James Ehnes reviews
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos 7 & 10
James Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano) (Onyx)
Six of the best recordings by violinist James Ehnes
Canadian violinist James Ehnes's finest recordings of violin and viola works by Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Walton and Bartók on disc
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos 4, 5 & 8, etc
James Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano) (Onyx)
Walton: Viola Concerto (1961 version); Sonata for String Orchestra (arr. Walton/Arnold); Partita
James Ehnes; BBC Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner (Chandos)
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3, etc
James Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano) (Onyx)
James Ehnes and the RLPO pay handsome homage to Vaughan Williams
‘The music sounds as rapturously beautiful as ever’
'Highly accomplished accounts of Bartók’s four most approachable orchestral works'
The Bergen Philharmonic and its chief conductor Edward Gardner give highly accomplished accounts of Bartók’s four most approachable orchestral works. Notable in the Concerto for Orchestra is the pianissimo playing, particularly in such moments as the rushing violin passagework at the start of the finale, where many conductors opt for a more upfront sound.
James Ehnes performs violin concertos by Beethoven & Schubert with 'warmth and sweetness'
‘The whole gigantic scheme is serene’, the early 20th-century music analyst Donald Francis Tovey aptly remarked of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. It’s as though the composer had deliberately set out to write a work almost entirely devoid of tension within the essentially dramatic form of the concerto – much as he did for the symphony a couple of years later, with the Pastoral.