The Best of Maxim Vengerov (2007)
performed by
Aleksandr Markovich (piano), Alex Klein (oboe), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Itamar Golan (piano), Maxim Vengerov (violin), Revital Chachamov (piano)
composed by
Alexander Glazunov, Antonin Dvorák, Antonio Bazzini, Camille Saint-Saëns, Carl Nielsen, Dmitry Shostakovich, Edward Elgar, Ernest Bloch, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Waxman, Fritz Kreisler, Henryk Wieniawski, Jean Sibelius, Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch
Even though you get 11 CDs for your $75 here, you don't really get the promised "best of Maxim Vengerov." This box set merely collects a large amount of material from early in the Russian violinist's career -- not in itself a bad thing, for Vengerov was one of the hottest young violinists of the 1990s, with a fearsome technique and a good deal of symphony-hall charisma. The set augments a selection of Vengerov's studio recordings with live concerts, creating a set of materials that would probably be hard to bring together ...
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Even though you get 11 CDs for your $75 here, you don't really get the promised "best of Maxim Vengerov." This box set merely collects a large amount of material from early in the Russian violinist's career -- not in itself a bad thing, for Vengerov was one of the hottest young violinists of the 1990s, with a fearsome technique and a good deal of symphony-hall charisma. The set augments a selection of Vengerov's studio recordings with live concerts, creating a set of materials that would probably be hard to bring together in any other way. But it is only Vengerov's recordings for Teldec that are compiled here. His relationship with that label ended in the year 2000, and he has only kept raising the bar since then -- taking up the Baroque violin (and touring with harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock, who also took up the modern grand piano) and the viola, and delving into more unusual repertoire. On these 11 discs he runs straight up the middle of the violin repertory, with a preponderance of Russian material....
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- Sonata for violin & piano No. 5 in F major ("Spring"), Op. 24
- Sonata for violin & piano No. 26 in B flat major, K. 378 (K. 317d)
- Sonata for violin & piano in F major, MWV Q26
- Sonata for violin & piano No. 9 in A major ("Kreutzer"), Op. 47
- Sonata for violin & piano No. 2 in A major ("Thun"), Op. 100
- Polonaise (No. 1) de concert, for violin & orchestra in D major, Op. 4
- I palpiti, introduction & variations on "Di tanti palpiti" from Rossini's "Tancredi," for violin & orchestra, Op. 13, MS 77
- Légende, for violin & orchestra (or piano) in G minor, Op. 17
- Schön Rosmarin, for violin & piano
- Baal Shem: 3 pictures of Hassidic life, for violin & piano (or orchestra): 2. Nigun
- Souvenir d'un lieu cher, for violin & piano (or orchestra), Op. 42: 2. Scherzo
- Souvenir d'un lieu cher, for violin & piano (or orchestra), Op. 42: 3. Mélodie
- Tambourin Chinois, for violin & piano, Op. 3
- Theme and Variations, for violin & piano, I/10
- Caprice Viennois, for violin & piano (or orchestra), Op. 2
- Caprice basque (Capricho vasco), for violin & piano, Op. 24
- La Ronde des Lutins, scherzo fantastique for violin & piano, Op. 25
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in E flat major (usually transposed to D major), Op. 6, MS 21
- Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, for violin & orchestra in A minor, Op. 28
- Havanaise, for violin & piano (or orchestra) in E major, Op. 83
- Carmen Fantasy, for violin & orchestra
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
- Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 (published as Op. 99)
- Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
- Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82
- Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
- Violin Concerto, FS 61 (Op. 33)
- Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63
- Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 129
- Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
- Sonata for violin & piano No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
- Violin Concerto in A minor, B. 96/B. 108 (Op. 53)
- Sonata for violin & piano in E minor, Op. 82
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