Tanja Becker-Bender

Péter Nagy

Respighi: Violin Sonatas & Other Pieces

I. Lento – Allegro – Assai animato

II. Adagio

III. Scherzo. Allegretto

I. Romanza. Andante mosso

II. Aubade. Vivace

III. Madrigale. Andantino

IV. Berceuse. Lentamente

V. Humoresque. Allegretto vivace

I. Moderato

II. Andante espressivo

III. Passacaglia. Allegro moderato ma energico

IV. Valse caressante. Tempo lento di Valzer

V. Serenata. Andante calmo

Bartók: Works for Violin & Piano

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Garry Walker

German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender returns to the Romantic Violin Concerto series having dazzled the critics with her ‘great lyrical force and tremendous sense of drama’ in her recording of the Reger concerto. Here she appears with Hyperion house band the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Garry Walker, in Volume 16: concertos by Busoni and Strauss, each composer’s only example of the genre.

In D major, the key of Beethoven’s and Brahms’s violin concertos, Busoni’s Violin Concerto is clearly intended to continue their lineage—significantly, Busoni wrote cadenzas for both of them—although it never descends into mere imitation. Although it uses quite a large orchestra, it is transparently scored, with plenty of Italianate cantilena for the soloist. Also included is Busoni’s transcription of the Benedictus from Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, which brings the solo violin to the fore, with instrumental obbligati representing the vocal contributions.

The seventeen-year-old Strauss wrote his Violin Concerto in 1881–2, during his final year at the Ludwigsgymnasium. The work was dedicated to Strauss’s violin teacher Benno Walter (1847–1901), concertmaster of the Bavarian Court Orchestra. The work is fairly unknown on the concert platform; as Tully Potter writes in his booklet notes, Tanja Becker-Bender’s interpretation should win it new friends.

Busoni & R. Strauss: Violin Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto 16)

Trapeze Artists in Blue (1914) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Private Collection / Bridgeman Art Library, London
CDA68014

Recording details: November 2012
Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, Germany
Produced by Ludger Böckenhoff
Engineered by Ludger Böckenhoff
Release date: November 2013
Total duration: 56 minutes 59 seconds

'These new performances prove to be everything that one would wish for in these taxing and often elusive works … A valuable release' (International Record Review)

Hindemith’s Violin Sonatas fascinatingly mirror the various stages in the development of his musical language from the vocabulary of late Romanticism to the monumental, contrapuntal and revivified Baroque idiom of his maturity. They are performed here by virtuoso German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender who has made a speciality of the music of the early twentieth century.

Hindemith: Violin Sonatas

Berliner Sinfonie Orchester

Lothar Zagrosek

Reger is one of those composers more talked about than listened to—caricatured as a prolific writer of organ music with a penchant for dense musical textures. But he certainly wasn’t averse to a good tune: the two Romances abound in lush lyricism, while the magnificent A major Violin Concerto shows him continuing in the tradition of the violin concertos of Beethoven and Brahms. An unashamedly symphonic work, it’s nearly an hour long—around the same length as the nearly-contemporary Elgar Violin Concerto. No less a figure than Adolf Busch championed it—first performing it when he was just sixteen.

The young German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender, who has already made such an impact in Schulhoff and Paganini, is joined by Lothar Zagrosek and the Berlin Konzerthausorchester for this 11th volume in the Romantic Violin Concerto series—a series that is triumphantly demonstrating how much great music there is out there just waiting to be rediscovered.

Respighi: Violin Sonatas & Other Pieces

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