Britten & Bruch: Violin Concertos
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BENJAMIN BRUCH / MAX BRUCH
Britten & Bruch: Violin Concertos
Kerson Leong (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra; Patrick Hahn
[ Alpha Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 12 May 2023
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On his second album for Alpha Classics, rising star violinist Kerson Leong juxtaposes the Violin Concertos of Bruch and Benjamin Britten. This unusual pairing is a reflection on the journey from one extreme of expression to another. Bruch's In Memoriam is the perfect bridge between them. "The Britten expresses a raw and exposed experience, while the Bruch is comforting and uplifting. After the last few years in which the world has experienced much difficulty and uncertainty due to pandemic, war, and crisis, recording this album in London in January 2021 with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Patrick Hahn was a profoundly cathartic moment. It is in the spirit of catharsis that I offer this album." - Kerson Leong
"it is the coupling of the Britten Violin Concerto (gratifyingly becoming more and more core repertoire these days) which...sets this disc apart…I can't recall a better account of the piece than this." Editor's Choice Gramophone July 2023
"Bruch's First Violin Concerto is a banker that is hard to go wrong with, although it's a struggle to think of a lovelier and more romanticised reading of the slow movement than the one here from Kerson Leong, the Canadian violinist, with the sonorous Philharmonia rising to meet him." Sunday Times
"Leong sets out to capture the concerto's severe beauty and sense of unease right from the start ... it's an unusual pairing with the first concerto by Max Bruch ... The Britten raw and in the now, the Bruch offering spiritual consolation." Record Review
Tracks:
BRITTEN:
Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 15
BRUCH:
In Memoriam, Op. 65
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
