LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

 

Violin Concerto, Romances, Fragment Concerto

 

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 61

Romance No.2 for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 40

Romance no.1 for Violin and Orchestra in G major, Op. 50

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, wo05 fragment (original manuscript version)

 

Patricia Kopatchinskaja - violin

 

Orchestre des Champs-Elysées / Philippe Herreweghe

 

Award-winning Moldovan violinist, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, presents a new vision of Beethoven’s complete works for violin and orchestra. She is accompanied by the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées under the direction of esteemed Belgian conductor, Philippe Herreweghe. 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 contributes her own adaptations of Beethoven’s original cadenzas for the piano version of the concerto. The Romances are performed here in a simple, lyrical style typical of the slow movements of late 18th-century French violin concertos. Alongside the Concerto and the Romances, the recording features the rarely recorded Fragment: the only known part of an unfinished Concerto in C major.

 

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