Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: CD.01C Sibeliu (Violine) / College 5a - Szene	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

Richard Strauss premiered Sibelius' Violin Concerto and this concerto has enjoyed an unstoppable series of triumphs through the concert halls of the world since. Sibelius came from what was then a Russian province, the Grand Duchy of Finland, and was younger than Strauss by just one year. It is worth noting here that there seems to be a particular affinity for this work among women violinists. The violin repertoire is hardly small, but it tends to be one-sided in the works generally chosen by performers. In her recent CD releases, however, Baiba Skride has endeavoured to offer carefully considered, stimulating programme combinations that can prompt a joy in discovery on the part of her listeners. For Baiba, coming from the Baltic, it was natural both in terms of her biography and her native geography that she would want to place the Violin Concerto by Sibelius in this, his anniversary year, alongside the sole violin concerto by his exact Baltic contemporary Carl Nielsen (1865-1931). And perhaps, above and beyond Baiba Skride s own naturalness of manner, we can also hear a certain worldliness and directness here in her approach to the Sibelius Concerto a work so holy to violinists that allows us to discern a special familiarity with it on her part. Incidentally, both composers were trained violinists who earned their living for a while from their instrument. Skride here also includes Sibelius s two Serenades of 1912/13 for solo violin and orchestra two similarly original examples of his art of composition that are cast in a very different tone and in a smaller-scale genre. Santtu-Matias Rouvali is the July 2015 'Rising Star: Great Artists of Tomorrow' in BBC Music Magazine. Rouvali, now 29, made his conducting debut with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2009, and last season, took over from Hannu Lintu as chief conductor of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra. There, his flamboyant performances and imaginative programming have gone down a treat. "The Latvian Baiba Skride proves a persuasive advocate of both. Benefiting from the expansive orchestral playing of the Tampere PO and their young conductor who clearly have Sibelius in their blood she soars through the difficulties of the solo part with effortless virtuosity and intensity. Less technically demanding, the more extrovert Nielsen concerto gets a winning performance, especially in the cantering allegro cavalleresco and the dancing allegretto scherzando rondo finale. Sibelius s beautiful short Serenades are ideal fillers for the concerto" - Hugh Canning The Sunday Times, 30th August 2015 "Baiba Skride s playing here, and in the Nielsen Concerto, is characterised by a tone that is inherently and unfailingly beautiful ... this is exceptional playing and music-making." - Edward Bhesania The Strad, December 2015