Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 Julia Fischer & Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

• Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216
• 1 I. Allegro (Candenza: Julia Fischer) 09:05
• 2 II. Adagio (Cadenza: Yakov Kreizberg) 08:21
• 3 III. Rondeau: Allegro. Andante. Allegretto. Allegro (Candenzas: Sam Franko, Julia Fischer) 06:11
• Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218
• 4 I. Allegro (Candenza: Julia Fischer) 08:31
• 5 II. Andante cantabile (Cadenza: Julia Fischer) 07:08
• 6 III. Rondeau (Andante grazioso) (Candenza: Joseph Joachim) 06:50
• (Cadenza: Julia Fischer)
• 7 Adagio in E major, K. 261 (Cadenza: Julia Fischer) 07:55
• (Cadenza: Julia Fischer)
• 8 Rondo in B flat major, K. 269 06:23
• Total Runtime 01:00:24

Info for Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 and 4

All the works on the first volume in Pentatone’s series of Mozart’s music for violin and orchestra were composed in Salzburg during the mid-1770s. Julia Fischer, still only 22, is responsible for most of the cadenzas (including the thrilling conclusion of the opening Allegro in K218) but her playing is not based on mere pyrotechnics: these performances are full of disciplined subtlety and astonishing interpretative maturity. The G major Concerto, K216, is lush and spirited, the traditional-style performance lacking nothing in warmth. The relaxed, cantabile style of her playing in the final movement serves the dancelike nature of Mozart’s music. In the middle movement of the D major Concerto, K218, the sustained sweetness of Fischer’s high notes is counterbalanced by a pleasing gravity from the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. In fast movements the orchestra does not quite match the spontaneity and immediacy of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, directed by soloist Viktoria Mullova. Yet slower music such as the sublime Adagio, K261 (possibly an alternative middle movement for the Fifth Concerto), is ideally poised on the brink between delicacy and depth.

The recording sound is superb (as one might expect from Polyhymnia, the Dutch team that recorded Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage) and the quality and integrity of Fischer’s playing bode well for future volumes. (David Vickers, GRAMOPHONE)

Julia Fischer, Violin
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
Gordan Nikolic, Concert Master
Yakov Kreizberg, Conductor

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