[ ABC Classics / 2 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Thursday 1 May 2014
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In 1989 the Australian Chamber Orchestra, already perceived as adventurous, took a chance and appointed a very young violinist, barely known to audiences in Australia and beyond, as its Lead Violin (and later, Artistic Director).
Twenty years on, Richard Tognetti is one of the country's pre-eminent musicians and the ACO has the largest subscriber audience of any chamber orchestra in the world.
"…the playing is extremely stylish…one can't fail to be impressed by the air of buoyancy…captures the excitement the works first caused." Duncan Druce, Gramophone on the Bach
CD 1
1
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
I. Allegro con brio from Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Recorded live in The Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, Melbourne on 18 September 2006.
2
ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741)
I. Allegro from Concerto in B minor for four violins, Op. 3 No. 10, RV580
Richard Tognetti, Helena Rathbone, Satu Vanska, Elizabeth Jones violins
Recorded live in City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney on 17 November 2004.
3
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
III. Allegro from Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV1043
Richard Tognetti and Helena Rathbone violins
ABC Classics 476 5691
4
FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
II. Vivace non troppo from Symphony No. 3 in A minor, 'Scottish'
Recorded live at the Huntington Music Festival, Mudgee on 4 December 2002.
5
RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)
Siegfried Idyll
Recorded live in The Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, Melbourne on 18 September 2006
6
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
III. Rondo from Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
Richard Tognetti (violin), Anthony Halstead conductor
ABC Classics 465 4252
7
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) arr. Paul Angerer
'O Gott, du frommer Gott' from Chorale Preludes Op. 122 No. 7
Recorded live at the Huntington Music Festival, Mudgee on 4 December 2004.
8
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
II. Andante from Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041
Richard Tognetti violin
ABC Classics 476 5691
9
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
IV. Allegro con brio e vivace from String Sextet in D minor, Op. 70 'Souvenir or Florence'
Recorded live in the Perth Concert Hall on 5 July 2006
10
TRADITIONAL
Cuckold, Come Out of the Amery
Recorded live in the Perth Concert Hall on 15 November 2006
CD 2
1
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
I. Molto allegro from Symphony No. 40 in G minor, KV550
Recorded live and in session in the Perth Concert Hall, 1998
ABC Classics 465 4252
2 FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
II. Adagio from String Quintet in C major, D956
Recorded live in the Sydney Opera House on 27 May 2002
ABC Classics 476 1026
3
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
'Ach, Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein' from St John Passion, BWV245
Choir: ACO Voices.
Recorded live by Brendan Frost for the ACO in City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney in March 2000
4
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809)
II. Adagio from Violin Concerto in C major, Hob.VIIa:1
Richard Tognetti violin
ACO archival recording
5
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
IV. Alletro vivace from Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Recorded live in City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney on 15 November 2008
6
ROGER SMALLEY (b. 1943)
Footwork (Birthday Tango)
Recorded live in the Perth Concert Hall on 15 November 2006
7
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
III. Andante from Sonata No. 2 in A minor for solo violin, BWV1003
Richard Tognetti violin
ABC Classics 476 8051
8
PETER SCULTHORPE (b. 1929)
Irkanda IV
ABC Classics 454 5042
9
PERCY ALDRIDGE GRAINGER (1882-1961)
Blithe Bells (A Free Ramble on Bach's 'Sheep May Safely Graze')
Recorded live at the Huntington Music Festival, Mudgee on 1 December 2004