Bach: Violin Concertos


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Bach: Violin Concertos

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Voted "Best Newcomer" by BBC Music Magazine in 2006 and acclaimed as "Artist of the Year" in the prestigious Classic FM Gramophone Awards only a year later, 25-year-old Julia Fischer is already being hailed as one of the truly great violinists of the 21st century. Julia burst upon the international music scene at the 1995 International Yehudi Menuhin Competition by taking first prize as well as a special prize for "Best Bach Solo Work." It is only natural then that her Decca debut disc should feature Bach--this time the solo and double concertos. Julia is joined by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in these strikingly sophisticated and technically brilliant performances.




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    39 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars JULIA FISCHER's BRILLIANT BACH CONCERTOs: WITH THE A.S.M., January 27, 2009
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    RBSProds "rbsprods" (Deep in the heart of Texas) - See all my reviews
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    This review is from: Bach: Violin Concertos (Audio CD)
    Five WONDERFUL Stars!! Superb performances! Award-winning German violin virtuoso Julia Fischer once again demonstrates her great empathy with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach performing his violin concertos on her Decca debut. Here she records with the vaunted Academy of St Martin in the Fields chamber group with whom she has previously recorded and toured, but this time sans conductor, as Fischer herself ascends to the role of leader. Ms Fischer in an interview says she is "Playing for the people of the 21st Century" and she respectfully puts her stamp on these incandescent performances. The 25 year old Ms Fischer has loved and played Bach from age 4, won the Yehudi Menuhin violin competition at age 11 (with special prize for the Best Bach solo), and most recently she recorded J.S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV... Read more
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    5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Julia Fischer's Bach, October 5, 2010
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    P. Adrian "Adrian" (Arad, Romania) - See all my reviews
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    This review is from: Bach: Violin Concertos (Audio CD)
    The refined musicianship and insightful temperament of the young star violinist Julia Fischer could not avoid anymore recording some of the towering Baroque masterpieces - namely, four concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach with the violin involvement. (She finally did it in London, for DECCA, in 2008 paired by a high-quality chamber orchestra.) Her affinity with Bach's output proves more than a passing interest, a fashionable approach or a mere caprice for showing a different and, of course, modern Bach. Being much more than all these, this rendition by Julia Fischer is the sound expression of a deep understanding, and even empathy, for the vivid yet extremely rigorous Bachian textures, for their spirit shaped in Gothic sobriety and aspiration for highness; for that solemnity interspersed with human feelings such as melancholy, passion, wit, playfulness. For Fischer's playful style mirrors Bach's joyful thoughts of music and his unique manner of building mighty, everlasting harmonies... Read more
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    5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fast but Gorgeous -- Distinctive, Rewarding Disc, September 26, 2010
    This review is from: Bach: Violin Concertos (Audio CD)
    As a previous reviewer noted, Fischer decided to take the outer movements faster than is typical. For me, this meant that, after beginning to listen to the brisk first movement of the D minor Double, it wasn't quite love at first listen. The ear can rebel against what it's not used to. However, I soon came to appreciate Fischer's approach and style, and I became a fan of this disc. I found the E major in particular -- a piece you might think you know all too well -- to be unexpectedly exciting, and, in the slow movement, just gorgeous. The danger with speed on these is that one risks sapping them of their inherent drama and beauty. Some self-consciously period-correct recordings I've heard fall into this trap, and the result is awfully noisy and unattractive. Fischer and her fellow performers, with this non-period recording, avoid this pitfall with perfect precision, balance, and appropriately restrained, just-right sensitivity.

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