On the road with a violin, a laptop, and a passport... a blog about classical music by a Japan-born German-style violinist, erstwhile musicologist, and former writer for Strings Magazine
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Vadim Gluzman's Barber Violin Concerto
Vadim Gluzman's Barber Violin Concerto recording was featured on BBC Radio 3's best recordings of 2010. The reviewer said the second movement holds its own, while he preferred James Ehnes or Gil Shaham in the outer movements. I can see why: Gluzman's tone is red-hot -- which works in the second movement -- but the outer movements need to burn white-hot, luminous and transcendent. I heard Ehnes live with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2009. He gets my vote.
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