Bartok: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Composer(s):
Bartok
Works:
Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Performer:
Thomas Zehetmair (violin); Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer
Label:
Berlin Classics
Catalogue Number:
0115292BC
Performance:
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Sound:
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Bartok: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Another disc where the idiomatic orchestral playing is paramount: but Zehetmair matches Fischer in his feeling for the late-Romantic idiom, more overtly in the Second Concerto, and sometimes briskly, but always spot-on musically. Martin Cotton