Beethoven

Beethoven

Release Date07 September 2009

Label:Naïve

Synopsis

• Award-winning violinist, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, collaborates with the esteemed Belgian conductor, Philippe Herreweghe, to present a new vision of Beethoven’s complete works for Violin and Orchestra.
• The release offers us fresh insights into Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op.61 based on historical evidence, using period instruments.
• Kopatchinskaja also contributes her own arrangements of Beethoven’s original cadenzas for the piano version.
• The Romances are perfomed here in a simple, lyrical style typical of the slow movements of late eighteenth-century French violin concertos.
• Alongside the Concerto and the Romances, the recordings features the rarely recorded Fragment: an unfinished part of the Concerto in C major.
• Kopatchinskaja’s first CD on Naïve, a recital with Fazil Say, received sensational reviews and was awarded the Excellentia Award of the Magazine "Pizzicato" (Luxembourg), as well as the ECHO-Klassik award 2009.

Artists:
Patricia Kopatchinskaja Violin

Orchestre des Champs-élysées
Philippe Herreweghe Conductor

Listen to excerpts from the release here