While the Reger concerto comes from the end of his career, the Strauss Burleske is a product of that composer’s prodigious youth. This ebullient work has long been a Hamelin ‘party-piece’, and he plays it with an unmatched brilliance which surely captures the essence of this humorous music and will have the listener on the edge of his seat.

Artykuł REGER, STRAUSS R., <br />Piano Concertos <br />Marc-Andre Hamelin <br />Berliner Rundfunk Sinfonie-Orchester <br />Ilan Volkov pochodzi z serwisu Cleartone.

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DAILY TELEGRAPH CLASSICAL CD OF THE WEEK

‚These two products of Russia’s Silver Age go well together on disc … Ilya Gringolts is a fine advocate for both works, combining brilliance and idiomatic sensitivity, and enjoying fine support from Volkov and the BBC Scottish … In short, another superbly conceived and truthfully recorded addition to Hyperion’s Romantic Violin Concerto series‘ (Gramophone)

‚Gringolts‘ fluency, virtuosity and lyrical intensity have been much and rightly admired and this record I’m almost tempted to say is his best yet. He is expertly and sensitively partnered by Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra‘ (BBC Music Magazine)

‚This latest disc of Arensky’s Violin Concerto, superbly played by Ilya Gringolts and the BBC Scottish, sets the seal on a work that merits far more attention than it gets … In some ways it emulates Tchaikovsky’s concerto in its dramatic thrust and the resourceful, Romantic flourish of its solo part … [Taneyev’s Suite de Concert] As this fine performance shows, Taneyev’s legendary thoroughness in his compositional procedures by no means stifled his creative imagination, and the suite fully complements’s Arensky’s concerto in its fund of ideas‘ (The Daily Telegraph)

‚The Arensky is a delicious and unfairly neglected confection … I recommend it to anyone who loves the violin concerto of Tchaikovsky … It’s lots of fun, and Gringolts dispatches the tricky passages with great aplomb‘ (Mail on Sunday)

‚Gringolts is a persuasive champion. He tosses off the acrobatic fretwork with breath-taking ease. His tone can be rich and dark or delicate and shimmering, and remains flawlessly pure at all times. Best of all, he enters into the heart-on-sleeve quality of the music… These inspiring violin works allow Gingolts to display his stylistic versatillity along with his tonal palette and command of the stratosphere‘ (Strings Magazine, USA)

Artykuł TANEYEV, ARENSKY <br />Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.7 <br />Violin Concerto in A minor / Suite de concert, Op 28 <br />Ilya Gringolts <br />BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra <br />Ilan Volkov pochodzi z serwisu Cleartone.

INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW ‚OUTSTANDING‘ AWARD
SUNDAY TIMES CLASSICAL CD OF THE WEEK

‚[Violin Concerto] A lithe, spiky, rhythmical performance, bristling with satire in the Shostakovich style … Every phrase is highly charged … [Double Concerto] Marwood and his viola colleague Lawrence Power prove to be the most outgoing soloists on disc so far … There is an extra spontaneity here that helps give this youthful music a welcome lift. With the rich-toned Power returning to give an eloquent performance of Lachrymae, this disc offers a trio of highly characterful performances‘ (Gramophone)

‚This is a highly distinguished recording, very intelligently planned and exceptionally well executed … Performances which it would be difficult to imagine could be improved on … [Violin Concerto] Magnificently set out for us by Anthony Marwood and Ilan Volkov … [Double Concerto] The performance on this disc by Marwood and Lawrence Power revelas it to be an astonishing achievement as a work of art on several levels … [Lachrymae] The finest performance I have ever heard, live or on disc‘ (International Record Review)

‚[Violin Concerto] A bittersweet, sinuously virtuosic account of a work that repays repeated listening and vindicates Britten’s faith in it … A brilliantly planned, played and orchestrated release‘ (The Sunday Times)

[Violin Concerto] ‚Anthony Marwood makes the best possible case for it in this new recfording … Has the opening Moderato’s edgy lyricism ever sounded so tantalisingly seductive? Marwood goes on to capture the sinewy vitality of the middle movement and, no less brilliantly, the quixotic moods fo the closing Passacaglia, where Volkov’s tensile accompaniments are spot-on‘ (The Financial Times)

‚[Double Concerto] A rarity… Energetic and characterful, and emerges strongly from the performance of the soloists here. But it is quite overshadowed in originality and richness by the Violin Concerto of seven years later‘ (The Daily Telegraph)

‚Anthony Marwood, in one of the most gripping acounts of recent times … careful pacing, agile bow-work and careful tonal manipulation … [Double Concerto] Marwood and Lawrence Power are ideally matched … and they make a convincing case for the concerto … A well-recorded disc, in which Ilan Volkov and the BBC Symphony Orchestra provide bitingly visceral support throughout‘ (The Strad)

‚Marwood is a vivacious soloist in the Violin Concerto and particularly compelling in its magnificent Passacaglia, which is expertly paced … We are left in no doubt about the levels of searing commitment behind Marwood’s performance‘ (BBC Music Magazine)

‚Ilan Volkov’s BBC Scottish SO relish the first movement’s spiky, quirky invention and are a superb foil for Anthony Marwood in the central danse macabre. Britten’s masterstroke was to close the concerto with a haunting large scale Passacaglia, which resolves into a typically ambivalent manner. Marwood’s handling of the closing pages induces shivers, gently rocking between major and minor. It’s a compelling work, and this is a wonderful recording‘ (TheArtsDesk.com)

Artykuł BRITTEN <br />Violin Concerto and Double Concerto <br />Anthony Marwood, Lawrence Power <br />BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra <br />Ilan Volkov pochodzi z serwisu Cleartone.