BEETHOVEN - Violin Concerto et. al. • Kavakos

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

BONUS: Septet in E flat major, Op. 20 •  Variations on Folk Song, Op. 105 No. 3: A Schüsserl und a Reindl • Variations on Folk Song, Op. 107: No. 1, I bin a Tiroler Bua • Bonny Laddie, Highland Laddie, Op. 107, No. 2 • Peggy's Daughte, Op. 107, No. 6 • Schöne Minka

Leonidas Kavakos, Enrico Pace, Heinrich Braun, Marco Postinghel, Wen Xiao Zheng, Eric Terwilliger, Hanno Simons, Christopher Corbett
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

"With his sweet, powerful tone and technical precision, Kavakos treats the performance as conversation rather than combat, decorating and accompanying as much as leading the musical argument: until, that is, you reach the huge, dazzling cadenza of the first movement, Kavakos’s own transcription of a piano cadenza left by Beethoven. It’s full of hair-raising technical wizardry and requires a bizarre, unearthly exchange with the timpani. He makes the slow movement one long, tender song, the rondo finale lithe and witty. It’s paired with Beethoven’s Septet, Op 20 and, with Enrico Pace on piano, five Variations on Folk Songs."