Williams/ Keulen/ Ndr Radiophilharmonie - Violin Concerto 1 / Viola Concerto / AscendingHere is an album whose contents seem odd as it couples the violin concerto of a (still) Russian composer to the viola concerto of an English one. Instead, the coupling is very clever since Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto, whose premiere was in 1923 (while the composer was still living in France, a few years before his return to Soviet Union) served as a much admired model to Walton's Viola Concerto, whose first performance was played by Paul

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Vanoosthuyse has has a great deal of respect for this humble conductor

the album sets their storytelling to eleven infectious tracks written mostly on piano

The Antwerp cathedral organist Peter Van de Velde gathers almost exclusively world premiere recordings on his new album

widening the expressive range of the genre

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