Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos

 
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CARL NIELSEN / JEAN SIBELIUS
Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Johan Dalene (violin), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra / John Storgårds

[ BIS SACD / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 4 March 2022

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"Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius, alongside Grieg the two giants in Nordic classical music, were both born in 1865. Both also received their first musical training on the violin, earning valuable insights when it came to writing for the instrument. Their respective violin concertos were composed some six years apart - Sibelius' in 1904-05 and Nielsen's in 1911 - and belong to the most performed works of either composer. They are nevertheless as different from each other as are the artistic temperaments of their makers. While retaining the traditional three-movement concerto form, Sibelius composed something closer to a Late-Romantic orchestral tone poem giving the orchestra unusual prominence. Nielsen on the other hand opted for an unconventional form, reminiscent of the Baroque concerto grosso: the spiky, neoclassical work is nominally in two movements, but with each movement having a slow and a fast section. These works are here performed by Johan Dalene, the Swedish-Norwegian winner of the 2019 Nielsen Competition. The present disc is the 21 year old violinist's third release on BIS, following a recording of the Tchaikovsky Concerto described as 'one of the finest violin débuts of the last decade' in BBC Music Magazine, and an all-Nordic violin-and-piano recital awarded distinctions such as Diapason d'or and Gramophone's Editor's Choice. Dalene is given the expert support of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor John Storgårds, incidentally a violin soloist in his own right."

BBC MUSIC AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - Concerto

"Dalene has a strong command of long evolving lines - crucial in both composers - but he balances that with a fine feeling for 'speaking' phrasing and articulation...The expression can certainly be full-toned and red-blooded, but what I like most of all are his pianissimos: how can tone that's so delicate, fragile almost, also be so full of feeling?" BBC Music Five Stars

"Johan Dalene's playing has about it an aspect of wizardry, much in the way we may imagine the playing of Paganini. Dalene seems to breathe a spark of life into both the Nielsen and Sibelius concertos that transforms them into sentient beings with a spirit and a soul." Fanfare

"For my money, there's no finer coupling of these highly contrasting yet much-associated concertos on record. I suspect the individual performances could well prove superlative for many listeners, too." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2022

Tracks:

Carl Nielsen: Violin Concerto, Op. 33 / FS 61
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47