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7/6/2025, 8:09:50 AM
if anyone has some morbid curiosity, every Amazon community review is unanimous in panning the cadenzas in this recording of Beethoven's Violin Concerto
>For her debut concerto album, violinist Veronika Eberle revisits a work that has endured more than two centuries, and shares a fresh interpretation featuring new cadenzas by composer Jörg Widmann. "May listeners hear the Violin Concerto-in all it's stark radicalism, it's brazen beauty and it's love of experimentation-in a new way with these cadenzas: as contemporary music of today." (Jörg Widmann) Not only is Beethoven's Violin Concerto a particular favorite of Veronika, it has been central to her career to date-most notably alongside Sir Simon Rattle, who has been Veronika's long-time supporter and collaborator. When she was just 16, Sir Simon introduced her at the 2006 Salzburg Easter Festival, where she performed this very concerto to a packed Salzburg Festpielhaus. On this album, the pair reunite to bring this sublime masterpiece to life, and to celebrate the work that first brought Veronika to international attention.
aka the cadenzas were written by a composer trying to do Beethoven-gone-contemporary, so you can imagine how that'll be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_3c6AKU6CY&list=OLAK5uy_mVfZQagAFjTkpu3lPMG50duFgyGBuqs_4&index=1
>Great performance by Eberle, Rattle and LSO, but I do not like the new cadenzas.
> An excellent performance ruined by Jorg Widmann cadenzas
>I was falling in love with this performance, until the first movement cadenza assaulted my ears.
>Long terrible cadenzas destroy the recording.
>Terrible lengthy cadenzas written by contemporary composer Jörg Widmann destroy big parts of the recording. The angular writing, high levels of dissonance, and even the use of clapping clearly become unbearable.
etc
I've been really obsessed with this piece for the last month, as I'm sure some of you have noticed. Most recordings of it are, in fact, mediocre, sadly, so I keep exploring.
>For her debut concerto album, violinist Veronika Eberle revisits a work that has endured more than two centuries, and shares a fresh interpretation featuring new cadenzas by composer Jörg Widmann. "May listeners hear the Violin Concerto-in all it's stark radicalism, it's brazen beauty and it's love of experimentation-in a new way with these cadenzas: as contemporary music of today." (Jörg Widmann) Not only is Beethoven's Violin Concerto a particular favorite of Veronika, it has been central to her career to date-most notably alongside Sir Simon Rattle, who has been Veronika's long-time supporter and collaborator. When she was just 16, Sir Simon introduced her at the 2006 Salzburg Easter Festival, where she performed this very concerto to a packed Salzburg Festpielhaus. On this album, the pair reunite to bring this sublime masterpiece to life, and to celebrate the work that first brought Veronika to international attention.
aka the cadenzas were written by a composer trying to do Beethoven-gone-contemporary, so you can imagine how that'll be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_3c6AKU6CY&list=OLAK5uy_mVfZQagAFjTkpu3lPMG50duFgyGBuqs_4&index=1
>Great performance by Eberle, Rattle and LSO, but I do not like the new cadenzas.
> An excellent performance ruined by Jorg Widmann cadenzas
>I was falling in love with this performance, until the first movement cadenza assaulted my ears.
>Long terrible cadenzas destroy the recording.
>Terrible lengthy cadenzas written by contemporary composer Jörg Widmann destroy big parts of the recording. The angular writing, high levels of dissonance, and even the use of clapping clearly become unbearable.
etc
I've been really obsessed with this piece for the last month, as I'm sure some of you have noticed. Most recordings of it are, in fact, mediocre, sadly, so I keep exploring.
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