Violin Concertos

Gramophone and BBC Award-winner Patricia Kopatchinskaja records exclusively for Nave. Releases to date have included Beethoven s Violin Concerto with Philippe Herreweghe, a CD entitled 'Rapsodia' which explores the roots of George Enescu s music with examples of Moldovan and Romanian folk music. Her most recent release was an all-Hungarian disc featuring concertos by Bartk, Ligeti and Etvs which has won the concerto category in the Gramophone Awards 2013. Patricia's high profile in the UK has been enhanced by the recent James Naughtie interview in BBC Music Magazine plus there's a summary of PR activity below. The two violin concertos coupled on this recording display as many affinities as they do divergences. Both stem from creators in conflict with their native Russia one choosing to return there, the other settling permanently in exile; both belong to the aesthetic of the return to order observed from 1920 onwards and characterised by the reappropriation of models from the past. If Prokofiev preserves the traditional bases of the concerto, he combines them with a search for a new lyricism. As for Stravinsky, he reworks tried and trusted models while offering a deliberately neutral, distanced expressivity.