Dmitry Smirnov, Kammerorchester Basel, Heinz Holliger – Lalo: Violin Concertos, Op. 20 & Op. 29. “Concerto Russe” (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Dmitry Smirnov, Kammerorchester Basel, Heinz Holliger – Lalo: Violin Concertos, Op. 20 & Op. 29. “Concerto Russe” (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:21 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prospero Classical

This new album of the Basel Chamber Orchestra shows references between French and Russian music at the end of the 19th century. Dmitry Smirnov interprets the 1st and 4th violin concertos by Édouard Lalo. The latter is called “Concerto russe” because it contains songs from the folk song collection op. 24 by Rimsky-Korssakoff. Smirnov has now arranged these songs himself for chamber orchestra or for violin and orchestra. Presented in this context, the songs add an extremely interesting new note to the musical bridge-building. Musical direction: Heinz Holliger.

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Dmitry Smirnov – Bartók, J.S. Bach & Schneeberger: Solo Violin Works (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Dmitry Smirnov – Bartók, J.S. Bach & Schneeberger: Solo Violin Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 58:48 minutes | 2,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © First Hand Records

Russian violinist Dmitry Smirnov’s debut recording on First Hand Records features works by master baroque composer (Johann Sebastian Bach), a leading figure of 20th century music (B’ela Bart’ok) and a wonderful newly discovered work by influential Swiss violinist Hansheinz Schneeberger who died in 2019. The Schneeberger’s Sonata, written two years before Bart’ok’s Sonata, is a violin show piece, displaying much imagination in its idiomatic and virtoustic violin writing – this is the first recording of the work. There are many connections that link these three works together – the Bart’ok and Schneeberger Sonatas show influences of Bach. Also, Bart’ok’s First Violin Concerto was premi`ered by Schneeberger. On this album Smirnov plays a modern violin made by Philipp Bonhoeffer (Bart’ok and Schneeberger) and a 1795 Johann Sch”onfelder violin (Bach).

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