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Brahms & Busoni: Violin Concertos(Hybrid SACD)
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The celebrated violinist Francesca Dego is joined by the
BBC Symphony Orchestra and her regular collaborator
Dalia Stasevska for this recording of the violin concertos
by Brahms and Busoni. A cornerstone of the repertoire,
Brahms's Concerto dates from 1878, a year after the
Second Symphony, and was composed for (and
dedicated to) the virtuoso Joseph Joachim. The
Concerto takes the standard three-movement form,
and as in Beethoven's Concerto (considered by many as
Brahms's inspiration for the work) the first movement is
significant in it's length and it's complexity. Busoni's
Violin Concerto in it's turn is inspired by both Brahms
and Beethoven, and like both previous works it is in the
key of D major. Premièred in Berlin in 1897 by the
Dutch violinist Henri Petri, the Concerto is dazzlingly
virtuosic. Francesca Dego writes: 'To be able to record
Brahms's Violin Concerto is a dream and a milestone for
every violinist and I feel that with "my" Brahms I do not
want to compete with the many gorgeous versions out
there but instead to declare my own love and history
with my favourite violin concerto. Busoni's Concerto,
however, is a rarely performed work, brought to the
studio only a handful of times. It represents a different
kind of responsibility, one that pushed me to want to
rediscover every detail of this music as if it had never
been played before.'
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