I have heard of Lola Bobescu for years, but had never heard any of her recordings until now. This rendition of the Violin #22 is one for the ages. She was magnificent. Fame and violin mastery don’t often coexist! She could play circles around many famous violinists today. I look forward to hearing more of her recordings in the days ahead. Thank you for uploading this video!
She's not playing the turns at the beginning as written. She's starting them before the 4th beat. After listening to the first movement, I conclude that this is the best recording of this concerto, far and away, that I have ever heard. Certainly better than Perlman's recording. He probably figured there wasn't any point trying to play it this beautifully.
Je connaissais la version d' Isaac Stern de ce très beau concerto mais pas celle de L. Bobesco. BRAVISSIMO !!! I knew Isaac Stern 's version of this beautiful concerto but not that of L. Bobesco. BRAVISSIMO !!!
The cadenza is pretty nice. Then the Shumsky, Kreisler, Ysaye, and Joachim cadenzas came. It just shows that there's more than just one way to show off technique.
The difference between Viotti, and composers like Mozart and Haydn, is that Viotti sets-up patterns which create expectations which are then fully satisfied, everything happens nicely as expected and suggested. Also the key relationships are just as it is supposed to be. Haydn and Mozart however, set-up patterns and build surprised therein, they deviate from the pattern and then return to it in unexpected ways. This creates much more musical and expressive interest. Excellent composers like Viotti do the expected thing, they follow conventions, but greater musical minds play with the conventions and handle them with much more invention - while the musical language and grammer as such remains the same.
