Two Souls Khachaturian Violin Concerto Barber Violin Concerto Adagio
Simonyan Mikhail Jarvi Kristjan Lso
Two Souls Khachaturian Violin Concerto Barber Violin Concerto Adagio
Simonyan Mikhail Jarvi Kristjan Lso
Catalogue # 4779827
This unusual coupling of the violin concertos by Aram Khachaturian and Samuel Barber, entitled Two Souls, is tailor-made for Mikhail Simonyan’s exciting DG debut. Born in Novosibirsk, Simonyan has mixed Russian and Armenian parentage, but spent his formative years in the US. Simonyan’s close rapport with Kristjan Järvi and his first collaboration with one of the world’s best orchestras, the London Symphony Orchestra, produce an extraordinarily fresh reading of the two concertos.
Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14, Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto in D minor
Mikhail Simonyan (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, Kristjan Järvi
Review
Kate Rockstrom
I love the Khachaturian Concerto for Violin and Orchestra and am not nearly as familiar with the Barber Concerto. Having listened to this new recording from Deutsche Grammophon featuring Mikhail Simonyan as soloist, I don’t think I could image two concertos more dissimilar. Simonyan hails from Russian/Armenian ancestry but studied at Curtis in America for many years. This celebrates the two sides of his life, or as the name suggests his ‘two souls’. I like the contrast of the two works, after the beast of the Khachaturian Concerto we have the mostly lyrical Barber. The playing is decided and strong. I will be very interested to see where Simonyan goes next musically.
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