Notes and Editorial Reviews
"Kavakos clearly generates a real rapport with the players. His account of one of the most hackneyed works in the violinist's repertoire achieves the near impossible of sounding fresh and original - there's an urgency and nervous energy about Kavakos's playing that's vividly communicated to the orchestra."
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The Guardian UK, [08/07/2009]
"There are over 60 recordings of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in the catalogue, but this version from Greek virtuoso Leonidas Kavakos certainly stands out among them. This is not the drooping, chastely melancholy concerto portrayed by some players like Viktoria Mullova, this is a virile, full-blooded piece. The fleet-footed dance of the finale has fire as
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well as grace, and the slow movement has numerous tiny inflections of tempo and phrasing which imbue the melody with urgent feeling.
Kavakos also directs his own Camerata Salzburg orchestra, which is alert to his every twist and turn. The concerto is coupled with Mendelssohn’s trios for piano, violin and cello, and if anything these are even more impressive. Pianist Enrico Pace is fabulously fleet-fingered in the scherzos, but again a deeper, weightier Mendelssohn is revealed, beyond salon grace and elfin lightness. The players even managed to make the saccharine slow movement of the First Trio seem genuinely moving."
- Ivan Hewett,
Telegraph UK, [08/17/2009]
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Works on This Recording
1.
Concerto for Violin in E minor, Op. 64 by Felix Mendelssohn
Performer:
Leonidas Kavakos (Violin)
Conductor:
Leonidas Kavakos
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Camerata Salzburg
Period: Romantic
Written: 1844; Germany
2.
Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in D minor, Op. 49 by Felix Mendelssohn
Performer:
Patrick Demenga (Cello),
Leonidas Kavakos (Violin),
Enrico Pace (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1839; Germany
3.
Trio for Piano and Strings no 2 in C minor, Op. 66 by Felix Mendelssohn
Performer:
Patrick Demenga (Cello),
Leonidas Kavakos (Violin),
Enrico Pace (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1845; Germany
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