Augustin Hadelich: Bohemian Tales

 
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Augustin Hadelich: Bohemian Tales
Augustin Hadelich (violin), Charles Owen (piano), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Jakub Hruša

[ Warner Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 3 July 2020

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"Mr Hadelich increasingly seems to be one of the outstanding violinists of his generation," wrote the New York Times after Augustin Hadelich played Dvořák's Violin Concerto under Czech-born Jakub Hrůša's baton in 2017. Hadelich and Hrůša have now recorded the concerto with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks .

Bohemian Tales pairs the concerto with works for violin and piano by Dvořák and two other major Czech composers of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, Leos Janáček and Josef Suk. The pianist is Charles Owen.

"How warmly his dolce playing seems to smile… Note, too, the way Hadelich suggests a wiry-sounding folk fiddle in the finale's D minor interlude… Jakub Hrůša has the Bavarian RSO playing with vigour and a comparable sense of care…Hadelich and his longtime recital partner Charles Owen transform the last of Dvořák's Four Romantic Pieces, Op 75, into an aching, darkly passionate miniature tone-painting… A superb disc on all counts." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2020

"With Hruša drawing stylish sounds from the Bavarian orchestra - especially the woodwinds - this performance [of the Concerto] sounds idiomatic, irresistibly dance-like in the closing furiant section, yet with an undertow of melancholy that makes Dvořák so distinctive...Hadelich and Owen dash off the most virtuosic of the music here: Four Pieces Op 17, by Dvořák's son-in-law, Josef Suk. Delicious." The Guardian

Tracks:

Antonín Dvořák
1-3 Violin Concerto Op.53
4 Romantic Piece Op.75/4

Leoš Janáček
5-8 Violin Sonata

Josef Suk
9-12 4 Pieces Op.17

Antonín Dvořák
13 Songs My Mother Taught Me Op.55/4
14 Humoresque Op.101/7 (arr. Kreisler)

Dvořák: "Songs My Mother Taught Me" (with Charles Owen)