Concertos for Violin

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Label
Gramola Records
Release Date
April 3, 2026
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Georg Breinschmid, Fritz Kreisler
    • PERFORMER
      Benjamin Schmid, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Salzburg Wind Philharmonic
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 03, 2026
    • UPC
      9003643993501
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GRAM99350
    • LABEL
      Gramola Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Crossover
    Works ⌄

    1. Praeludium

      Composer: Fritz Kreisler

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Benjamin Schmid

      Conductor: Lorenz C. Aichner

    2. Allegro

      Composer: Fritz Kreisler

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Benjamin Schmid

      Conductor: Lorenz C. Aichner

    3. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Georg Breinschmid

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Benjamin Schmid

      Conductor: Lorenz C. Aichner

    4. II. Andante con moto

      Composer: Georg Breinschmid

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Benjamin Schmid

      Conductor: Lorenz C. Aichner

    5. III. Allegro scherzando

      Composer: Georg Breinschmid

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Benjamin Schmid

      Conductor: Lorenz C. Aichner

    6. IV. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Georg Breinschmid

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Benjamin Schmid

      Conductor: Lorenz C. Aichner

    7. Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta (arr. C. Ehrenfellner for violin and orchestra)

      Composer: Fritz Kreisler

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Benjamin Schmid

      Conductor: Lorenz C. Aichner

    8. Allegro maestoso -

      Composer: Fritz Kreisler

      Ensemble: Salzburg Wind Philharmonic

      Performer: Benjamin Schmid

      Conductor: Hansjörg Angerer

    9. A tempo poco meno mosso e molto tranquillo -

      Composer: Fritz Kreisler

      Ensemble: Salzburg Wind Philharmonic

      Performer: Benjamin Schmid

      Conductor: Hansjörg Angerer

    10. Cadenza

      Composer: Fritz Kreisler

      Ensemble: Salzburg Wind Philharmonic

      Performer: Benjamin Schmid

      Conductor: Hansjörg Angerer


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 Hansj�rg Angerer.