Mendelssohn / Ivakhiv / Kuchar: Concerto for Violin - COMPACT DISCS

Mendelssohn / Ivakhiv / Kuchar: Concerto for Violin - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Concerto for Violin Artist: Mendelssohn Ivakhiv Kuchar Label: Brilliant Classics Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5028421957333 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2019 11 01 Number of Discs: 1 The child Mendelssohn developed extraordinarily rapidly after progressing, apparently late in 1819, from imitative student exercises to composing his own music. Over the next two years he tackled increasingly ambitious large scale works, including a number of

Title: Concerto for Violin
Artist: Mendelssohn / Ivakhiv / Kuchar
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5028421957333
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-11-01
Number of Discs: 1

The child Mendelssohn developed extraordinarily rapidly after progressing, apparently late in 1819, from imitative student exercises to composing his own music. Over the next two years he tackled increasingly ambitious large-scale works, including a number of string symphonies, a Singspiel, and his first concerto, in A minor for piano, written early in 1822. The Concerto for Violin and Strings in D minor followed later that year, and the Concerto for Violin and Piano, again in D minor, in the spring of 1823; the latter was also initially accompanied by strings only, but Mendelssohn later added parts for wind and timpani, in which version it is heard here. Even between these two concertos one can hear a striking advance in the young composer's sense of originality and mastery. The Violin Concerto draws on Classical-era models such as Mozart, but it is also influenced by French innovations in violin writing developed in Mendelssohn's own time, and fully exploits the evolving techniques of new virtuosos. Among them was Eduard Rietz, Mendelssohn's teacher, the work's dedicatee, still a teenager himself and yet leader of the Berlin Court Orchestra. There is much dazzling filigree writing here but also some deeply expressive modulations which convey an emotional maturity far beyond what one could expect from a 13-year-old composer. Dating from six months later, the Double Concerto is an even more polished work, full of memorable melody, no less brilliant in it's solo writing but astonishingly confident in it's handling of material indebted to Bach, to Mozart and Beethoven and somehow none the worse for all that The Ukrainian violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv is now based in the US, where she works as both a soloist and a teacher, including Head of Strings at the University of Connecticut. She is fluently partnered here by Antonio Pompa-Baldi, who has performed and recorded much of the supremely challenging late-Romantic repertoire: a favorite performer at keyboard festivals such as Rarities of Piano Music in Husum, he is also a member of the piano faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

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