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Bach: Violin Concertos, BWV 1041-1043; Oboe and Violin Concerto.


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 1041-1043; Oboe and Violin Concerto. Hilary Hahn Hilary Hahn (born November 27, 1979 in Lexington, Virginia) is an American Grammy Award–winning violinist. Biography
Hahn began playing the violin one month before her fourth birthday in the Suzuki Program of Baltimore’s Peabody Conservatory (Sony Bio).
, violin; Jeffrey Kahane, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) is a 40-member American chamber orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, praised by the music critic Jim Svejda as "America's finest chamber orchestra."[1]. . DG B0000986-02.

This one should be up for some kind of "Best of the year" award. At least, it is from me. With only a minor reservation about the sound, I can recommend the disc with almost complete assurance.

Perhaps because Ms. Hahn was relatively young when she recorded these pieces at age 23 in 2002-03, she was able to bring to them a youthful vitality that is sometimes missing in the performances of older artists. Yet the vitality in no way suggests immaturity or reckless abandon Reckless Abandon is an episode of The WB drama series, Charmed. Synopsis
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. Indeed, it brings to the works a contemporary feeling, making them sound as though were written in and for our own era. All three of Bach's familiar Violin Concertos are made to sound new again through Hahn's lively, spirited, yet thoughtful interpretations. If the Violin and Oboe Concerto A number of concertos (as well as non-concerto works) have been written for the oboe, both as a solo instrument as well as in conjunction with other solo instrument(s), and accompanied by string orchestra, chamber orchestra, full orchestra, band, or similar large ensemble.  seems a bit more conservative by comparison, it is no less persuasive.

Bach's three Violin Concertos are led off on the album by the most popular of the group, the E Major, BWV 1042, with its well-known opening movement running along as briskly yet as attractively as I've ever heard it. Of course, all three of the Violin Concertos begin with showstopping opening movements, followed by sublimely beautiful slow movements, and concluding with brash brash (brash) heartburn.

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, often overexuberant finales. I've never cared much for those finales, but even here Ms. Hahn brings a delightful sense of fun to the occasion, and she's splendidly accompanied by Jeffrey Kahane and the strings of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

My only quibble QUIBBLE. A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety; a cavil.
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 is about the depth of the sound, which is nil. The instruments are pretty much strung out along a straight line from left to right, with little sense of the group's size or shape. Otherwise, the sound is warm, smooth, well defined, incredibly well-balanced, and easy on the ear. For a modern recording of these Bach works played on modern instruments, this may be the best current choice, eclipsing Grumiaux's old Philips recording in sound quality and almost everybody else in performance.
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