Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 - Hindemith: Violin Concerto Alexandra Tirsu, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Vasily Petrenko

• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975): Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77:
• 1 Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77: Nocturne. Moderato 14:16
• 2 Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77: Scherzo. Allegro 06:22
• 3 Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77: Passacaglia. Andante - Cadenza 15:21
• 4 Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77: Burlesque. Allegro con brio - Presto 04:55
• Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963): Violin Concerto:
• 5 Hindemith: Violin Concerto: I. Mäßig bewegte Halbe 09:46
• 6 Hindemith: Violin Concerto: II. Langsam 11:07
• 7 Hindemith: Violin Concerto: III. Lebhaft 11:28
• Total Runtime 01:13:15

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Die Geigerin Alexandra Tirsu legt ihr Debütalbum mit Konzerten von Dmitri Schostakowitsch und Paul Hindemith vor. Schostakowitschs Musik begleitet sie seit ihrer Kindheit – ihre Atmosphäre spiegelt jene Kriegserzählungen wider, mit denen sie aufgewachsen ist. Das Violinkonzert Nr. 1 entfaltet sich wie eine psychologische Reise: von einem düsteren Beginn über ein wildes Scherzo, eine emotional aufgeladene Passacaglia bis hin zu einem von beißender Ironie geprägten Finale. Hindemiths selten gespieltes Violinkonzert, das Alexandra erstmals beim ARD-Wettbewerb in München erarbeitete, zeigt eine ganz andere Klangsprache: klar, strukturiert und leise expressiv.

Gemeinsam mit dem Royal Philharmonic Orchestra unter der Leitung von Vasily Petrenko eingespielt, fängt dieses Album einen Moment tiefer Auseinandersetzung, persönlicher Identität und emotionaler Verbundenheit ein – durch zwei ausdrucksstarke Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Alexandra Tirsu, Violine
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko, Dirigent

Alexandra Tirsu
is a violinist recognised internationally for her expressive artistry and award-winning performances. 3rd prize and audience-award winner of the prestigious 2021 ARD Competition, the young Moldovan violinist Alexandra Tirsu, who completed her undergraduate studies with Pavel Vernikov in Vienna and Janine Jansen in Sion, is fast gaining recognition as one of the leading violinists of her generation.

A laureate of the 2018 Seoul International Music Competition and 2014 Osaka International Competition, her performances have garnered critical acclaim in publications such as The Strad, Classical Music Magazine, and Süddeutsche Zeitung, among many others.

Her 2022/23 season included collaborations with Sol Gabetta, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Kirill Troussov, Ioana Cristina Goicea, and Richard Galliano, as well as orchestral engagements with the London Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Kiev Virtuosi Orchestra, Pilsen Philharmonic, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic (with immediate re-invitation), the Orquesta Fimarmónica Marchigiana, Incheon Philharmonic and Orquesta Vigo 430. Additionally, she has also performed at the Solsberg Festival, the Crans Montana Classics Festival and Sion Music Festival.

The 2023/24 seasons brings Alexandra to Seoul, Korea, where she makes her debut with the celebrated Korean Chamber Orchestra, the Residence Hall as well her debut in the Isar Philharmonie (Munich) with the Bavarian Youth Orchestra playing Britten Violin Concerto, and Romanian Athenaeum (Bucharest), alongside some of the other halls she has performed in the past seasons, including the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Herkules Saal and Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Seoul Arts Center, the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center and the Beijing Concert Hall.

She has performed under the baton of Semyon Bychkov, Ronald Zollman, Gabriel Bebeselea, Dmitri Jurowsky, among others, and have collaborated with musicians such as Ivry Gitlis, Michael Guttman, Daishin Kashimoto, Alexander Chaushian, Friedrich Thiele, Razvan Popovici, Uto Ughi, Diemut Poppen, Boris Brovtsyn, Vladmir Landsmann, Svetlana Makarova, Levon Chilingirian and Kyril Zlontnikov. An advocate of bringing violin music to wider audiences, she regularly collaborates with the celebrated music-comedy duo Igudesman & Joo.

Alexandra plays the 1717 “Reifenberg” Stradivari, on generous loan through The Stradivari Society. She has been a Thomastik-Infeld artist since 2021.

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