Andante
[7'37]
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Movement 3: Vivace assai
[6'53]
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Violin Concerto in C major, Op 30
Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925)
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Movement 1: Allegro comodo
[15'20]
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Movement 2: Andante
[11'38]
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Movement 3: Vivace
[7'14]
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How much better known might Mieczysl/aw Karl/owicz have become had he not been struck down in his prime by an avalanche. What works do survive place Karl/owicz firmly alongside the ‘progressive neo-Romantics’ – with Wagner and Richard Strauss at their head – and his reputation today is largely based on a set of six symphonic poems composed in the last few years of his life. The Violin Concerto dates from the same period. Karl/owicz places considerable demands on the soloist as he exploits the instrument’s full potential but, as with Moszkowski’s Concerto, the required virtuosity never seems superfluous.
Martyn Brabbins again leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, this time in support of Tasmin Little, whose twenty or so recordings and innumerable worldwide concert appearances have won for her an enviable reputation as one of today’s leading violinists. This is her first recording for Hyperion.
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