The latest issue of BBC Music Magazine features a special article about Patricia Kopatchinskaja. The acclaimed violinist won the Orchestral Award at the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2010 on Tuesday 13 April. Below are some highlights from the article.
A daring double take on Beethoven proves a winner for the adventurous Moldovan violinist.
When, for her groundbreaking recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Patricia Kopatchinskaja wanted to include the cadenza from the composer’s piano version of the work, the only way to accommodate all the notes on her instrument was to indulge in a little overdubbing in the studio.
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Controversial, possibly. But any offended purists were outnumbered by those who were taken with her approach, including BBC Music Magazine reviewer Erik Levi.
‘Kopatchinskaja manages to bring it off quite brilliantly,’ he wrote in December, adding that the recording ‘must be one of the most stimulating that has ever been committed to disc.’
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This wasn’t tinkering for tinkering’s sake. Kopatchinskaja’s radical take on Beethoven stems from the composer’s own thoughts.
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‘It led to something new – it was almost like a premiere. No longer this monumental piece that you normally hear in the concert hall, but something almost experimental. The violin is no longer the soloist, but becomes like a ghost hovering above the orchestra.’ [says Kopatchinskaja]
You can read the full article in the latest issue of BBC Music Magazine (May 2010).
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