Fantasia / Anne Akiko Meyers, Jarvi, Philharmonia Orchestra
Details
- Composer
- RAUTAVAARA RAVEL SZYMANOWSKI
- Artist
- Meyers, Jarvi
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Avie Records
- Released
- Oct 06, 2017
- Catalog #
- AV2385
- UPC
- 822252238525
About
"A simply outstanding CD." - The Whole Note
Superstar violinist Anne Akiko Meyers is one of today’s most in-demand classical performers. Beloved by audiences around the world, with a reputation for groundbreaking recital programs and important commissions, Fantasia marks her 35th studio album and is one of her most important projects to date. Meyers has been Billboard’s Top Selling Classical Instrumentalist of the year and has had numerous albums reach the Number 1 spot on Billboard’s Traditional Classical Chart. Her latest album captures the rare combination of incredible virtuosity and poetic color with iconic works by Ravel, Einojuhani Rautavaara’s last major work, written for Meyers, and Karol Szymanowski’s sensuous Violin Concerto No. 1. The title track, Fantasia is legendary Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara’s premiere posthumous recording and last major work for violin and orchestra. Ms. Meyers traveled to Finland and worked with the composer on it shortly before he died. Karol Szymanowski’s sensuous Violin Concerto No. 1, dedicated to Polish virtuoso violinist, Paul Kochanski, is a dazzling display of exotic melodies, and Ravel’s iconic Tzigane is a virtuoso showpiece that conjures Hungarian gypsy music, and premiered almost a century ago.
REVIEW:
Meyers also seduces the senses in Ravel’s Tzigane, emphasising the magical essence of its blazing inspiration without the slightest whiff of empty, showpiece bravado. Yet the star item here is Rautavaara’s Fantasia (2015), one of his last works and composed especially for Meyers, who soars aloft with its tender cantabile, shaping its shimmering melodic lines with a profound sensitivity that exerts irresistible pressure on the tear ducts.
– The Strad
Tracklist 5 tracks
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1 Fantasia 13:41
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Fantasia
- Duration
- 13:41
- Composer
- Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Performer
- Anne Akiko Meyers
- Ensemble
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductor
- Kristjan Järvi
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2 Vivace assai 11:35
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Vivace assai
- Duration
- 11:35
- Composer
- Karol Szymanowski
- Performer
- Anne Akiko Meyers
- Ensemble
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductor
- Kristjan Järvi
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3 Vivace scherzando 08:14
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Vivace scherzando
- Duration
- 08:14
- Composer
- Karol Szymanowski
- Performer
- Anne Akiko Meyers
- Ensemble
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductor
- Kristjan Järvi
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4 Cadenza: Vivace 04:39
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Cadenza: Vivace
- Duration
- 04:39
- Composer
- Karol Szymanowski
- Performer
- Anne Akiko Meyers
- Ensemble
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductor
- Kristjan Järvi
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5 Tzigane (version for violin and orchestra) 09:57
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Tzigane (version for violin and orchestra)
- Duration
- 09:57
- Composer
- Maurice Ravel
- Performer
- Anne Akiko Meyers
- Ensemble
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductor
- Kristjan Järvi