Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no 2; Sonata for 2 violins; Violin sonata no 1 / Janine Jansen, violin; Vladimir Jurowski, LPO

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no 2; Sonata for 2 violins; Violin sonata no 1 / Janine

Label: Decca
Catalog No: DEC B001746602
Format: CD
Release Date: 2012-10-16
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 1 hr. 13 min.
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
UPC Code: 028947835462

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Janine Jansen has been a top selling artist since her debut recording in 2004 for Decca having sold 300,000 records. A major star in Europe, especially the Netherlands, Jansen has frequently topped the classical charts and featured in the pop charts.

Jansen is accompanied in the concerto by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under is Russian-born Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. When she played the work with the LPO in London as part o its 2012 "Prokofiev: man of the People?" festival, The Times hailed her as "a violinist who is right now on matchless form... a player that you follow wherever she leads".

Composed in the mid 1930s, on the eve of his return to the USSR, Prokofiev's much-loved Violin Concerto No. 2 boasts the same accessible tunefulness and emotional directness as his enduringly popular ballet Romeo and Juliet, whose love music is ravishingly recalled in the soaring, songlike lyricism of the concerto's slow central movement.

For contrast the concerto is coupled with two chamber works conceived in the same decade: the stark yet expressive Sonata for Two Violins (1932) and the darkly tragic Violin Sonata No. 1 (1938-46), which constitutes the composer's covert memorial to those many friends and colleagues lost during Stalin's Great Terror and the subsequent World War.

For many year Janine Janesen has had a particularly strong rapport with the digital media and has been described as "The Queen of the Downloads... the violinist that classical fans want most of their iPods" by The Independent



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>Prokofiev, Sergei : Concerto for Violin no 2 in G minor, Op. 63
  • Performer: Janine Jansen (Violin)
  • Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski
  • Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Notes: Henry Wood Hall, London (06/21/2012-06/23/2012)
  • Running Time: 26 min. 20 sec.
  • Period Time: Post Romantic
  • Form: Concerto
  • Written: 1935

>Prokofiev, Sergei : Sonata for 2 violins in C major, Op. 56
  • Performers: Janine Jansen (Violin); Boris Brovtsine (Violin)
  • Notes: Teldex Studio, Berlin (06/11/2012-06/14/2012)
  • Running Time: 15 min. 46 sec.
  • Period Time: Post Romantic
  • Written: 1932

>Prokofiev, Sergei : Sonata for violin & piano no 1 in F minor, Op. 80
  • Performers: Janine Jansen (Violin); Itamar Golan (Piano)
  • Notes: Teldex Studio, Berlin (06/11/2012-06/14/2012)
  • Running Time: 29 min. 24 sec.
  • Period Time: Post Romantic
  • Written: 1938-1946