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Julius Röntgen - Violin Concertos (Liza Ferschtman)


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Composer: Julius Röntgen
  1. Violin Concerto in A minor: I. Allegro ben moderato
  2. Violin Concerto in A minor: II. Lento
  3. Violin Concerto in A minor: III. Finale. Allegro non troppo
  4. Ballad for Violin & Orchestra
  5. Violin Concerto in F sharp minor: I. Moderato
  6. Violin Concerto in F sharp minor: II. Andante tranquillo
  7. Violin Concerto in F sharp minor: III. Allegro capriccioso

Liza Ferschtman, violin
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
David Porcelijn, conductor

Date: 2011
Label: cpo


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Review

The ‘Röntgen Edition’ arrives at the concertos for violin

Leipzig-born Julius Röntgen (1855-1932) was nothing if not prolific, his output of well over 500 works incorporating no fewer than 21 symphonies composed when he was a septuagenarian. All three concertante pieces on this disc were written after Röntgen had settled for good in the Netherlands (and where, in 1913, he was appointed director of the Amsterdam Conservatory).

In the A minor Concerto (1902) Röntgen’s writing for the solo violin is consistently idiomatic and there are some felicitous touches of orchestration. Stylistically, there are echoes of numerous figures, among them Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, Elgar, Grieg, Sibelius and Nielsen. More worrying, though, is the comparative dearth (to my ears, at any rate) of truly distinctive melody. Indeed, the most striking idea is a piquant harmonic sequence that initially appears at 5'12" in the first movement and crops up again periodically throughout the rest of the work. A likeable find, none the less, as is the 1918 Ballade, a 15‑minute essay of (again) no mean fluency and imagination. The F sharp minor Concerto was written very swiftly in the last full year of Röntgen’s life and bears a dedication to the charismatic Hungarian virtuoso Jelly d’Arányi (the lucky recipient of Ravel’s Tzigane and Vaughan Williams’s Violin Concerto). Its Andante tranquillo centrepiece contains much that is genuinely haunting but the concerto as a whole is let down by a disappointingly humdrum opening movement and fluffy, inconsequential finale.

The performances under David Porcelijn’s watchful direction are wholly admirable; soloist Liza Ferschtman responds with both keen poetry and pinpoint accuracy. Sound and balance are also first-rate, and CPO supplies copious booklet-notes. However, as I’ve already intimated, the music itself is not really out of the top drawer.

-- Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone

More reviews:
ClassicsToday  ARTISTIC QUALITY: 9 / SOUND QUALITY: 9
https://www.thestrad.com/r%C3%B6ntgen-violin-concertos-in-a-minor-and-f-sharp-minor-ballad/4626.article
http://www.classical-cd-reviews.com/2011/06/rontgen-violin-concertos-liza.html
https://www.amazon.co.uk/R%C3%B6ntgen-Violin-Concertos-Julius/dp/B004R7WGPO

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Julius Röntgen (9 May 1855 – 13 September 1932) was a German-Dutch composer of classical music. Born a gifted child in Leipzig, Röntgen's first piano teacher was Carl Reinecke. He move to Amsterdam in 1877, and became a naturalized Dutch citizen in 1919. Röntgen's works include 25 symphonies, concertos (7 piano concertos, 3 violin concertos, 3 cello concertos, other concertos), as well as numerous chamber, piano and vocal works. He also completed Grieg's unfinished String Quartet No. 2. Röntgen also harmonized and arranged traditional Dutch melodies used as hymn tunes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_R%C3%B6ntgen

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Liza Ferschtman (born 1979 in Hilversum) is a Dutch classical violinist. She received her formal training from Herman Krebbers at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Ida Kavafian at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and David Takeno in London. Ferschtman has appeared as a soloist with virtually every Dutch orchestra, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philhamonic, collaborated with conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Christoph von Dohnányi, Iván Fischer and Neeme Järvi. Her recordings, such as Beethoven's Concerto and Romances, were received with great critical acclaim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liza_Ferschtman
http://www.lizaferschtman.com/

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