Sunday, May 24, 2015

#kew2015 Queen Elisabeth competition on Spotify Elisabethwedstrijd Reine Elisabeth

May 25th, the final of the Concours Reine Elisabeth 2015, violin this years, starts again. 
For me, the competition was my first connection with classical music, as in Amsterdam we could receive Belgian television, and the strange, convention laden competition was a fascinating alien experience for me those days… ;-) 

The rich history of this event has been documented on a 4 CD box, refreshingly NOT with all winners, but with performances that captured the spirit of the competition, best, even when the participant made it to second or third place. Hope you enjoy this selection as well!

As spotify does not contain the proper metadata, a little service for you ;-) 


-Pjotr Iljitsj Tsjaikovski
Violin concerto op.35 in D Major
Vadim Repin, Russia, 1st prize 1989
Orchestre National de Belgique
Georges-Elie Octors, conductor

-Jean Sibelius
Violin concerto op.47 in d minor
Nikolaj Znaider, Danmark, 1st prize, 1997
Koninklijk Filharmonisch Orkest van Vlaanderen
Marc Soustrot, conductor

-Edward Elgar
Violin concerto op.61 in b minor
Gidon Kremer, Latvia, 3rd prize, 1967
Orchestre National de Belgique
René Defossez, conductor

-Nicolò Paganini
Violin concerto No 1 op.6 in D Major
Philippe Hirshhorn, Latvia, 1st prize, 1967
Orchestre National de Belgique
René Defossez, conductor

-Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin concerto op.61 in D Major
Kristof Baráti, Hungary, 3rd prize, 1997
Koninklijk Filharmonisch Orkest van Vlaanderen
Marc Soustrot, conductor

-Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Violin concerto op.64 in e minor
Miriam Fried, Israel, 1st prize 1971
BRT RTB Symfonieorkest
Daniel Sternefeld, conductor

-Dmitri Sjostakovitsj
Violin concerto No 1 op.77 in a minor
Yossif Ivanov, Belgium, 2nd prize, 2005
Orchestre National de Belgique
Gilbert Varga, conductor

-Béla Bartók
Violin concerto No 2, BB.117, Sz.112
Barnabás Kelemen, Hungary, 3rd prize 2001
Orchestre National de Belgique
Gilbert Varga, conductor




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