Midori returns to Sydney for a celebration of the violin.
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Midori found fame as a prodigy, playing Paganini at seven and making her New York Philharmonic debut at 11. But even as a mature artist she hasn’t lost her enthusiasm or her intensity. There’s still a spirit of youth that fills her playing, and this concert too.
Mozart and Schubert are represented by virtuoso violin music they wrote in their teens, which makes for a program that darts between the spectacular and the exotic, the vivacious and the captivating. By the time he wrote his great G minor symphony (No.40) Mozart was a grown-up, but he too never lost his intensity of expression. And even Stravinsky, composing in his 60s, keeps a neoclassical twinkle in his eye.
It’s a celebration of the violin in Classical mode for the young and the young-at-heart.
STRAVINSKY Concerto in D for strings (Basel)
MOZART Violin Concerto No.5 (Turkish)
MOZART Symphony No.40
SCHUBERT Rondo in A for violin and strings
Antonello Manacorda conductor
Midori violin
AUDIO PLAYER LISTING
Track 1 – MOZART Symphony No.40: 1st movement
The English Concert directed by Trevor Pinnock
ARCHIV 471 677-2
Track 2 – MOZART Violin Concerto No.5: ‘Turkish’ rondo (3rd movement)
Iona Brown, violin and director, with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields
DECCA 476 2748
Track 3 – SCHUBERT Rondo in A for violin and strings
Arthur Grumiaux, violin, with the New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Raymond Leppard
PHILIPS 442 8290
Audio kindly supplied by Universal Music
Currently available from iTunes: Mozart Symphony No.40