Gramola Records
Concertos for Violin
$24.99
Details
- Composer
- Georg Breinschmid, Fritz Kreisler
- Artist
- Benjamin Schmid, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Salzburg Wind Philharmonic
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Gramola Records
- Released
- Apr 03, 2026
- Catalog #
- GRAM99350
- UPC
- 9003643993501
About
On the occasion of the 2025 Kreisler anniversary year, the exceptional violinist Benjamin Schmid posed the question: What happens for the violin in Vienna roughly 100 years after Fritz Kreisler? The result is this phenomenal recording with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna under Lorenz Aichner, featuring orchestrated works by Kreisler and the world premiere recording of the Concerto for Beni for Solo Violin and String Orchestra (2023) by Georg Breinschmid, born in Vienna in 1973. To quote the dedicatee, it is a "magnificent violin concerto that, from my perspective, shares much with the musical understanding of Fritz Kreisler: music with unadulterated joy of playing, which devotes itself immediately and as artfully as possible to the parameters of melody, harmonic experience, and dance-like (or groovy) rhythm. There is always a close relationship to instrumental virtuosity and sonority - something very strongly pronounced in both composers." The album includes Fritz Kreisler's Preludium and Allegro "in the Style of Pugnani" and the Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta in arrangements for (string) orchestra. Kreisler's Concerto in One Movement, based on the first movement of Paganini's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 6, is presented here in an arrangement for wind orchestra, recorded with the Salzburg Wind Philharmonic under Hansjörg Angerer.
Tracklist 10 tracks
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1 Praeludium 02:30
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Praeludium
- Duration
- 02:30
- Composer
- Fritz Kreisler
- Performer
- Benjamin Schmid
- Ensemble
- Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
- Conductor
- Lorenz C. Aichner
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2 Allegro 03:14
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Allegro
- Duration
- 03:14
- Composer
- Fritz Kreisler
- Performer
- Benjamin Schmid
- Ensemble
- Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
- Conductor
- Lorenz C. Aichner
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3 I. Allegro moderato 06:27
- Track
- 3
- Title
- I. Allegro moderato
- Duration
- 06:27
- Composer
- Georg Breinschmid
- Performer
- Benjamin Schmid
- Ensemble
- Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
- Conductor
- Lorenz C. Aichner
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4 II. Andante con moto 08:14
- Track
- 4
- Title
- II. Andante con moto
- Duration
- 08:14
- Composer
- Georg Breinschmid
- Performer
- Benjamin Schmid
- Ensemble
- Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
- Conductor
- Lorenz C. Aichner
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5 III. Allegro scherzando 07:49
- Track
- 5
- Title
- III. Allegro scherzando
- Duration
- 07:49
- Composer
- Georg Breinschmid
- Performer
- Benjamin Schmid
- Ensemble
- Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
- Conductor
- Lorenz C. Aichner
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6 IV. Allegro vivace 04:59
- Track
- 6
- Title
- IV. Allegro vivace
- Duration
- 04:59
- Composer
- Georg Breinschmid
- Performer
- Benjamin Schmid
- Ensemble
- Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
- Conductor
- Lorenz C. Aichner
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7 Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta (arr. C. Ehrenfellner for violin and orchestra) 08:20
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta (arr. C. Ehrenfellner for violin and orchestra)
- Duration
- 08:20
- Composer
- Fritz Kreisler
- Performer
- Benjamin Schmid
- Ensemble
- Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
- Conductor
- Lorenz C. Aichner
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8 Allegro maestoso - 07:22
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Allegro maestoso -
- Duration
- 07:22
- Composer
- Fritz Kreisler
- Performer
- Benjamin Schmid
- Ensemble
- Salzburg Wind Philharmonic
- Conductor
- Hansjörg Angerer
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9 A tempo poco meno mosso e molto tranquillo - 06:29
- Track
- 9
- Title
- A tempo poco meno mosso e molto tranquillo -
- Duration
- 06:29
- Composer
- Fritz Kreisler
- Performer
- Benjamin Schmid
- Ensemble
- Salzburg Wind Philharmonic
- Conductor
- Hansjörg Angerer
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10 Cadenza 03:44
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Cadenza
- Duration
- 03:44
- Composer
- Fritz Kreisler
- Performer
- Benjamin Schmid
- Ensemble
- Salzburg Wind Philharmonic
- Conductor
- Hansjörg Angerer