Gil Shaham plays Saint Saens Sonata No 1 (1/3)
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- The first time I ever heard of the name Gil Shaham was bumping into his romances cd at the library, I thought he was a second rate soloist only capable of playing slow lyrical pieces, a few months later I saw his Sibelius cd and I remember thinking this is going to be awful but I was completely wrong, I was blown away with his golden tone, expressive vibrato and ability to speak with every note and have been a big fan ever since. I encourage everyone to check out the tv broadcast someone put up of his performance of the Sibelius Concerto, its really really awesome.
Deutsche Grammophon is a wonderful label producing really awesome sounding recordings of unbelieveabe quality but I still wonder why they dropped Shaham and Mintz but kept Mutter on their label, this confuses and upsets me. They did, however sign Hilary Hahn which has been a good move for them, however she has yet to make a good recording for them IMO, I liked Hahn's recordings before she signed with them for some reason.
I have also said many many times I would rather listen to Saint Saens then Mozart or Beethoven.
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Wow. Simply beautiful.
this reminds me why saint saens and shaham are two of my favorites.
one of my favorite current violinists right now along with Leonidas Kavakos.
I loved his performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto, I think it is perhaps better than the Ferras performance.
His performance of both Williams Violin Concerti was amazing too as well as this sonata.
I like it.
The collaborating pianist in this recording, Gerhard Oppitz, is a star in his own right, but here is a true partner with the violinist. DG engineers have probably helped to ensure a balance between the two, but I'd bet the balance would be just as good in a live performance. Given the density of Saint-Saëns's piano writing, Oppitz is a marvel of restraint and clarity. Always, always one must listen to both performers in a sonata like this. Try 7:30 and just after for an illustration.
But although he is a great violonist, I didn't like his performances of Williams' three pieces from Schindler's list. I think he is very expressive, but this is too harsh (I don't really know how to say it with words), this style fits perfectly for Sibeliu or for Williams concerto, but not for Schindler's list.