Hyperion’s Romantic Violin Concerto series returns with three real rarities, rescuing them from their current neglect. All receive the strongest advocacy from Linus Roth, who plays them like the repertoire standards they may one day become.
‘In the beguiling slow movement [of the Scharwenka] he soars most affectingly above the stave and makes the most of the delightful finale, a movement that I can see becoming popular in its own right’ ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘Roth plays with almost missionary zeal, he and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under Antony Hermus, making a convincing case for these works to be more widely performed’ (The Guardian)
BBC Music Magazine‘Roth plays with almost missionary zeal, he and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under Antony Hermus, making a convincing case for these works to be more widely performed’ (The Guardian)