Hilary Hahn - Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 8
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Free Music Notes for Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 8
Free Music Review: Incredible violinist!
Hit: 5 Stars
Hilary Hahn is a marketers dream. Beautiful, intelligent (she writes he own liner notes) and, oh yes, plays the violin more technically perfect than anyone else. This recording is another in her growing discography of gems.Free Music Review: I wish I could choose 6 stars
Hit: 5 Stars
Ms. Hahn continues to delight and amaze. This is, of course, a virtuosic piece, and H.H. gives it her usual sensitive, brilliant, flawless reading.Free Music Review: Hilary Hahn - Beautiful CD
Hit: 5 Stars
This is just a great recording. The performance is alive, sparkling and fast. How great to have such a beautiful and gifted performer and backup.Free Music Review: Paganini concerto revisited, with doubts
Hit: 4 Stars
I was curious to listen to the announced Paganini Concerto n.1 by Hilary Hahn.
What can I say: she performs without any harshness the Paganini score, we may say that she performs Paganini in the elegant style of Hubay school, were it not for the slow tempos she takes! What an Hubay pupil, like Vecsey or Geyer, would perform in 29 minutes, Hahn performs in 37!
By the way Aldo Ferraresi,another major Paganini interpreter, performed in 30 minutes.
Paganini is the top of violin music, but it must be performed without pauses and relentnessnesses: difficulties should be concealed! Hahn stops here and there as if she were taking the elan for the incoming effort..
The orchestra accompanyment is, like almost all modern orchestras and contemporary conductors, the less Paganinian one may conceive: abundance of plates and drums flourishings, like a vaudeville band, and scarse attention to the strings sector.
Tha Sauret cadenza, one of the Sauret cadenzas, is smoothly performed.
In conclusion, I feel Hilary Hahn seems more apt to Spohr music than to Paganini.
Free Music Review: Fiddler's fluff, but very elegantly done
Hit: 4 Stars
Hilary Hahn has quickly joined Joshua Bell as a beloved young American violinist. He has two top 20 Cds on amazon's current classical list, and she comes in at #21. This is all the more remrkable because Hahn has risen through nothing but serious music while Bell relies on pop crossover. I know that her fans aren't buying this new CD to hear Paganini, much less Spohr (I own 3,000 Cds, and none are by Spohr). they want Hahn, and they won't be disappointed. Her ability to play Pagnini's fiendish roulades, double stops, and finger-breaking leaps without losing absolute purity of tone is amazing. In musical terms the Paganini Concerto #1 is negligible at best, but as the Amazon reviewer says, fiddlers and audiences love it. My one reservation is that Hahn could give us more panache and dare-deviltry. There's a whiff of politness here that takes Pagnini's fireworks display too seriously. Otherwise, this CD is a delightful reminder of a cherishable artist.