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Brahms: Violin Concerto, Hungarian Dances / Baiba Skride

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Details

Composer
BRAHMS, JOHANNES
Artist
L., Oramo, B., Skride, Skride
Format
CD
Label
Orfeo
Released
May 09, 2012
Catalog #
ORF-C829112
UPC
4011790829227

About

Baiba Skride is not just one of the most sought-after artists when it comes to finding a soloist for one of the great violin concertos. She is also much in demand for chamber music. This makes her ideal for her new recording, her first on the ORFEO label, devoted to the work of Johannes Brahms. It is a highly promising start to our collaboration with this First-Prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 2001. Besides Brahms's Violin Concerto, she here offers his Hungarian Dances in the version for violin and piano made by Joseph Joachim. The long-standing musical partnership of Brahms and Joachim is reflected doubly here, for Joachim was also the dedicatee of the Concerto. Baiba Skride's Brahms interpretations are themselves characterized by happy musical constellations. In Sakari Oramo she has a conductor who is himself a violinist and who offers the appropriate momentum with the Royal Philharmonic in Stockholm. One clearly hears the energy and vigour with which every instrumental grouping plays. Thus the great arch of the work is perfectly formed, from the solo interjections (not just from the violin!) to the symphonic dialogue between the partners. The chamber-music intimacy of the Hungarian Dances could not be achieved more powerfully or more beautifully than in Baiba Skride's tried-and-tested duo partnership with her sister Lauma Skride at the piano. Unhindered by the "pianistic" violin part with its many double stoppings, Baiba develops an ensemble that is in tempo and in its gestures carefully moulded with the piano. The piano may have what is clearly an accompanying part, and Lauma Skride certainly adapts to her sister's playing in an unpretentious manner, but nor is her part understated. The result is a performance of these atmospheric dances that is at times resilient and fiery, at other times melodic, gentle and smooth. They belong just as much to Brahms's art as do the formal stringency and unity we find in his large-scale works - and it is all the lovelier when we find all of this on a single CD recording.

Tracklist 24 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 I. Allegro non troppo 23:49
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro non troppo
    Duration
    23:49
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride
    Ensemble
    Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Sakari Oramo
  3. 2 II. Adagio 09:15
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    09:15
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride
    Ensemble
    Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Sakari Oramo
  4. 3 III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace 08:08
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace
    Duration
    08:08
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride
    Ensemble
    Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Sakari Oramo
  5. Disc 2
  6. 1 No. 1 in G Minor 03:09
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1 in G Minor
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  7. 2 No. 2 in D Minor 02:55
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2 in D Minor
    Duration
    02:55
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  8. 3 No. 3 in F Major 02:05
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3 in F Major
    Duration
    02:05
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  9. 4 No. 4 in B Minor (original in F Minor) 03:48
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4 in B Minor (original in F Minor)
    Duration
    03:48
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  10. 5 No. 5 in G Minor (original in F-Sharp Minor) 02:08
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5 in G Minor (original in F-Sharp Minor)
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  11. 6 No. 6 in B-Flat Major (original in D-Flat Major) 03:19
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6 in B-Flat Major (original in D-Flat Major)
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  12. 7 No. 7 in A Major 01:48
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7 in A Major
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  13. 8 No. 8 in A Minor 03:01
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8 in A Minor
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  14. 9 No. 9 in E Minor 02:07
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9 in E Minor
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  15. 10 No. 10 in G Major (original in E Major) 01:45
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10 in G Major (original in E Major)
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  16. 11 No. 11 in D Minor 03:18
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 11 in D Minor
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  17. 12 No. 12 in D Minor 02:25
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 12 in D Minor
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  18. 13 No. 13 in D Major 01:32
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 13 in D Major
    Duration
    01:32
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  19. 14 No. 14 in D Minor 02:02
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 14 in D Minor
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  20. 15 No. 15 in A Major 02:44
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 15 in A Major
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  21. 16 No. 16 in G Minor 02:52
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 16 in G Minor
    Duration
    02:52
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  22. 17 No. 17 in F-Sharp Minor 03:02
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 17 in F-Sharp Minor
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  23. 18 No. 18 in D Major 01:29
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 18 in D Major
    Duration
    01:29
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  24. 19 No. 19 in A Minor 01:53
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 19 in A Minor
    Duration
    01:53
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  25. 20 No. 20 in D Minor 02:24
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 20 in D Minor
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride
  26. 21 No. 21 in E Minor 01:30
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 21 in E Minor
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride