Nicola Benedetti - Vaughan Williams - Tavener album flac

Vaughan-Williams and Tavener.

Fantasie is the fourth studio album by Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti. Benedetti's fourth album, Fantasie, was released on September 7, 2009. It features the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexei Grynyuk, Vasily Patrenko and Andrew Litton. Fantasie is made up from a selection of well-loved violin pieces that form her fourth violin showcase. The repertoire is varied, ultimately all popular pieces and greatly different from the repertoire on her most recent studio albums.

Music by two English composers graces this pleasing new disc from Nicola Benedetti – Vaughan Williams’s timeless The Lark Ascending and a collection of works by John Tavener, including Lalishri a new work written especially for the soloist. It’s an unusual programme, and makes for an enjoyable and refreshing listen.

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Opening with Vaughan Williams ' The Lark Ascending, Benedetti immediately sets the tone that will prevail throughout the entire album; tone production and emotive output - not technique or power - are the driving forces here. Benedetti 's sound in The Lark is completely hypnotic; supported by the warm, velvety tone of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Litton, this reading of Vaughan Williams ' masterpiece is the most evocative of the poem's text in recollection. Tavener arranged the work for violin (specifically, for Benedetti ) and strings. The remainder of the album contains additional works Tavener composed for Benedetti, each of which feature Tavener 's trademark ethereal qualities, again playing to the strengths of his favored soloist. Anyone looking for some high-quality violin playing with repertoire a little outside the box will not be disappointed by this offering.

Nicola Benedetti: Vaughan Williams/Tavener. October 5 2007, 1:00am, The Times. How do you follow The Lark Ascending? No disc before this latest release from the 19-year-old violinist Nicola Benedetti flies from such earthly bliss to John Tavener’s contemplations of the divine. The journey in theory makes sense, but, in terms of musical quality, Tavener ascending isn’t in the lark’s league. The painful truth crashes home the moment after Benedetti’s bird, so idiomatically accompanied by Andrew Litton and the London Philharmonic, flies into silence and the next track begins

Album · 2007 · 8 Songs. By Ralph Vaughan Williams - Nicola Benedetti, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Andrew Litton. By Sir John Tavener - Nicola Benedetti, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Andrew Litton. 4. Lalishri: Introduction. By Sir John Tavener - Nicola Benedetti.