Ferdinand David: Violinkonzerte Nr.4 & 5 on CD

Weltersteinspielung
Ferdinand David, in Hamburg 1810 geboren, war nicht nur Geigenvirtuose, dem Felix Mendelssohn sein Violinkonzert widmete, er komponierte selber einige beachtliche Werke. Der Geiger Hagai Shaham spielt Davids Violinkonzerte gemeinsam mit Martyn Brabbins und dem BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra als Welt-Ersteinspielung! Die Musik Ferdinand Davids erinnert an manchen Stellen an seinen Freund Mendelssohn, ist aber von eigener Eleganz und Ausdrucksstärke.

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Ferdinand David is principally known today as the dedicatee of Mendelssohn’s violin concerto; he gave the premiere of the work in 1845. But in his time he was also celebrated as a composer, and Hyperion is delighted to present this disc of world premiere recordings as Volume 9 in the Romantic Violin Concerto series.

David was a prolific composer and his output included two symphonies, five violin concertos, a string sextet, quartets, several sets of variations and volumes of studies for violin, choral works and some Lieder. His works had considerable success in his lifetime, and their revival reveals highly attractive music of phenomenal accomplishment. Bearing in mind David’s close affinity with Mendelssohn it is hardly surprising that some of his music has a fairly Mendelssohnian character. This extends to the skilful handling of Classical forms with a rather more Romantic palette, but there is also an amiable individual character at work which produces music rich in wit and sentiment.

Hagai Shaham, a regular of this series and a master of the 19th-century virtuoso idiom, performs these works with his usual panache, ably accompanied by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins.

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,,Aber es ist interessant und aufschlussreich, diese konzertanten Werke von David einmal kennen zu lernen. Dabei begeistert vor allem die Leistung von Hagai Shaham, er profiliert sich hier als Virtuose höchsten Grades und setzt damit seine Aufnahmeserie bei Hyperion bravourös fort!" (Fono Forum, 03 / 2011)

'Shaham and the BBC Scottish Symphony (at their most sparkling and sensitive under Martyn Brabbins) play with supreme virtuoso ease throughout … Played like this, these concertos constantly delight with their deft invention. Exemplary sound too' (Classic FM Magazine)

'Sweet melody coupled with passages of virtuosic fire, underpinned with graceful, discreet orchestral writing' (The Observer)

'Hagai Shaham delivers a fastidious and vivacious sympathy to the flow of figures, a real acolyte of an otherwise marginal repertory' (American Record Guide, USA)

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