Prokofiev: Works for Violin Janine Jansen

• 1 1. Allegro moderato 10:51
• 2 2. Andante assai 09:47
• 3 3. Allegro, ben marcato 06:24
• 4 1. Andante cantabile 02:51
• 5 2. Allegro 03:16
• 6 3. Commodo (quasi allegretto) 04:29
• 7 4. Allegro con brio 05:53
• 8 1. Andante assai 07:20
• 9 2. Allegro brusco 07:03
• 10 3. Andante 07:41
• 11 4. Allegrissimo 07:22
• Total Runtime 01:12:57

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For this release, Jansen is accompanied in the concerto by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under its Russian-born Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. When she played the work with the LPO in London as part of its 2012 “Prokofiev: Man of the People?” festival, The Times hailed her as “a violinist who is right now on matchless form … a player that you follow wherever she leads”

Janine Jansen has been a top-selling artist since her debut recording in 2004 for Decca sold 300,000 records. A major star in Europe, especially the Netherlands, Jansen has frequently topped the classical charts and featured in the pop charts.

Composed in the mid1930s, on the eve of his return to the USSR, Prokofiev’s much-loved Violin Concerto No.2 boasts the same accessible tunefulness and emotional directness as his enduringly popular ballet Romeo and Juliet, whose love music is ravishingly recalled in the soaring, songlike lyricism of the concerto’s slow central movement. For contrast the concerto is coupled with two chamber works conceived in the same decade: the stark yet expressive Sonata for Two Violins (1932) and the darkly tragic Violin Sonata No.1 (1938–46), which constitutes the composer’s covert memorial to those many friends and colleagues lost during Stalin’s Great Terror and the subsequent World War.

". . . her silvery tone and searching musicianship ensure maximum intelligence and beauty . . . simple, unaffected magic . . . [Concerto]: splendidly played by a soloist in happy harness with the London Philharmonic and Vladimir Jurowski, a conductor who understands Prokofiev's changing moods better than most . . . equally gripping accounts of the Sonata for Two Violins of 1932 and the dark and worried Sonata for Violin and Piano . . . Itamar Golan (piano) and Boris Brovtsyn (violin) play with Jansen as if joined at the hip. Whether the music's fiery or delicate, this superb disc, gorgeously recorded, should give lasting pleasure. (Geoff Brown, The Times London)

Janine Jansen, violin
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

Additional musicians:

Boris Brovtsyn, violin
Amihai Grosz, viola
Thorleif Thedéen, cello
Jens Peter Maintz, cello

Itamar Golan, piano



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