BEETHOVEN / BRITTEN - Violin Concertos • Jansen

BEETHOVEN • Concerto per violino e orchestra
BRITTEN • Concerto per violino e orchestra

JANINE JANSEN, violino
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, London Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Järvi

 
"Janine Jansen has a rare ability to communicate her thought and feelings about the music while appearing to play in a simple, straightforward manner. The small variations of colour, pressure and emphasis that bring this about transmit a sensation of intense inner life. Whereas others may bring a warmer, more sensuous tone to the Beethoven Concerto... this account turns out to be as absorbing and satisfying as any recent recording. The Britten is very well recorded, too. ...Jansen shows the work's more uncomfortable, angular side. The irregular rhythms and sharp contrasts of the central Vivace are... sharply delineated and, towards the end of the concluding Passacaglia, Jansen builds to a painful degree of intensity and desperation."