Christian Tetzlaff / John Storgårds - Elgas Ades, VIULUKONSERTTO

Star violinist Christian Tetzlaff, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and conductor John Storgårds perform two significant British violin concertos on this album, written almost a century apart, in 1910 and 2005. Elgar's passionate violin concerto, completed in 1910, is a classical-romantic three-movement violin concerto. This huge and highly emotional work was neglected for several decades in the wake of modernism before it found its way into the concerto repertoire. Here, Christian Tetzlaff follows the model of early recordings of Elgar's concerto with considerably faster tempos than most modern recordings, which greatly affects the impact of the work. Adès's violin concerto Concentric Paths is already a modern classic and undoubtedly one of the most important concertos of this century. Thanks to its highly demanding violin part, the work has all the elements of a genuine concerto, and the soloist can sing with their instrument. The beauty of this music lies in the fact that everything is written so clearly.