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Britten: Violin Concerto; Double Concerto; Lachrymae

CDA67801

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Playing time: 64'18"
Tracks: 7
Booklet pages: 16
© 2012 Hyperion Records Ltd
Reviewer: Robert Anderson
Review of Britten: Violin Concerto; Double Concerto; Lachrymae published on 27 March 2012

Listen: Britten: Allegro scherzando (Double Concerto) (track 6, 0:58-1:56)

Anthony Marwood, violin (1736 Carlo Bergonzi)
Lawrence Power, viola (c1610 Antonio Brensi)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Kanako Ito, leader
Ilan Volkov, conductor

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976):

Violin Concerto Op 15 (1938-9, revised 1950, 1958 and 1965)
1 Moderato con moto
2 Vivace - Cadenza -
3 Passacaglia: Andante lento (un poco meno mosso)

Double Concerto in B minor (1932) for violin, viola and orchestra (edited by Colin Matthews)
4 Allegro non troppo -
5 Rhapsody: Poco lento -
6 Allegro scherzando

7 Lachrymae (1950, orchestrated 1976) Reflections on a song of Dowland for viola and orchestra, Op 48a

Recorded in City Halls, Glasgow on 12 and 13 January 2011

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