Elizabeth Wallfisch, The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman - English Classical Violin Concertos (1996)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:04:00 | 323 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: CDH55260
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:04:00 | 323 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: CDH55260
The intervening dozen years since I reviewed Hyperion’s initial release of four English Violin Concertos (66865, 20:2) may not have witnessed a surge of interest in these works; nevertheless, the panache that Elizabeth Wallfisch brought to them in her recording sessions in January 1996 has hardly paled with the passage of time. These violinist-composers, contemporaries of Viotti and Mozart, wrote in an Italianate style, with woodwind splashes (all four concertos include oboes and horns, and Linley’s adds flutes as well) that enhance the kind of concertante symphonic sound which Paul Stoeving noted in Viotti’s concertos.














