Accardo’s performance of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D minor is performed alongside the LSO conducted by Colin Davis
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COMPOSERS: Sibelius
LABELS: Eloquence
ALBUM TITLE: Sibelius
WORKS: Violin Concerto in D minor; Six Humoresques
PERFORMER: Accardo (violin); LSO/Colin Davis
CATALOGUE NO: 482 5097 (1979)
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Accardo’s highly articulate playing and technical poise may lack the charismatic bravado of a Heifetz or Stern in the Concerto, but prove ideal for the poetic sensibilities of the Humoresques. Julian Haylock |
Authors
Julian Haylock is the former editor of CD Review and International Piano Magazines and reviews of CD Classics Magazine. He is also the author of biographies on Mahler, Rachmaninov and Puccini, and co-author of the Haylock and Waugh pocket guides to Classical Music on CD and Opera Music on CD.