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Hilary Hahn - Paganini & Spohr: Violin Concertos
Hilary Hahn, violin - Eiji Oue / Swedish Radio Symphony Ochestra
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Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon # 00289 477 6232 GH | Country/Year: Germany 2006
Genre: Classical | Style: Classical Period, Violin

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Hahn musical persona is one of sobriety . . . Her concerts and recitals consist of serious fare, with no concessions to fad or fashion.
Concert Review / David Mermelstein, Los Angeles Daily News / 07. August 2006

Last night Hahn earned a standing ovation for a flawless rendition of Mendelssohn's E minor Violin Concerto. Backed by the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra, she performed effortlessly with speed and energy, her fingers dancing devilishly across the strings . . . Her performances are evidently geared around producing the best possible result, regardless of what other factors are compromised. No beat is missed, no dynamic unnoticed and not once is the orchestra ever undermined by her playing. For her, emotions are conveyed through the music itself and not through exaggerated body language or tossing of hair, which is scraped back at all times.
Miscellaneous / Hazel Davis, Harris Goldsmith, The Strad (Harrow, UK) / 01. November 2006

. . . not just music, but music of the highest order and with deep honor and respect for the composer. Hilary Hahn had pulled it off, just as she had envisioned she could. Hats off to Hilary!! . . . Hahn¿s undeniably sweet tone and fleet technique carry this approach through the entire Paganini concerto and she gives us a fresh look . . . Hilary Hahn gives us a really compelling reading of the Spohr . . . I give a hearty thumbs up to this recording. If you like the Paganini, and I do as music qua music, it alone is worth the price of admission. The Spohr is an important piece, and deserves more attention. Hilary Hahn is proving to be a musical personality in her own right. She deserves all the attention she gets.
Record Review / Max Dudious, Audiophile Audition / 01. October 2006

Paganini's concerto, which opens the disc, is a virtuoso showpiece filled with ricochet bowing, double-stopped thirds and spiraling runs, which Ms. Hahn plays with agile and efortless athleticism . . . Louis Spohr had written several operas by the time he finished his Violin Concerto No. 8 . . . Subtitled "In Moda di Scena Cantate," it takes the operatic theme even more literally. Short and infrequently performed, it is less showy and more serious in tone than the Paganini concerto but even more richly lyrical. Ms. Hahn plays the work with an ideal blend of dignity and stirring and stirring but never saccharine poignancy. The sound of violin in both of these dramatic, operatic concertos is like the ultimate contralto voice, ranging from a rich, throbbing alto through a warm mezzo to a light clear soprano . . . the Swedish Radio Symphony provides polished, robus accompaniment for Ms. Hahn as she sails gracefully through acrobatic passages and unfurls gleaming phrases with sumptuous tone.
Record Review / Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times / 29. October 2006

The sound of her violin in both of these dramatic, operatic concertos is like an ultimate contralto voice, ranging from a rich, throbbing alto through a warm mezzo to a light, clear soprano . . . the Swedish Radio Symphony provides polished, robust accompaniment for Ms. Hahn as she sails gracefully through acrobatic passages and unfurls gleaming phrases with sumptuous tone.
Record Review / Vivienne Schweitzer, The New York Times / 29. October 2006

Miss Hahn can let her hair down, as she does in these concertos, but she never lets her standards down. Her playing is both disciplined and musical. She is clean ¿ always ¿ but passionate. I would call her smartly passionate. Paganini's Rondo is a pure delight. And the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, under Eiji Oue, collaborates admirably throughout the disc. Clearly, Miss Hahn is a complete violinist: She is justly celebrated as a Bach player, and she can trip through showy concertos with the best of them . . . might she compose some pieces for herself to play, one day? Her audience, I think, would be all ears.
Record Review / JAY NORDLINGER, The New York Sun / 30. October 2006

After nearly 200 years Paganini still poses considerable challenges but Hilary Hahn's superior technique surmounts them easily, the highest and fastest passages accomplished with clarity, excellent intonation and no compromise on tonal quality. The notorious double-harmonics episode in the finale (tr 3, 2'00'') sounds so secure and beautiful that I began to suspect double-tracking, but no, all the other problems have been so well solved, there's no reason to believe she can't do it in one go. And Hahn's musicianship is of a high order; we hear the Concerto not as the patchwork of showy tricks and memorable tunes it often seems, but as a well crafted, unified work . . . I can't think of anyone who has excelled Hahn for finesse. Rather than striving to present the soloist as a heroic figure, she's content, with sympathetic orchestral support, to let us hear the concerto as a beautiful, enthralling piece. In the Spohr, Hahn plays the recitative sections with splendid, bold expressiveness, and in the brilliant final movement shows a winning combination of strength, delicacy and lyricism . . . It's an outstanding disc . . . and can only enhance Hahn's reputation.
Record Review / Duncan Druce, Gramophone (London) / 01. November 2006

Hilary Hahn plays the score complete and with such effortless command that the listener might be fooled into thinking that it really isn't all that difficult ¿ believe me, it is! Her legato is seamless, her intonation impossibly true under even the most fiendish pressure, her tone blemishless. Flying spiccato, forced harmonies, multiple stopping, sleight-of-hand arpeggios, rapid string-crossing ¿ all are seemingly child's play to this remarkable young player. Not only that, but Hahn goes beyond mere pyrotechnics, continually phrasing with the kind of sensitivity normally accorded bona fide masterpieces . . . this is easily the finest version of this once-popular work to have emerged since Zukerman's long-deleted account of the early 1970s for CBS. Lively and attentive accompaniments from Oue . . .
Record Review / Julian Haylock, BBC Music Magazine (London) / 01. November 2006

. . . a graceful rendition . . .
Record Review / Russell Platt, New Yorker / 06. November 2006

Hilary Hahn offers a thrilling, yet thoughtful performance . . .
Record Review / Julie Amacher, Minnesota Public Radio / 07. November 2006

. . . while Hahn¿s technique is more securely dazzling than ever, musical considerations come first . . . even the most jaw-dropping passage work has shape and a musical point.
Record Review / The Absolute Sound / 01. December 2006

[Hahn:] . . . 'in these recordings, no passage is meant to impress violinistically at the expense of its musical content.' Hahn certainly has the technique for such an approach: she makes very light work indeed of Paganini's First Violin Concerto's obstacle courses and at no point is virtuosity for its own sake permitted to take the upper hand. Spohr declared himself to have been 'alternately charmed and repelled' by Paganini's playing ¿ there is not much chance of anyone being repelled by Hahn's . . . everything is immaculately done.
Record Review / Carl Rosman, International Record Review (London) / 01. December 2006

Hilary Hahn is one of the hottest of today's young violin superstars . . . there seems to be nothing stopping her from overshadowing the competition in the crowded arena of concert violinists. It's not difficult to understand why Hahn is where she is today. She possesses an immense technical mastery of her instrument coupled with exceptional musicality and eloquence. She plays with a flashiness that isn't all-consuming but carefully balanced with refined expression and wrapped in polished articulation and execution . . . a wonderful recording . . . Hahn makes the virtuosity of the Paganini sound easy, maneuvering her way through the bravura writing with style and grace. She plays it with sparkling brilliance but also manages to effortlessly capture the work's inherent Italian lyricism. Hers isn't an excessive interpretation – rather, it's intelligent, sincere and honest in its expressions and feelings. The Spohr contrasts forcefully with the Paganini . . . Hahn gives a remarkable performance that brings out the mellifluous character of the work wonderfully. Conductor Eiji Oue does a superb job accompanying Hahn. He allows her to shine and offers a fine balance between the soloist and the orchestra. And the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra plays luminously with clean articulation and polished phrasings.
Record Review / Edward Reichel, Deseretnews.com / 11. March 2007

She is certainly one of the brightest stars on the violin scene and she handles Paganini's First Concerto with aplomb ad sweetness in tone. And the Swedish Radio SO under Eiji Oue accompany Hahn well.
Record Review / Tully Potter, Daily Mail (London) / 25. May 2007

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