Bach/Vivaldi Violin Concertos
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Composer or Director: Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi
Label: Philips
Magazine Review Date: 12/1986
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 416 389-2PH

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Concerto for Violin and Strings |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Miss Midori, Violin Pinchas Zukerman, Conductor Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Miss Midori, Violin Pinchas Zukerman, Violin Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Concerto for Violin and Strings, '(Il) sospetto' |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Pinchas Zukerman, Violin Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
(12) Concerti grossi, '(L')estro armonico', Movement: No. 8 in A minor, RV522 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Miss Midori, Violin Pinchas Zukerman, Violin Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Composer or Director: Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi
Label: Philips
Magazine Review Date: 12/1986
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 416 389-4PH

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Concerto for Violin and Strings |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Miss Midori, Violin Pinchas Zukerman, Conductor Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Miss Midori, Violin Pinchas Zukerman, Violin Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Concerto for Violin and Strings, '(Il) sospetto' |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Pinchas Zukerman, Violin Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
(12) Concerti grossi, '(L')estro armonico', Movement: No. 8 in A minor, RV522 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Miss Midori, Violin Pinchas Zukerman, Violin Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Composer or Director: Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi
Label: Philips
Magazine Review Date: 12/1986
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 416 389-1PH

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Concerto for Violin and Strings |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Miss Midori, Violin Pinchas Zukerman, Conductor Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Miss Midori, Violin Pinchas Zukerman, Violin Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Concerto for Violin and Strings, '(Il) sospetto' |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Pinchas Zukerman, Violin Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
(12) Concerti grossi, '(L')estro armonico', Movement: No. 8 in A minor, RV522 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Miss Midori, Violin Pinchas Zukerman, Violin Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Author:
Yet it is difficult (or made difficult) to take such a detached, innocent view of what is happening if Midori's publicity has worked, and she is thought of primarily as the girl who, with two breakages in succession, needed no less than three E-strings (hitched to three different instruments) to complete a live performance, with the composer conducting, of the Bernstein Serenade. Rejecting, as being silly, the solution that she obviously used E-strings worn to near destruction when playing in public, I fancied that as an alternative she might be reverting from today's steel E to the older gut string. The fancy was supported to some extent by the quality of her tone in that register; but no: it has been definitely stated that her own E was not merely steel, but actually steel reinforced by gold-planting. So, a chance misfortune; for the accidents (which she is said to have faced up to calmly) have certainly given her name the prominence which it much more certainly deserves simply on the quality of her playing. For a 14-year-old it is stupefyingly good; indeed, in the two double violin concertos she plays with Zukerman on pretty equal terms. This is an accomplishment restricted, you might say, to only a very few 14-year-olds, girls and boys, Japanese, European, or anything else.
A final footnote for cataloguers: Vivaldi's RV522 Double Violin Concerto used to be known (in the days when at least part of Vivaldi's numbering was comprehensible!) as No. 8 of Op. 8,
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