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• Ruth-Esther Hillila; Barbara Blanchard Hong (1 Jan 1997).. Greenwood Publishing Group. Michael Allsen.. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Archived from on 4 May 2009. • Andrew Barnett (2007).. Yale University Press.

More Kavakos Sibelius Violin Concerto videos. Armcad 2005 A10. Masterclass: Leonidas Kavakos on the Sibelius Violin Concerto. Leonidas Kavakos’s masterclass explains how to do it justice.

• Andrew Barnett (2007).. Yale University Press. • Francis Shelton (2008).. Retrieved 5 May 2016 •.

Retrieved 5 May 2016 • ^., 1935–39 External links [ ] •: Scores at the (IMSLP) Videos [ ] • Sibelius Violin Concerto played by:,,,,. Accompanied by the Montreal Symphony. • shlomo Mintz-Baden Baden visual recordin/Esso Pekka Salonen-conductor • played by Polina Borisova.

Accompanied by the Samara State Philharmonic Orchestra. • Sibelius Violin Concerto, played.

Selected comparisons Hearing these two new versions of the Sibelius Violin Concerto prompts the question: is it the last of the great Romantic concertos or the harbinger of a darker, more disturbing 20th-century tradition? Jennifer Pike’s account stresses beauty of tone, with elegant phrasing and a smooth, precise technique that makes light of all the virtuoso challenges. She benefits from exceptional recording quality, the violin in natural balance with an accompaniment whose individual instrumental colours appear clearly within the spacious ambience. Augustin Hadelich, by contrast, is closely recorded, with an overall sound that places clarity above creating the impression of a resonant concert hall. His performance, scrupulously following Sibelius’s dynamic marks, stresses the almost desperate, passionate character of much of the music; in his intense commitment he reminded me of Camilla Wicks’s celebrated 1952 recording. In the finale, his playing has tremendous energy, and though he certainly does not eschew beauty of tone – for instance in the enunciation of the Adagio’s melody – one always feels that emotional expression is at the heart of his performance.

Jennifer Pike appears a little more detached. It’s lovely playing, with a range of expressive colouring, and many of the quieter moments have an evocative power missing in the Hadelich account. But, forced to choose, I’d go for Hadelich; he gives us Sibelius without any gloss or varnish.