"The international ensemble presents an excellent, feverishly pulsating recording of the forty-minute work, offering an emotional tour de force that is as finely tuned as is possible with this thematic density," says BR Klassik about the recording, which also includes the piano quintet by Louis Vierne.
Chausson's work has a particularly virtuoso violin part (the dedicatee was the Belgian violin legend Eugene Ysaÿe) and can therefore be considered a violin concerto with chamber music accompaniment.
In view of the line-up of Éric Le Sage, Daishin Kashimoto and the Schumann Quartet, BR Klassik's verdict on the sonically opulent, late-romantic album is: "It doesn't get more international than this. And probably no more beautiful."
Ernest Chausson: Concerto in D major op. 21 for violin, piano and string quartet
Louis Vierne, Piano Quintet op.42
Eric Le Sage, Daishin Kashimoto, Schumann Quartet
Sony Classical, 11953283
Release date: 18/10/2024
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