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Tetzlaff, Storgards, Helsinki Philharmonic - Shostakovich: Violin Concertos 1 & 2 (2013)

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Tetzlaff, Storgards, Helsinki Philharmonic - Shostakovich: Violin Concertos 1 & 2 (2013)

Tetzlaff, Storgards, Helsinki Philharmonic - Shostakovich: Violin Concertos 1 & 2 (2013)
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Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog Number: 1239

Ondine's successful partnership with violinist Christian Tetzlaff continues with a new release. The new recording contains the two Violin Concertos by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), two powerful works by the composer originally written for David Oistrakh. Christian Tetzlaff has been considered as one of the world's leading international violinists for many years, and still maintains a most extensive performing schedule. Musical America named him "Instrumentalist of the Year" in 2005 and his recording of the violin concertos by Mendelssohn and Schumann, released on Ondine in 2011 (ODE 1195-2), received the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik". Tetzlaff's recording of the Mozart Violin Sonatas (ODE 1204-2) was chosen Gramophone Magazine's Editor's Choice and Recording of the Month by the BBC Music Magazine. Tetzlaff's previous release on Ondine featuring the Schumann Violin Sonatas (ODE 1205-2) was also chosen Disc of the Month by the Gramophone Magazine.

The two Violin Concertos by Shostakovich, written in the 1940s and 60s, belong to the composer's most powerful and most personal works, yet they are very much different from each other. Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 was written during a wave of Anti-Semitism in Soviet Union and premiered only after Stalin's death. Violin Concerto No. 2 is a grand example of Shostakovich's late period including quotes from Shostakovich's earlier works. David Oistrakh described the concertos: "I have played Shostakovich's magnificent Violin Concertos in many countries with the greatest pleasure. But they really are very different from one another: I would be hard put to find anything that they have musically in common."

Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer: Christian Tetzlaff
Conductor: John Storgårds
Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

Reviews: Unlike those two great pairs of 20th-century violin concertos—the Prokofievs and the Szymanowskis—no one other than their dedicatee has ever suggested that the two Shostakovich violin concertos are works of equal quality. The notes of this Ondine recording reprints David Oistrakh’s frequently quoted assessment: “I have played Shostakovich’s magnificent Violin Concertos in many countries with the greatest pleasure. But they really are very different from one another: I would be hard put to find anything that they have in common.” He certainly got that last part right. While the Second Concerto may not be what its detractors have always claimed it is—“ Babi Yar without the laughs”—it is still a very hard slog for most people, which may explain why, in the world’s concert halls, it’s rarely the piece that follows the Haydn Symphony to conclude the first half of the evening.

Christian Tetzlaff is one of those thoughtful, probing musicians in the grand tradition of Jacques Thibaud, Joseph Szigeti, and (especially) Adolf Busch, the latter once aptly described as “a very great musician who happens to play the violin.” A big, melting tone and buckets of virtuosity are meaningless to a player like Tetzlaff. His goal always seems to be to penetrate as deeply into the heart of music as possible by sorting out its structural challenges; its emotional issues are a comparatively lesser concern.

In the First Concerto, Tetzlaff’s pointed, logical approach works best in the darkest moments of the opening Nocturne and in the grieving Passacaglia, whose anguish Tetzlaff invests with a dignity that many violinists completely miss. He’s also extremely impressive in the more reflective passages of the great cadenza which leads into the boisterous finale. It sounds precisely like what the composer undoubtedly intended: a lonely, shaken survivor of the Great Purge and the Great Patriotic War quietly muttering to himself. In the concerto’s more aggressive passages, Tetzlaff’s tone takes on a harsh, slightly raspy quality—not necessarily a bad thing—and while he’s able to negotiate the countless brutally difficult moments with ease, there’s clearly something missing. And what the performance lacks is the astounding security heard in Vadim Repin’s Erato recording—he gives you the impression that after the nightmare ordeals of the cadenza and “Burlesque” he could easily toss them off again—or the humanizing warmth of David Oistrakh, who makes even the ugliest moments seem beautiful, inevitable, and right.

Perhaps it was only Oistrakh who could make the Second Concerto seem reasonably convincing. Aided by the beautifully considered accompaniment provided by Storgårds and the Helsinki Philharmonic, Tetzlaff certainly tries his best, but as usual the Second comes off as not much more than a warmed-over version of the First, coupled with that growing and understandable bitterness that would make so much late Shostakovich something less than an unalloyed delight.

Tracklisting:

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77
1. I. Nocturne: Adagio 00:11:01
2. II. Scherzo: Allegro non troppo 00:06:41
3. III. Passacaglia: Andante 00:13:24
4. IV. Burlesca: Allegro con brio 00:05:02
Violin Concerto No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 129
5. I. Moderato 00:13:50
6. II. Adagio 00:10:09
7. III. Adagio - Allegro 00:08:02

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