Search - William [composer] Walton, Paul Daniel, English Northern Philharmonia :: Walton: VIOLIN CONCERTO / CELLO CONCERTO

The best cello concerto reading and a wonderful violin conce

Finzi and Barber fan | 12/30/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The CD is one of the finest the Naxos have produced - the playing is sumptuous and the recording superb. All orchestral details are vivid and clear, the soloists's playing wonderfully captured.



Tim Hugh's reading of the cello concerto is probably the best on record. He has tough competition with Piatigorsky and Ma, and recently Muller-Schott, but Hugh finds an ecstasy and a ravishing sense of line and structure that convinces you that Walton might have been right after all in proclaiming this the finest of all his concerti.



The violin concerto is wonderfully played by Kang, beautifully focussed and poised and always perfectly in tune (which goes without saying for Tim Hugh's performance also). I would not say that this was better than Heifetz or the countless others that have recorded it, but it is certainly up there with the best of them.



All in all a stunning disc that gives the strongest advocacy for these two haunted masterpieces."

Excellent!!!

Kenneth | Seoul Korea (South) | 11/29/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Dong Suk Kang's play should be excellent as much as Joshua Bell's. Coupling in this CD is one of the best collections of Walton's concertos."